Windows 10: Search is not working.

It's me Archie, not you. I think Win10 testing has fried my brain!

The search cache gets filled as the gatherer crawls the system and updates the index.

How long do you wait for the rebuild to finish. It depends on the number of locations indexed. It's usually fairly fast - 10-15 minutes.
If you look back at indexing options in Control Panel, you'll know when it's done




The rest - I'll just say that I've submitted feedback about search not working 'correctly' on 9926 and 10041 releases. Each machine and environment is different. For some members search works fine - not me, and not as expected (it should search regardless of Cortana settings or network connection, or MS account ... it should search).

I just use the File Explorer search box - or Command Prompt to find things. I have no other choice ... yet.

Bill
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Yes, indexing complete. But still which I click on the seh button I only get the mouse hover effect on the button. *Sad I guess my bad luck.

It is not anything very essential, but still it would be good it it would have been worked.

 

Ok Archie, here's the insane part! After reading your post# 15, I decided to give Search another go.

Right clicked taskbar, pick Search, enabled Show search icon
I hovered over the magnifying glass on the taskbar to get a first hand look at what you described. Then I clicked the icon and ... and
... it worked!

Not only did the search pane appear, but it searched and actually found what I wanted (msconfig is my standard search item).

I did not restart and I also checked to see if WU gave me something behind the scenes (it did not).
I am using a local account.

So what happened?
I toggled the Search box on (taskbar search pick),
I changed the taskbar to NOT use small icons (the search box did NOT appear, only the icon was displayed)
I toggled the search icon on (taskbar properties -> toolbars tab - > Search on the taskbar -> icon)

Nothing worked at that point, so I reverted to the way I was operating my machine

I changed the taskbar to use small icons (the search icon was still displayed)
I disabled search icon on (taskbar properties -> toolbars tab - > Search on the taskbar -> disabled)

Then I read post# 15 and (see notes at top).

Something isn't sticking and the settings need to be 'awakened' - at least on my machine.

Play around with the display search settings and see if any one particular set works for you. No guarantee that it will be retained after a restart.

Best of luck, my friend.

 

Hi Michale. *Biggrin

Though a single go did not help me, but a few rebuilds and restarts made everything back to normal. Seh is working again!!!




Great help, mate! *Thumbs

Thanks a lot for your valuable assistance. I am marking this thread as solved, cheers.