Monday, October 3, 2016

Search on Start Menu does not find any apps! How to fix?

Made a clean install (format HDD etc.) with W10 AU. Since then I can not press the Win-button and start typing the name of an app, it will just find documents and other stuff with a matching name, not the app itself. There are a few apps like Notepad and Powershell that shows up, but not apps like Calculator or E-mail or any third party apps for that matter.

I live in a EU region without Cortana.

I have realized that I am not the only one with this problem, but fixes that work for others does not seem to work for me. I have tried:

Running Powershell command: Get-AppXPackage -Name Microsoft.Windows.Cortana | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
which just gives me: Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073D02

Deleting the reg key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderTypes\{ef87b4cb-f2ce-4785-8658-4ca6c63e38c6}\TopViews\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}

Run the search troubleshooter and rebuilding the index.

This is so annoying, I am very thankful for any ideas what to try next...


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