Windows 10: search field and cortana wont function

Hi all
I installed a new version of Windows 10 pro. The search function and cortana was working fine. My IT person joined the company domain and everything still worked correctly. We did updates and lost the use of the search bar and cortana. The start button works fine just not cortana or search. I have tried all the stuff online to fix this without success.

I have tried a group of suggested solutions like Scannow,Get-appx comands and a few other things i saw online. Can someone walk me through a process to solve this.

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Cortana and search field wont work.

I just tried doing a clean boot. I also forgot to mention that i can not do updates either. Even during the clean boot session i get this message.

 

Cortana and search field wont work.

Hi,

We see that you are having issues using the Search bar and Cortana on your Windows 10 PC. To assist you better, kindly answer the questions below:

• Have you tried creating a new account user on your computer and see if you will still encounter the same issue?
• Have you tried to perform a clean boot on your computer? If not, kindly follow the steps that are provided on this
  
  link.

Note: Go through the section: How to reset the computer to start as usual after troubleshooting with clean boot of the Kb article to boot the computer in normal startup after fixing the issue.

Regards.

 

Hi, if
Reinstall and Re-register Apps in Windows 10 Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials
and
Enable or Disable Cortana in Windows 10 Windows 10 Apps Features Tutorials
don't help, and if Cortana does not work in a new user account, then
you may have to do an in-place upgrade repair install.

If Cortana does work in a new user account (create one for test purposes) then that is unlikely to help, and you either need to resolve the problem in the account which is affected, or use a different account and delete the affected account.

Otherwise, given

, use one or more system restore points (if System Restore is enabled and you have useful restore points) until the function is restored.

Note: perhaps you are in the habit of using disk imaging, which we strongly and repeatedly recommend. (E.g. Macrium Reflect (free) + its boot disk and external storage for images).

If so, you could restore a disk image.