Search boxes inside windows not working

Thanks to all.

Funny enough now I can type, but only one letter... The second letter I type will replace the first and the third will replace the second and so on. Very funny.

I guess I must wait till MS fixes it or put a lot of time in trying the workarounds which are not for beginners either...

kmint said:

Funny enough now I can type, but only one letter..

I saw that too once I'd applied that Folder Option fix 'Automatically type into the Search Box' seen earlier in this thread. Un-tick it and see what happens.

For me once I went back and un-ticked that box the function to type into the search window returned only to disappear later. It's pretty flaky when it will work and when it won't, having often mistakenly thought I'd just fixed it.

Something I've also seen associated with this File Explorer search issue when it does appear, is there's often a corresponding Runtime Broker crash that shows up in my Reliability History.

"I guess I must wait till MS fixes it "

Only two days until Jan Patch Tues; we'll see then, although this was known issue before the Dec update. Cheers

Farvatten said:

I saw that too once I'd applied that Folder Option fix 'Automatically type into the Search Box' seen earlier in this thread. Un-tick it and see what happens.

For me once I went back and un-ticked that box the function to type into the search window returned only to disappear later. It's pretty flaky when it will work and when it won't, having often mistakenly thought I'd just fixed it.

Something I've also seen associated with this File Explorer search issue when it does appear, is there's often a corresponding Runtime Broker crash that shows up in my Reliability History.

Yes!, it works fine now. You say until rebooting?

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mrgeek said:

"I guess I must wait till MS fixes it "

Only two days until Jan Patch Tues; we'll see then, although this was known issue before the Dec update. Cheers

Oh, you work in Microsoft? Cool!! It's perhaps the biggest flaw I've seen in my life in any Windows version ever.

kmint said:

You say until rebooting?

I've found little rhyme or reason to why or when it wants to quit.

Actually a reboot usually fixes it.


Also, as that one link suggests: Windows 10 1909 KB4517245 Update Causes File Explorer Issues

If you're comfortable with killing processes, you can kill and restart the 'explorer.exe' process which has worked for me until I need to do it again.

Besides the fact that Window's File Explorer Search is so darn convenient ( when it works ), I, like others, have looked to 3rd party search utilities, some better and more efficient, and there's been many suggestions to choose from in these other posts.

So far it still works fully fine but I will not reboot in days just in case :)

Yes, I'm very comfortable with killing processes, I'll do it if it stops working.

Or use a 3rd party program if necessary.

Many thanks to all. I don't know why the system won't all me to thank each post of help but thank you anyway.

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And since you're so good at computers, could you take a look at this other problem I have?

Toshiba Canvio 2TB external HD 3.0 transfering at 2.0 speed

ellellell1 said:

Good to hear

Would you also be able to mark this thread as "Solved". Just so that others who have a similar problem can follow these steps too. That being said, probably not a 'perfect' solution , but a solution nevertheless.

You can do this by clicking on the green box 'Mark as Solved' under the last post.

So it stopped working. Completely out of the blue. I had restarted Windows two or three times and still worked, this morning it still worked. Now it doesn't. No reason detected.