Starting Cortana with Windows + S key only begins the application as seen in the Task manager but it immediately dies and there is nothing displayed to be copied or to show.

Any time I try to start Cortana with Windows key + S or from the Start Menu, I can see it start in Task Manager, but it then disappears. Nothing gets displayed.

I ran sfc and it reported that it found no integrity violations. I checked my region and language and it is United States and US English.

I've gone to the action center and have turned location on and rebooted. Still unable to type anything in the search box of the task bar. The start menu works fine.

I checked that my geolocation service is running; and it is; per the link you provided. What is the "action center" where you say to check "location" ?

Your suggestion unfortunately did not resolve the problem. I still cannot type anything in the "Search the web and Windows" box in the task bar. Additionally Cortana still will not run. When I hit...

I've just upgraded my laptop to Win10 (did my desktop several months ago). The laptop is unable to take input to the Search the web and Windows task bar. I've searched the web, but all I've found was...