Timeline for Windows 10 Search can't find ANY applications. Even calculator
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| Jul 28, 2022 at 6:24 | comment | added | Thick_propheT | God bless you sir. You are an absolute legend. I'm not sure if this is the exact cause of my problem, but I suspect it may be related to having run Chris Titus's windows 10 debloater (or whatever it's called these days) | |
| Feb 7, 2021 at 10:02 | comment | added | Sigmatics | Thanks so much, this is the answer for me as well. All the other "rebuild index" tips were useless, but for some reason this odd privacy setting fixes it (Win 10 Version 20H2) | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 20:54 | comment | added | Aaron | This key did not work, but deleting another one did. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\AppPrivacy\LetAppsRunInBackground | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 18:32 | comment | added | ToastyMallows | This worked for me! Windows 10 Version 1803 | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 1:26 | comment | added | Scott DePouw | Why is this a thing, Microsoft? | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 14:48 | comment | added | udog | This is the answer! | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 20:37 | comment | added | Dan | Been trying to fix this for months, even made 2 full reinstalls which took me like a week (because of all my programs and settings), I kinda have given up and I found this. Thank you so much. | |
| Dec 20, 2017 at 23:42 | comment | added | brettwhiteman | Thank you for putting the time in to discover this (must have taken ages!), works perfectly. Sort your shit out Microsoft. | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 20:10 | comment | added | humanfly | Solved for me as well. I am on 1709 as well. Many Thanks! | |
| Nov 13, 2017 at 15:47 | comment | added | mikew | Solved it for me. I'm on the Fall Creators Update 1709. Thanks so much. | |
| S Nov 8, 2017 at 17:58 | history | suggested | n00b | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added guidance for those users who dont see the UI option to enable apps running in the background
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| Nov 8, 2017 at 13:51 | comment | added | n00b | I did not see this option in the UI, but I was able to enable it via the registry following the instructions here; top-password.com/blog/… . I have edited your answer to include these steps for those that dont have the UI option. Also, I dont know if it helped, but I simultaneously enabled the "Microsoft.Windows.Cortana..." key under the same registry folder (they were set to disabled, and disabledbyuser to 1, and I changed them to 0). | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 13:49 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 27, 2017 at 16:49 | comment | added | gl- | Holy F... Xharlie, you are a total lifesaver! This has been driving me crazy for forever and of course nothing worked (I never tried creating a new user as that's just for the weak : ). It did make sense that it was Creator's update related as it did break around that time. Super props for tracking down the actual cause, such a rare thing. Thanks! | |
| Jul 9, 2017 at 11:23 | comment | added | Hey | Well, this UI makes no sense. Anyone would expect a master switch put on top of several more specific switches to control only said switches, and not some totally unrelated and basic feature of the OS. It's Microsoft being Microsoft, I guess. | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 11:05 | comment | added | Jeremy J Wong | Thanks a heap! +1 good answer - esp for also mentioning that the registry tweaks were not responsible. I too created a new profile.. | |
| May 29, 2017 at 10:59 | comment | added | Xharlie | @Marlon: I haven't submitted it. In my extensive experience, this is not the sort of thing that Microsoft fix. | |
| May 26, 2017 at 23:04 | comment | added | Marlon | Has this been submitted to connect? | |
| May 17, 2017 at 2:18 | comment | added | fIwJlxSzApHEZIl | THANK YOU! Absolute life saver. Microsoft is so frustrating sometimes. | |
| May 13, 2017 at 19:28 | comment | added | jordanbtucker | Thank you. This worked for me with the Creator's update. | |
| May 13, 2017 at 15:47 | history | answered | Xharlie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |