Windows 10: Search Displaying Uninstalled Items, and missing Installed Items

I recently upgraded from Office 2016 to Office 365 and now whenever I type "Word" into the Search bar, the previous version of Word, "Word 2016," comes up and the currently installed version does not. Word 2016 has been uninstalled.


I have tried rebuilding my search index through Indexing Options, Advanced, Rebuild. That did not make any difference.




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Start menu search items not clickable

This has been mentioned a lot and even though I'm constantly forced to update with a count down or scheduling reminder (I've seen posts of supposedly how to disable automatic updates however never had the time to investigate doing it myself but not happy
about how difficult the process is to disable it in W10P) I still don't see this problem getting addressed.

Problem: Search in start menu for random items result in un-clickable items. For example, type "remove" and the "Add or remove Programs" and "Uninstall a Program" options are listed at the top as one would expect but clicking on them does nothing.





Solution: Type "control" and the "Control Panel" option is listed and IS clickable. Then go to the sub option within the explorer control panel window.

Question: Why list items in the search result if they are not accessible? Is this intuitive? No.

Machine specific? Before suggesting this is a broken install it might help to know I can reproduce this on every W10 machine I've ever worked on of which exist in totally different environments, some were W8 upgrades...some were clean installs.

 

No settings or control panel items in search.

I also had control panel items missing in Win 10 search.
This forum post worked, now I can search for control panel items again!

Edit: Nevermind, I see this was already suggested 1 page back

 

Metro Apps Reinstalled Even After I Manually Uninstalled Them

Hi,

Thank you for updating on the status. Apologize for the delay in response.

I suggest you to check if the applications/games are completely uninstalled by following the steps below:

• Type Control Panel in the search box and press Enter.
• Under Programs, click on Uninstall a Program.
• Check if the applications/games are displaying.
• If they are displaying, select the item and click on Uninstall.

Hope the information is helpful. Keep us posted on the status.