Windows 10: Lost search icon

I have a new laptop with windows 10 home.
Cortana suddenly appeared last night. It might be useful, but only seems to want to search the internet.
I have managed to hide/disable it but have lost the search icon which searched my PC only; how do I get it back please?

:)

 

New computer with windows 10 pre installed

All of a sudden I have lost the icons on the bottom of the screen and the ones like search windows fail to operate. What could have happened, I also lost the power icon and have to sign out to shut down.

 

Start menu icon and Search not working.

Original title : window10.

i can't press start and the icon was lost too.

it has only start ,search, file ,googlechome icon.

and when i want to search ,it's not run to the program that i want to use

 

Hello Joe, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

What method did you use to hide/disable Cortana? This is important because some methods will also disable Windows Search.

Normally, you could use the method in the tutorial below to safely disable Cortana and still have Search available.

Cortana - Enable or Disable in Windows 10

Search Icon or Box - Show or Remove on Windows 10 Taskbar

 

I right clicked on the taskbar, up to cortana and used the hidden feature

 

the search icon had disappeared before I hid cortana, I thought by hiding it the search icon might return

 

Ok. Good, you just hid it.

You could use the first tutorial I posted above to disable Cortana.

Afterwards, use the second tutorial to show the "Search" icon on your taskbar again.

 

Thanks I'll try that, would it be ok just to go to the second tutorial and have both cortana and the search icon?

 

Brink,

Got the search item on my taskbar after tutorial one.
My brain hurts now so I'll leave it at that.
Many thanks for your help, I know where to look in the future
Regards