Windows 10: Minimizing Explorer windows returns them to old searches

There's a strange and very annoying bug in Windows 10 that's been around for the past year now or longer. Every time I minimize an explorer window that has at any point in it's history ever done a search, it returns to that search no matter what.Steps to produce:1. Open an Explorer window, navigate to any folder, it's pick "Documents"2. Do a file search, doesn't matter what, let's say "dog"3. Navigate out of the search and go anywhere else. Let's pick C:\Users4. Minimize the explorer window to the taskbar5. For some reason the Window 'magically' is back to Documents with the same search result

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Minimizing file explorer sends it back to search mode

With latest Windows 10 update (currently I'm having 2004), if you search in File Explorer and do "open folder/file location", and then minimize the explorer window, it will automatically roll back to original search status.

Steps to reproduce this bug:

1. Open File Explorer

2. Pick a drive/folder, say "D:\data"

3. On search box of File Explorer, type a search string, for instance "rose"

4. A list of folders/files that have the string "rose" will be listed, and now right click on a folder/file, and select "open folder/file location"

5. As expected, the search status (colored as blue in task bar) is gone, and the window becomes like a regular file explorer window (colored as yellow in task bar).

6. You can further click on side bar and choose a different folder to display

7. NOW the PROBLEM, if you minimize this window (or click on bottom right corner to minimize all open windows), you will see from task bar that it goes back to search mode, and display "rose". If you open it again, you will see it shows
search result for "rose" in current folder.

So, by picking "open file location", you already end the search and want to use file explorer in its usual way, but minimizing the window brings it back to search mode. I use search A LOT, and have seen this issue only recently. This is definitely a bug!

 

Explorer Search Box Return to All Files

Maybe I am also misunderstanding, but after the search results, left arrow returns to full file listing.

 

setting default view for Winodws Explorer Search Reasults

Thank you for the detailed response. To change the search result's view from content to list, we suggest following the steps below:

• Open the File Explorer and try to search for files.
• In the toolbar, open the View tab and click List
  to change the view.
• Once changed, close the File Explorer.
• Open the File Explorer again and try to search to see if the setting has been retained.

After performing the steps above, reply back to us so we can provide additional help.