Windows 10: Broken search bar

My search bar doesn't work every time Windows does a security update. The troubleshooter says fixed, but it lies! The only thing I have been able to do is uninstall the update causing the issue but I don't want to have security issues. Please help! Thank you. :

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my search bar is broken

Using step 3 in the tutorial below to "Turn Off Search online and include web results from Bing" should fix the broken search in Windows 10. *Smile

Turn On or Off Search online and include web results in Windows 10

 

Search Bar/Cortana

Hello,

Thank you for posting your concern here in Microsoft Community and welcome to the Windows 10 family.

From the description, I understand that you are still receiving the pop up notifications, despite having disabled the search functionality in windows 10.

Steps to disable the Search Bar

• Right click on the task bar.
• Select the "Search" option.
• Select "Disable."

However, if the above steps don't work out, perform the below suggested steps and check if it helps to resolve the issue.

Open a CMD window started as Administrator.

Repair corruption: Dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth.

Run this command next: Sfc /scannow

Now run these two commands:

PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like "*SystemApps*"} | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Hope the above information was helpful.

Thank You.

 

Search on Task Bar Broken

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



We understand how difficult it is, when the device doesn't work in the way it should. I appreciate the troubleshooting steps that you've tried so far.



Seems that the issue is related to Windows search feature, which is not working in the current user account and moreover you have confirmed that it is working on new user account.



As you have mentioned the troubleshooting steps in the post which should have fixed the issue. We would like to know the end result of SFC Scan, DISM and Search Troubleshooter.



However, we would suggest to perform these methods and check.



Method 1: Check the Windows Search service status.

1. Press Windows +R key from the keyboard to launch
   Run command.
   
2. Type services.msc
   and click Ok.
   
3. Scroll down the list and right click on
   Windows Search service.
   
4. Click on Properties
   and then change the startup type as Automatic and click on Start
   under General tab.
   
5. Select the Dependencies tab. You will see a list of dependency services, please expand each
   
6. Then search the Dependencies service under the Service list and check the status. If required perform step 4 for all of them.

Method 2: How to Reset and Rebuild Search Index in Windows 10

1. Open the Control Panel, click/tap on the
   Indexing Options icon, and close the Control Panel.
   
2. Click on the Advanced button.
   
3. In the Index Settings tab, click on the
   Rebuild button under Troubleshooting.
   
4. Click on OK to confirm.
   
5. Indexing will now be in progress and once it is completed, then check if the issue persist.

We await your response.



Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator