Windows 10: Search does not work inside Windows 10 Settings

Hi,

I can see this matter has been discussed several times on the internet. Nonetheless there seems to be no final answer or solution for it.

The problem is, the search function inside Windows 10 Settings does not work.

I saw there are mainly 2 solutions offered online:


1. Go to C:\ , right click, advanced properties and tick the indexing option for all files.

This doesn't work.


2. Go to C:\Users\workinguserprofilename\AppData\Local\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\ and do the same thing as 1 above.

This doesn't work either.

Now I am reading that Windows saves the 'settings' for searching in the user profile - the location is: C:\Users\userprofilename\AppData\Local\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Indexed\Settings

However this folder is empty. It is suggested to just copy and paste the same settings from another computer, but these are all empty on other computers as well and yet their settings search works perfectly! So I can't copy anything to my computer to fix this issue.

3. another solution was:


"

After reading this thread I realized the files are somewhere on the device, but don't get copied to the profile.

I found them in C:\Windows\ImmersiveControlPanel\Settings and copied *.settingcontent-ms files to $Env:LOCALAPPDATA\Local\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Indexed\Settings\en-US."

However, again this folder only has 1 xml file in each of the computers that I have tested this.




Was anyone able to fix this ?

I feel like I'm going mad here!


Thanks a lot!

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Thank you for providing some suggestions.

I performed step 1, and at the end of the test, it reported "No changes or updates are necessary."

I then performed step 2 and received the same message at the end of the test.

After running the two tests above, I opened up Settings and typed "privacy", which should show some help categories (It does on my other Windows 10 computers). However, on the one computer there is no help information. It states "No result for privacy".
It appears the Settings app help information list is empty or not found. Typing a single character, e.g., 'p', into the search box displays "No result for p".

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