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Same problem here. Also, I can't pin anything to the start menu that isn't already under "all apps".
Same problem here. Also, I can't pin anything to the start menu that isn't already under "all apps".
Hey guys, perhaps it's just a matter of waiting - just, way longer than seems realistic? I know that for me, the problem stopped once the "We're getting Search ready for you" thing completely disappeared. On my own PC, it was either that or the re-indexing which solved it. Otherwise, I kind of expect that Microsoft is on this and will have a fix for us soon that makes this more transparent/understandable/fast.
Yeah, I finally got it to work, even for all the apps I installed later. I went into the Cortana settings and told her to forget me. I disabled web searches. I changed the indexing to only include the Start Menu at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu that is already listed, then removed Users and added just C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu. Then rebuilt the index, which was only 279 items after all that. Then rebooted.
It still says We're getting search ready, and now I need to type the full settings text and search, but the apps I wanted most are now working with only a couple of characters typed. Hopefully the settings searches get back to normal too. Eventually I might reindex users files but I don't really care that much.
There are many posts on Superuser and other places about this that haven't gotten much further in solving it for everyone. It seems to resolve itself whenever it feels like it. MS should fix the root cause of the problem, whatever that is.
This issue only happens with clean installs. Never with upgrades.
I had to clean install 4 times on a laptop today because the first three times that error showed up.
And each time I was doing tnr exact same steps to install, I didn't do anything different the fourth time which made it work.