Windows Search service fails to start: Error 5: Access is Denied

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February 17 in Windows 11

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Posted February 17

Hello, At some point in the last few month I started encountering an error on my two Win 11 VMs running under VirtualBox (fully updated). My symptoms appear while I'm in Explorer, When I click on any folder or file Explorer hangs. Eventually it clears. But if I click again it hangs. I currently don't have Win 11 installed on a base system, so I have been reluctant to update my host system from Windows 10.After extensively tearing my VM apart (and trying just about everything I've found online, including SFC, DISM, repair install, full install) I have found that the hangs is correlated with the

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