Windows 10: PowerShell/Windows Search help

I need the ability to search for a list of key words in multiple user files, primarily doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, txt and pdf. I have written a PowerShell script that does exactly that, searches files for a list of key words and if found saves the file name to a text document. This works perfectly well with the txt documents; however, because Office files are stored more with code then with text the search procedure doesn't work very well against shorter key words. The Windows Search feature in Windows 10 does allow search for any text within Office documents and you can even make

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Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.

 

powershell help does not seem to work

Thanks for response.
I have done chkdsk C: /f also.
still not working. I tried your suggestion also. That also does not work.
But as I said get-help dir works. Please see below

 

windows xp installation and dual core am

could someone please list the steps they follow to install windows with a dual core processor and windows xp service pack to. I'm reletively new to amd dual core and i feel i'm missing a step. All help will be appreciated. thanx