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This post is an attempt at a concise composite reply to the questions and suggestions made by everyone on my problem. I hope it is enough to be of use, and await further advice ofbest way forward.
I have run indexing three times and the search box is still grey and inactive. The Windows icon to the left is white, but shows blue momentarily with a mini-brief flash of, I think, the hour glass. Cortana I switched to “on” last evening but the search box did not change attributes. This morning I checked find settings and Cortana is on. Windows-S has no effect.
Action Centre Icon shows “no new notifications”, and, in case it is of use, right clicking to open does nothing. The series of boxes on the desktop is missing too.
Anti-telemetry applications, I have no idea what they are, so I cannot say.
There is no message in red in privacy.
I do have several Sys Res points available, and the disc on to which I burnt the ISO Windows 10 image.
Language before all this happened I noticed it had been rest from UK to US and altered it back.