Windows 10: Search Bar cannot be interacted with.

Clicking on the search bar on the task bar does nothing, pressing the windows key opens the start menu but doesn't allow for typing in the search box. The search bar in File Explorer behaves similarly. This is likely a result of my tampering with certain files earlier, namely deleting ones that may have been important. My recycle bin held the Microsoft folder that is ordinarily present in C:\ProgramData. I have tried:Running ctfmon.exe through Win + RRunning sfc /scannowRunning DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth and DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /RestorehealthRepairing all Wind

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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.

 

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I had to go through and reset some variables on my computer, since my friend put whitespace in my default username and I couldn't install ghc (Haskell compiler) or OracleDB as a result.

I followed this tutorial to figure out the things I would have to change

While now I can install the compiler, the search bar near my windows icon (I believe it's called the Cortana search bar), as well as the search in the file explorer UI now no longer function. It's not that it doesn't populate results, but it's not interactable
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