Windows 10: Windows 10 Certain shortcuts/file folders not appearing in windows search bar.

Hi, as the title says I've been having issues with opening certain app shortcuts and file folders with the Windows Search Bar. I have a chrome shortcut that opens on a seperate profile for school and I used to just be able to search the name of the shortcut and have it pop up in the search bar. After the latest Window's 10 update, I'm not able to search for any names for app shortcuts or for file folders on my desktop. I'm on the newest update of Window's 10 Pro.So Far I have tried going into the search settings, removing all excluded folders, and adding all storage devices to the search index

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10 Defender - How to make it default to task bar?

Using Windows 10 and currently I am using Defender for anti virus. For whatever reason Windows Defender does not show up in the task bar unless I search for the program or right click and scan a file/folder. Is there a way to force Defender to show up in the task bar at start up?

 

Only certain shortcuts appear in Windows 10 Start Menu search

I added a number of custom shortcuts to my Start menu in Windows 7 and 8 for easy access (Start + typing to get to them) but only some of them appear in the results in Windows 10. For example, shortcuts to a specific folder don't appear (F:\My Project\Folder)
but if I change it to Explorer (%windir%\explorer.exe /e,F:\My Project\Folder) it does. Does it only show .exe files? Shortcuts to .sln (Visual Studio solution files) or other data files don't appear. Also, some .bat files I have in my Documents folder
also don't appear, but if I put a .txt file in the same folder it does. Are there settings for this filter?

Some information to head off suggestions:

• I don't have more than 512 entries in my Start menu. I already ran "get-startapps | measure" in PowerShell and it's 264. Also, the non-.exe shortcuts do appear in the All Apps menu, just not in search results.
• It says "Indexing Complete" in the Indexing Options with thousands of results. It's not still working on it. It saw the text file and the shortcut I made point to Explorer immediately so it can see files in those folders.
  
• In Indexing Options > Advanced > File Types everything is checked, including .sln and .bat files. I've also ran the troubleshooter, rebuilt the index, and waited for it to complete.