Monday, 21 September 2015

Windows 10 search cannot find any applications

So since installing Windows 10, the search has been working fine.
Now today, When using search to find *any* application it doesn't find shit... seriously, it doesn't registere there are any applications.

Even though indexing is turned on for all the relevant places like c:\program files, c:\users, start menu it doesn't work.

The only thing that does work is a re-installation of Cortana

Firstly, open an elevated powershell prompt (see here if you don't know how) and run the following
Get-AppXPackage -Name Microsoft.Windows.Cortana | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

After that it instantly works.... very annoying or what?
 

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