Windows 10: Start menu search not finding applications?

Discus and support Start menu search not finding applications? in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Are you saying you did a clean install of all your program's ? Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by EziaN, Jul 30, 2015.

Page 2 of 7
  1. COMPUTIAC GUEST
    COMPUTIAC Guest Win User

    Start menu search not finding applications?


    Are you saying you did a clean install of all your program's ?
     
    COMPUTIAC Guest, Jul 30, 2015
    #16
  2. CHUCK38
    Chuck38 Win User

    You say you can navigate to the .exe's, correct? If so, where are they located?
     
    Chuck38, Jul 30, 2015
    #17
  3. EZIAN
    EziaN Win User
    I'm Using the the non web version too, but almost none of my applications show up
     
    EziaN, Jul 30, 2015
    #18
  4. EZIAN
    EziaN Win User

    Start menu search not finding applications?

    The exe's for Office 2013 are located here:

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15

    i have other exe files on c: that won't show up as well, and exe files on other drives with the same issue
     
    EziaN, Jul 30, 2015
    #19
  5. COMPUTIAC GUEST
    COMPUTIAC Guest Win User
    Please answer the question in post #14.
     
    COMPUTIAC Guest, Jul 31, 2015
    #20
  6. EZIAN
    EziaN Win User
    Yes everything is clean installed
     
    EziaN, Jul 31, 2015
    #21
  7. COMPUTIAC GUEST
    COMPUTIAC Guest Win User
    I'm trying to understand what you are doing, please humor me.

    You had win 7, then you did an upgrade to 10 from within 7, correct ?
    Then did you do a clean install of 10 after ?
     
    COMPUTIAC Guest, Jul 31, 2015
    #22
  8. PAL
    pal Win User

    Start menu search not finding applications?

    The start menu search seems strange. Some items are searchable, others are not. They show up in "all apps", but not when I search after them. For example the Office applications don't show up in the search.
     
    pal, Jul 31, 2015
    #23
  9. EZIAN
    EziaN Win User
    You got it exactly right.
    I'm not a big fan of upgraded OS, so i did a clean install after the upgrade.
    So the OS and the programs are ALL a clean install
     
    EziaN, Jul 31, 2015
    #24
  10. LABEEMAN
    labeeman Win User
    In other words you installed M$ office from disk? Or did you just copy the files from programs back to your new install?
     
    labeeman, Jul 31, 2015
    #25
  11. EZIAN
    EziaN Win User
    From disk, theres nothing wierd about the installation... efter the upgrade i deleted all disk partitions and did a clean install.
    Nothing is from another install, everything is clean
     
    EziaN, Jul 31, 2015
    #26
  12. ALPHANUMERIC
    alphanumeric New Member
    If I type out in search it finds outlook for me. I have office 2013 installed. its listed as Microsoft office 2013 in the Start Menu. I have to click the down arrow to see the list of all installed programs like Word and Outlook etc. Mine was already installed before I upgraded to Windows 10.
     
    alphanumeric, Jul 31, 2015
    #27
  13. COMPUTIAC GUEST
    COMPUTIAC Guest Win User

    Start menu search not finding applications?

    After you did the upgrade from 7 to 10 was it activated before you did the clean install ?

    Then, after you did the clean install of 10 was it activated also ?
     
    COMPUTIAC Guest, Jul 31, 2015
    #28
  14. LABEEMAN
    labeeman Win User
    It sounds like your registry is corrupt or bad that is where windows knows where your programs are and you are not getting that.
     
    labeeman, Jul 31, 2015
    #29
  15. EZIAN
    EziaN Win User
    Yeah, it was activated both times
     
    EziaN, Jul 31, 2015
    #30
Page 2 of 7
Thema:

Start menu search not finding applications?

Loading...

  1. Start menu search not finding applications? - Similar Threads - Start menu search

  2. Start menu not showing applications after searching

    in Windows 10 Gaming
    Start menu not showing applications after searching: Hello,I have been facing this issue since a couple of days now, where when I go to the search bar in the start menu and type an app name, say for example "discord", I don't see the application on my system which I have, but the browser results and other things which are not...

  3. Start menu not showing applications after searching

    in Windows 10 Software and Apps
    Start menu not showing applications after searching: Hello,I have been facing this issue since a couple of days now, where when I go to the search bar in the start menu and type an app name, say for example "discord", I don't see the application on my system which I have, but the browser results and other things which are not...

  4. Start menu not showing applications after searching

    in Cortana
    Start menu not showing applications after searching: Hello,I have been facing this issue since a couple of days now, where when I go to the search bar in the start menu and type an app name, say for example "discord", I don't see the application on my system which I have, but the browser results and other things which are not...

  5. Start Menu Search Results for Applications are Out of Date

    in Cortana
    Start Menu Search Results for Applications are Out of Date: When I attempt to search for newly installed programs via the start menu search, they do not appear. Uninstalled programs will contiune to appear search in the results after having been removed. This issue only affects program results, not file results. I have tried...

  6. Start Menu Search Results for Applications are Out of Date

    in Cortana
    Start Menu Search Results for Applications are Out of Date: When I attempt to search for newly installed programs via the start menu search, they do not appear. Uninstalled programs will also still show in the results after having been removed. I have tried restarting the windows search service, restarting windows explorer,...

  7. Windows Start Menu Search not finding WinWord.exe

    in Windows 10 Customization
    Windows Start Menu Search not finding WinWord.exe: I have a puzzle. I am having a problem with Office 365 right now. It caused me to search for WinWord.EXE. When I used the Start menu, it did not find the file. Start menu did find the Word tile. Opening the file location of the Tile gave me the shortcut. The shortcut...

  8. Start menu search can't find some applications

    in Windows 10 Support
    Start menu search can't find some applications: I am unable to search for some applications on my new laptop. I have tried rebuilding the index and restarting twice now with these options: [img] For example, both Chrome and Firefox are installed and have icons in the start menu, both show up under "Most Used" and both...

  9. Start Menu Search Doesn't Find Steam

    in Windows 10 Support
    Start Menu Search Doesn't Find Steam: The shortcut is here: [img] But if I search nothing comes up. It has not problems finding Blender and Skyrim ... [img] 6209

  10. Start Menu search not finding files

    in Windows 10 Support
    Start Menu search not finding files: When I go to search for files (such as images/videos) through the Start Menu search (Cortana), files do not appear in results. The only way I can actually find these files is to manually click the "More" dropdown and select whichever file type it is (photos, videos, music...