Windows 10: Windows 10 Start Search can't find stuff in Start Menu

Hi I have a clean install of windows 10 with bootcamp on a macbook 13 early 2015 using the iso downloaded from microsoft. I've also enabled compact os.

I have this same problem: Windows 10 Search can't find ANY applications. Even calculator - Super User it seems.

Win+S doesn't find native applications like Edge, Calculator or anything that I installed, like Skype.

I tried everything I found on the internet, running the search troubleshooter (it doesn't find anything wrong), deleting that registry key, using that powershell command to reinstall native apps, rebuilding the index, setting the correct en-us language everywhere, creating a new user to see if the search works there (it doesn't).
I also disabled Cortana, no change, Search behaves the same.

Search finds internal windows stuff, like everything in control panel, just not things in Start Menu.
To be clear, I'm not talking about File Explorer search, that works. Just Start Menu Search, using Win+S.

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search box

I can't find the search box on the start menu on windows 10. None of the previously posted answers seem to apply to this particular problem.

 

Windows Search is completely unresponsive

After a system refresh (reset Windows while keeping personal files), I was able to get search to work...on the stuff that was in the Start Menu at install time. It would not find new stuff added to the start menu, nor would it properly "Search my stuff"
(clicking Search My Stuff does absolutely nothing). I tried rebuilding the index, and it won't find anything except Notepad now. It still responds, but does not return any results.

I'm wondering if this has to do with the fact that I have multiple partitions. Two NTFS, one Mac OS Journaled partition. All three are readable by Windows, but only the two NTFS ones are being indexed. Could Microsoft really have made the huge oversight
not to test with multiple partitions and this is the problem? Search works fine on my Surface Pro, which has only one partition.

This problem is extremely frustrating, because I have to actually navigate into Program Files to start half my programs, or find them in the "All apps" list if they were added to the Start Menu properly.

 

Start menu search not finding applications?
Would you care to read thru that thread and see if anything helps? And assuming yours is the same symptom - I know nothing about bootcamp- please join that thread.

Key to this is search indexing working and no changes (deletions) being made to what's indexed.