Search broken?

Some strangeness going on with my PC.

I was having a problem with our HP printer, and kept getting an 'error state'. I could not remedy the problem, so I restored the system back to an earlier point yesterday.

Now, I have noticed when in the Windows Settings, typing something in the search bar brings back no results. It was working fine up until yesterday.

I don't think the search bar on the Taskbar (?) is affected oddly enough, it can do it from there.

Can anyone offer any solutions with this problem please?

Within opened Powershell type below command and press Enter key:

Code:

Get-AppxPackage –AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}

This tells Windows to install those default apps again. Give it some time and allow it to finish, even if nothing appears to happen at first. Even if you see an error message, restart and examine your Settings app.

Freebooter:

I did run that command as you said, quite a few error messages usually of a 'higher version already exists' (from what I could tell with my limited knowledge). I think in one case it said "AppManifest.xml does not exist" or something.

It hasn't fixed it yet though.

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Dalchina:

I haven't knowingly disabled search indexing. From Explorer, searching works as usual. Also on the task bar (Cortana?), that seems to work OK as well, I get the same results from typing (say) "Create a Restore Point", as what used to happen in the Window Settings search bar.

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I have just tried Dalchina's link where it talks about

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState

In that folder, there should be another folder called Indexed, but instead there is nothing.

I will now try a sfc /scannow, and see what that tells me.

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sfc found no integrity violations, so now I am going to try the three dism commands as suggested.

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OK, the three DISM checks (scanhealth, checkhealth and restorehealth) have now completed, and no problems with those.

Apologies for the delay (I've had to do something).

Tried the troubleshooter (found in Update & Security), but it wasn't able to help me.

I do have W10 1903 on a USB stick to do a in-place repair upgrade anyway, but I will now try steps b and c first.

Before I do continue: in step b is it option one, two, or three I need please?

Thanks for your assistance.

The troubleshooter found no problems.

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Just to be clear I have understood, according to Option 2, I open a command prompt.

Then, for Settings which I found in the instructions, I copy and paste that.

Is that correct, please?

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OK, well I tried the above command, and no success.