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Mike,
Thanks for that link. I had had difficulty separating direct instructions in this TenForums thread from advice relating to the third-party utilities that were so frequently referred to.
One of my three computers was having the Cortana high CPU problem after KBKB4512941 CU. It stayed at over 90% usage after every reboot until I killed it repeatedly in Task manager every time [the number of End tasks varied between 3 & 7 for no reason that I could understand]. I once let it run for about 6 hours after a reboot just to see if it would calm down on its own but it did not.
After setting the value BingSearchEnabled to 1 and rebooting, the problem disappeared completely.
It is a pity that the author of that otherwise valid & certainly effective article uses his own terminology. Perhaps the author is Humpty Dumpty.
- What he refers to as an "address" is a Registry key
- What he refers to as a "Registry key" is a "Value name" or commonly "Value" or just "Item"
- What he refers to as a "Value" is a "Value data" or commonly "Data"
So the procedure is -
1 Open the Registry using RegEdit & give Admin permission if requiredC:\Windows\System32\regedt32.exe2 Go to the required Registry key by pasting this into the RegEdit address barHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search3 Double-click on the Value nameBingSearchEnabled4 In the Value data input box enter 1 then click on OK
5 Close RegEdit and restart the computer
Denis
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but I don't think my mom or dad, brothers & sisters, Joe & Bob will download 3rd party software to block updates. That's my point, if this update is forced to the average user while still having a pretty bad issue causing high CPU spikes. 
