Windows 10: Start menu search not finding applications?

Personally, I wouldn't begin to do repairs and stuff at this moment. He has the problem, I have the problem, and it seems others have it too (also on this forum). So there is something we have missed, or there is a slight bug...

 

I will try to make a repair of my windows 10 installation tomorrow and update here with a result.

Thanks you guys for your help in narrowing this issue down

 

Rerun the office setup, if memory serves me, it will detect its already installed and offer a repair option.

 

You might refer to this Arstechnica article discussing having the same issue with programs not showing up in search or the start menu.

It is mentioned that MS is using a database with a system account to generate that list, and it has a maximum of around ~500 entries.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/...ugs-get-fixed/

And here is an MS thread about it
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/i...f-bd283aa6cfdf

 

I don't see how that will help. The entries in the start menu are there. They show up in "all apps", just not when you do a search...

 

Can't hurt to try it, if it works problem solved. Just trying to help. *Smile

 

The issue is not only with Office, but almost every app i install. On my laptop i dont have the issue and Windows have been installed the same way on both platforms, the only difference being that my Laptop is running Windows 10 pro

 

If you are hitting the hard limit on application links it will store in its database, it will not show up in All Apps or in search.
It makes no sense what so ever, and I will give them the All Apps one. But search? come on.

Read the links I posted above.

 

Ok, fair enough. I have Pro installed on 4 PC's and don't have that issue. All were upgrade installs from 8.1 Pro or 10 build 10240.

 

I have less than 15 applications installed, so i should not have issues with hard limit

 

UPDATE:

I reinstalled Windows 10, and everything seems to work fine now.

Thanks again for all your help

 

Rebuilding the search index seems to have helped. Odd. It is a complete fresh install. I wonder how often I need to rebuild it.

 

Your welcome.

Congrat's, glad you have it worked out now.

 

If your problem come's back again, please open a new thread to avoid confusion.
Thank you for understanding.

 

Hey everybody!

I think the problem most of us are sharing here is that when you open the start menu and start typing, it doesn't give you search results from the installed apps.

I have the same thing: I get search results from all over the PC (files, folders...), from settings and more, but it won't find installed apps. I have to fish them from the "all apps" list manually.

I did an upgrade from Win 7 Pro to Win 10 Pro, then wiped everything and did a Win 10 Pro clean install. Found out about the issue afterwards.

Somebody here said they rebuilt the search index... Anybody know how this is done?

Somebody else mentioned re-installing... Hope I don't have to do this, since I spent a lot of time getting Windows 10 installed and set up, and then installing and setting up Ubuntu. I would have to take them both down and start from scratch if I were to reinstall Windows :-/

The "good" news is, we're not alone. This very much sounds like a bug, and as such, we'll probably have a fix from Microsoft soon.