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Anonymous
2021-12-17T13:22:48+00:00

I am facing a issue with transparent box appearing near the taskbar . I can’t do anything beyond this box which been like a dead area . After restarting it will be okay . But still it appears after a several hours of using.

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  1. _AW_ 67,926 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-12-17T13:31:42+00:00

    Hi, this is a bug with MiniSearchHost in Windows 11. All you can do is temporarily remove the annoyance - open Task Manager, scroll down to Windows Explorer and right click > Restart or expand Search and right click End Task on MiniSearchHost.exe

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-12-17T14:19:35+00:00

    ImageI am facing a issue with transparent box appearing near the taskbar . I can’t do anything beyond this box which been like a dead area . After restarting it will be okay . But still it appears after a several hours of using.

    Hello, Tolstoyjustin

    This is a bug with MiniSearchHost in Windows 11. There is nothing we can do to permanently remove this for now, All you can do is disable it temporarily, follow the steps our friend _AW_ wrote.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-10T19:41:32+00:00

    I have also encountered this really annoying bug. The best permanent workaround I have found is to remove the "magnifying glass" logo from the Taskbar. Right-click Taskbar => "Taskbar settings" => turn off "Search". Going forward you will have to run your searches through the search bar at the top of the Start menu, but I think that is much better than having to constantly disable MiniSearchHost.exe.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-11T20:54:18+00:00

    Yes, I wish I would have never updated to Windows 11. Sometimes it just stops everything.

    Can I permanently disable it in services?

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-11T20:57:16+00:00

    Same problem. Sometimes it just stops my whole computer.

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