Windows Search randomly crashing

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Recently windows search started randomly crashing on me, the only consistent crash I can ID is entering a search query then emptying the query, this causes a crash every time.

I'm running on the windows insider program, version 21343.1000.


The event on crash is:

Faulting application name: SearchApp.exe, version: 10.0.21343.1000, time stamp: 0xb1d62dc9
Faulting module name: SearchApi.dll, version: 10.0.21343.1000, time stamp: 0xec10c16c
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000001a49bb
Faulting process id: 0x658
Faulting application start time: 0x01d729b60a53b867
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchApp.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchApi.dll
Report Id: e65af1a0-f3a2-419f-8e5d-83676e58acef
Faulting package full name: Microsoft.Windows.Search_1.16.0.21343_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Faulting package-relative application ID: CortanaUI​

I have:

• Disabled Cortana
• Deleted and repaired the SearchAPI.dll file
• Restarted Windows search
• Disabled bing search
• Checked windows update
• Reindexed my search
• And Run SFC
• Using a friend's SearchAPI.dll

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