Is has to contact the Microsoft servers to display bing advertisements and recommendations for the user. That's why it takes a little while.
Is that a serious response? There's another thread here where they are arguing over whether or not using local computers as a Server for someone else's Windows Updates is a good thing or not. Now I find that the performance on the OP's machine has failed in order to deliver ads. OP has 419 posts and has an account from 2012, so WTF.
Well this didn't fix my issue but if anybody is interesting in a batch file that resets indexing options to default here you go: Code: net stop wsearch reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search" /v SetupCompletedSuccessfully /t REG_SZ /d 0 /f net start wsearch Don't forget to run as Admin