Showing posts with label cortana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cortana. Show all posts

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?