Windows 10: Windows Search Not Working On Main Admin local account

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  1. Windows Search Not Working On Main Admin local account


    Windows search doesn't work on my main admin account
    when i switch user to a secondary it works just fine

    :)
     
    Fiona Sherleen, Aug 10, 2020
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  2. KIM
    kim Win User

    Upgraded from windows 7 to windows 10 - lost my main account HELP !


    It's possible that the main administrator is disabled during upgrade. Follow these steps to activate it:
    1. Press Windows + X to open the Quick Access menu and select "Command Prompt(admin)".
    2. In the Command Prompt, type the net user command and it will list all existing local accounts.
    3. Next type net user administrator /active:yes
    4. Reboot your computer and check if you can login with the main administrator account.
     
  3. "We're getting search ready" error - Windows/Cortana Search


    Eureka, I fixed it! (for now, at least? lol) Here's how:

    step 1: create a new *local* user account, admin enabled (I named mine "Admin"). Make sure to use a password.
    step 2: make sure your MS account is linked to your main user account (the one you're using that is search-broken)
    step 3: convert your main user account to a standard (non-Admin) account.
    step 3: log over to the new "Admin" account, let Windows set up the account. Change NOTHING.
    step 4: reboot and/or relog into the main standard-user MS linked account.

    for me, this appears to have fixed everything. Cortana has interests working, can search all my files and settings, and Windows Update appears to be functioning normally. The only catch here is that since your main user account is non-admin, you will be prompted by UAC to log in to the newly created "Admin" account to change settings or installations. I'm not 100% sure why this works, but something about Cortana doesn't like being attached to the active administrator account. Also worth noting that while my main MS user works great in this config, actually logging over to the Admin user account produces the unresponsive Cortana/taskbar bug that we're all familiar with. It seems she doesn't moonlight, she only wants to be attached to one user per PC and she'd prefer it be a local non-admin?
     
    chrisnyc75, Aug 10, 2020
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  4. jkteddy77 Win User

    Windows Search Not Working On Main Admin local account

    "We're getting search ready" error - Windows/Cortana Search


    I have very similar experience, she is very picky.
    I for one simply reinstalled windows a few times until I got an install whose search worked right away (took 4 absolutely clean installs...)
    So I have only a single Admin MS account user, and Cortana is working currently, even after reindexing and pointing my user files around to other directories.

    If you get search to work on an account, Never try to switch it back to local again, or it may break forever again. Once I turned a working search user to local, going back to MS didn't give me working search operations again.

    Like chrisnyc75 explained, she only wants one account, and only the first MS account you ever use after Windows 10 installation.
    Cortana is picky and very much monogamous it seems...
     
    jkteddy77, Aug 10, 2020
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