Submenu missing from Windows 10 Search - search

I recently upgrade Windows 10 from 1903 to 1909, I found the submenu in the Windows has changed like below.
Comparison between 2 systems on 1909 and 1903
Is this expected? or is this related to some System Settings?
PS: I checked the UAC config. Both are the same level: "Default - Always notify me when ..."

This issue was resolved.
I overwrite installed Windows 10 1909. It took almost 24 hours.
The re-installation has fixed many small issues as well.
A guess was the recent Windows Update had broken many basic functions, re-installation has updated/overwritten the broken files then fixed the issues.

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installing Oracle 12c client

I am trying to install Oracle 12c client on my development box running Windows 10 and it doesn't even start.
I downloaded the files from Oracle download web site, ran setup.exe and it flashes briefly and nothing happens. I made sure latest JRE and JDK are installed.
I have spent most of the day googling but most deal with errors that occur during installation whereas I can't even start the installation! No errors, no messages. Checked GAC on off chance DLLs might be there but they are not.
I have used the same set of files on other machines and servers (Windows 2008r2 and 2012r2) without any issues but can seem to be able to troubleshoot this one. Any ideas to put me on the right path is appreciated.
After spending a couple of days trying to figure out the issue, uninstalling/reinstalling JRE and JDK and all that, the issue turned out to be the hard drive size. Apparently max dive size where you install the client is 2TB and mine was 3TB. I had to shrink the drive and it worked after that. Hopefully it saves someone some pain.
A couple of links for more info.
Installing on large disk
Oracle Universal Installer

PhpStorm and latest Windows 10 updates

I have latest (as at 2 Oct 2016) version on PhpStorm and with the latest Windows 10 updates. I have it complaining about not enough memory (it has 1GB allocated) and starting and stopping with no messages to the screen.
It started 2 days ago with the latest bug updates to Windows 10. I have even re-installed the latest version from their site.
Anybody else experiencing this?

Slow IIS on local Windows 10 PC

I've been running IIS over the years, on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7.
Since I moved to Windows 10, I've been having lots of problems with IIS running slowly.
I have a clean install of Windows 10 on my PC, not a previous Win7 version upgraded to Windows 10.
These are the versions:
Windows 10 Version 1511 (OS Build 10586.420)
Internet Information Services (Version 10.0.10586.0)
I have tried all sorts to fix this issue, such as editing my hosts file to this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Or commenting that line out.
I've tried running as:
127.0.0.1/mysite instead of localhost/mysite
I've tried tweaking various settings on the ApplicationPool, as per reading I've done on StackOverflow and the web in general.
There is nothing in the Event Log to do with errors or problems being flagged up.
However, a lot of the time page refreshes take over 1 minute to complete, which makes local development very slow.
The issue is the same on Chrome, Firefox, IE and Edge browsers.
I just re-installed Windows 10 and had the same issue again.
My IIS files sit outside of the wwwroot folder, in the c:\data folder. The localhost site was running painfully slow again.
This time, I fixed it by giving Read access to IUSR, NETWORK SERVICE and IIS_IUSR when right-clicking the folder and going to Properties > Permissions - e.g. for NETWORK SERVICE:
After that I restarted the IIS server and it sped up a lot.
This isn't how I fixed it last time though, but I can't remember how I fixed it them - so putting in this fix this time before I forget it!

Failed to create imageSource from the text '..\Images\Medium.png

I recently migrated windows 8.1. But unable to open vs2013/vs2012 new Project template.
IT was working fine in windows 8.
ERROR: Failed to create imageSource from the text '..\Images\Medium.png'
Tried all options but did not succeed.
Please HELP
This is because you migrated from windows 8 to windows 8.1
First Go to Control Panel --> Check Updates for Windows 8.1
Install All Important Updates
Restart Your Pc
All things will properly work..
I tried almost every solution I found.
I would like to share, what I have tried and did not work and what did work and solved the problem.
Here are the "solutions" which did not work for me but claimed that they worked for some people.
1) Removing FastPictureViewer Codec Pack (which was already not installed)
2) Having a modify permission to everyone for
c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\config\machine.config
and
c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v4.0.30319\config\machine.config
3) Using Procmon to see broken registries
4) Uninstalling/reinstalling VS13 and all shared packages
5) Renaming the machine.config.default to machine.config
6) Running Visual Studio as an administrator
And this what it solved it:
Simply installed all the updates for windows 8.1 (not only the important ones, also optional updates as well) and restart. It sounds crazy after spending hours and hours but that solved my problem.
Good luck!
I tried all the steps mentioned above and it did not work. Even I was not able to uninstall VS.
I reapaired .NET framework through Contrl Panel->Programs and Features-> Microsoft .Net Framework-> right click Chane/Uninstall Repair .Net Framework.
This solved the problem.
I got same error after Oracle Data Provider for VS 2013 installation. I installed all Windows 8.1 Important Updates but it didn't work. I read somewhere that it can be happened because of lastly installed VS Add-On etc. then uninstalled Oracle Data Provider for VS 2013 and problem solved.
I am using Visual Studio 2012. This problem occurred to me after I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, so it is definitely related to the OS upgrade.
As some answers say, installing updates for Windows 8.1 will resolve the issue. But you don't need to install everything. I installed only the .NET related updates. Specifically, I installed "Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 for Windows 8.1" (KB2934520), and a few others "Security and Quality Rollup" updates as well.
After a reboot, the "Loading Components" dialog shows up briefly upon launching Visual Studio, indicating that the cache of some components are invalidated and they are compiled again. After that, the "Add Reference" dialog works again.

Sybase - Windows 7

Moving from XP to Windows 7 with client side.
Running into a couple issues with Sybase 15.
1) "Interactive SQL" - many widgets in ie options are defective or missing
2) When running simple query get Swing/AVT widget exception error.
Anyone ran into or worked thru any issues moving to 7?
Other versions of the Windows app, but not 7. As you may be aware 7 is only slightly more reliable than Vista.
Those messages are classically due to (a) Sybase Client (SybaseCentral; InteractiveSQL, the GUI utilities) all using the Java VM and (b) that not being successfuly installed.
Get the Sybase Client CD, and install again. Do not Customise, use the Default installation options. Watch the progress for errors. Ensure the JVM installation succeeds. You may have to retrieve any missing files from the Windows 7 CD.
Otherwise open a Support Case.

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