Search Icon on Taskbar Not Working

Suddenly I can't do any searches using the taskbar eyeglass icon on my Win10 computer. When I hover over it, I see the words "Type here to search", but it won't let me type anything. I tried the Search Troubleshooter but that didn't help.

My Windows 10 Home version is 22H2.

Thanks in advance for any help/guidance.

Thank you for the explicit instructions, Brink. I will try them later this evening and post back.
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Brink, I ran into some problems using Windows 10. First, it would not accept wt in the run box. However, I think I got to an elevated command prompt by typing in cmd.

But then when I downloaded, saved and unblocked the ps1 file, I got the error message shown in the attachment.

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Brink, I stand partially corrected. Before I was not actually in the Windows Terminal (Admin). so I tried again successfully. But this time I got a different error message as shown in the attachment.

@ FreeBooter - Thanks for all your suggestions. I tried all of them except for re-indexing, but none of them worked.

@ delchina - Thanks for your reply. Yes, I put the downloaded file on my desktop. Before I try your Option 3, I was hoping that Brink would tell me how to correct the error I was getting when using his tutorial. Now, perhaps the only thing I didn't do properly when following Brink's tutorial was to Unblock the downloaded ps1 file. I never saw where to do that, and when I clicked on the downloaded file it went straight to my Notepad. What does it mean to 'Unblock' a file?

I want to thank everyone for trying to help me fix my Search function, as I use it often.