Windows 10 Search Ghost Items


  1. 2allmyhaters
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    Windows 10 Search Ghost Items


    https://i.imgur.com/oxDUFDR.png

    Does anyone know how many places, and where this information is stored?

    There is no action on left or right click. I have no idea how to get rid of this ghost item from an outdated now deleted shortcut.

    Is this stored in a file? A registry key?
    I just want to know the ways windows 10 search works so I can fix it.
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  3. Ghot
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    2allmyhaters said:
    https://i.imgur.com/oxDUFDR.png

    Does anyone know how many places, and where this information is stored?

    There is no action on left or right click. I have no idea how to get rid of this ghost item from an outdated now deleted shortcut.

    Is this stored in a file? A registry key?
    I just want to know the ways windows 10 search works so I can fix it.


    Are you saying, you no longer have GIMP installed?
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  4. 2allmyhaters
    Posts : 15
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    Yes, and many others. Even old .lnk files I deleted still show. Why is this?

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    Explorer.exe never even makes calls to CreateFile() on these 'ghost' items.
    So I am guessing it is being read from some kind of db file on windows?
    Anybody know?
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