search bar disappears after 1 second

[VisualCoder815]

Before reporting your issue

• I have confirmed that this issue does not happen when ExplorerPatcher is not installed
• I do not have "register as shell extension" enabled
• I have tried my best to check existing issues

Repro ExplorerPatcher versions

26100.4946.69.6

Repro Windows Versions

Windows 11 25H2 26200.8037 x64

3rd party tweak software installed

Windhawk, Winaero Tweaker

Describe the bug

1. click on the long search bar
2. wait for about 1 second
3. the search bar vanishes automatically
4. if i close it, the search bar reappears on its own

Expected outcome

the search bar should not disappear.

Actual outcome

the search bar disappears 1 second after clicking it, and then it comes back by itself when i close the search ui.

Additional info

No response

Crash Dumps

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Media

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[pyrates999]

When did this start happening?

If you open up task manager, go to details tab, kill explorer.exe and run explorer.exe, does it fix it?

Please disable all windhawk mods to see if one of them is causing this.

Please list the changes you made in winaero tweaker.