This fixes the search application, but not the underlining problem which is a faulty system DLL installed by a recent Windows update. The only real fix to this problem is to uninstall (or rollback if not possible) specific updates that breaks some core system (such as Cortana which is, in W10, the core internal part of the search system even if you're not using it).
Hi, just wanted to let you know that rolling back updates did not solve the issue. However, the powershell command luckily did. Is there a way to repair/reinstall those files yourself?
@@soheil5710 The only way I have found is to do a full purge & reinstall Windows from scratch which comes with the ugly pain of having to reinstall everything afterward. (To do a full purge, you need to do a HDD or SSD format of the storage that has Windows installed which also means you'll have to reinstall all the software again even if you got them installed on a separate storage since Windows loose any reference or DLL or Register entries required by those software.) I did tried to even do a soft reinstall of Windows 10 (if you select "Keep Apps & Files" instead of formatting), but that keeps the faulty DLL which returns the problem. A clear install will only works if you're able to install a version AFTER the faulty update that breaks stuff. If your stuff broke with any update from the last 6 months or so, you might have to wait a while before doing a purge & reinstall as Windows might reinstall the same faulty update (in its chain of updates) anyway. If you know which update is at fault, you can look up if there's any major update afterward in Microsoft updates' list chart. If there's a major update, you'll usually have a clear install from that point if you download the latest Windows USB installer flash files.
@@LandonMartin-vn9rb For now, the only way I have found that fixes the problem is to create a new User, copy/paste from 1 C:\Users\[USER NAME] to the other the following folders : AppData, Download, Documents (and other folder with files you want to keep. Just a reminder that you got to set the folder settings to display hidden folder to see the AppData folder.) Then I deleted the original user account and the problem was fixed for the new user. The good part is that doing so (especially copying the AppData content from 1 to the other) allows you to keep about ~80% of the stuff you have previously installed. The remaining ~20% is stuff that couldn't be installed for all users and you got to install it back in. Just quick note: Check if the problem is still on with the new user first before copying/transferring/deleting anything. If the problem persists, your problem might be a different kind than mine.
Just a tip, I didnt need to restart my PC to take effect but this DID work for me. Also worth mentioning that windows troubleshooter is about as useful as a bent screwdriver because the first time it ran the trouble shooter it did something and didnt fix my issue but re prompted the screen asking my issue to which I reselected the issues and ran the troubleshooter again to which it spit me out to a different screen saying it fixed the problem. And surely it did. But only after the 2nd attempt of running the troubleshooter. So yes this worked but it was a little more complicated for me so maybe this comment might help someone. Cheers :)
Thanks, man! You probably just saved me from reinstalling windows 10. The second part of the solution is what did it for me. For some reason, PowerShell would not allow me to paste text, so I had to type it all out by hand, being careful of those odd spaces. But after the restart, that issue was solved as well. Two problems solved for free = like, comment and subscribe.
Bro to paste in powershell press windows+v ,it will open clipboard and then tap the text in clipboard you want to paste and it will automatically paste it.
For anyone like me who gets a full screen that isn't loading when clicking the Windows button when trying to access settings, simply right-click the button instead; the option for Settings will appear in the popup menu. These steps worked! Thanks!
I can't believe a windows troubleshooter not only found a problem, but fixed it. Kind of hilarious i had such little trust in it that I came to youtube
oh my god thank you, ive been doing all this in regedit, i tried launching ctfmon, i was typing some commands in powershell and cmd, even tried rebuilding index, and the first one to restart wsearch helped. thank you so much!
I was a little skeptical, as most of the time tutorials don't work for me. But this was a pleasant surprise! thank you, as I have been having this issue for about a weak and this fixed it instantly. God bless you!
Thank you! All of the methods were followed with an immediate restart and none except the last one worked. Admin Powershell with "get appxpack..." command did the trick. Now if only I could get windows to stop freezing while asleep
Thanks so much. I was really worried that I was infected with a weird virus or malaware that was causing this issue. It was a really annoying situation. So glad I found your video. You are a hero to many.
This was amazing and it worked. At first I didn't understand what you said about the description code. My fault. You meant that there is a code I can copy on the description area of this video. Thank you for this very helpful tutorial. You are doing a great job!
It sadly did not work for me, Yesterday it worked fine but today its all broken, tried restarting it, tried the indexer all things in this video and things online but cant find a fix.
@@Tricknology Much appreciated. My issue is whenever I update from Update Center, after restart it just boots into windows 10 and tells me to update to windows 11. Also Update assistant and iso file methods have failed. I hope there are some other ways or I have to clean install windows 11.
Finally after 3 months and trying all these and more fixes, this simple fix worked, Hurray!!!! Restart Windows Font Cache Service Sometimes, you can resolve Windows Search issues by restarting Windows Font Cache Service. To do this, follow these steps: Windows key+R, enter services.msc to open the Services console. In the right pane, right-click Windows Font Cache Service, and then select Stop. Try to search again. In the Services console, right-click Windows Font Cache Service, and then select Start or Restart.
Thanks a lot, yrr I cannot express how much it helped me. I have watched a lot of tutorials but none of them worked But finally, it's fixed thnx once again. Second method did the magic for me
thank you so much my search bar kept crashing and i thought restarting my pc would work but it didnt since i found this video it works now thank you so much!
My computer is so weird because I’m trying to fix some memory issues, and in order for me to fix the memory issue I have to search and type in command prompt and that’s impossible to do because every time I type something in the search bar it’ll just close on me. And then when I try to go to settings search bar and it’ll freeze up and it will close out and why is it when I try to fix one thing another problem is always occurring. That’s not normal now is it?
My search bar stopped working randomly after i got the fabled blue screen :(. Whatever happened caused my AMD drivers to be messed up so i did clean reinstallation of the amd drivers and then uninstalled a recent windows update which was the latest 21H update and that fixed it.
Also when I opened up settings just to look for Search, I didn’t even see that in the list all I saw was Cortana an Xbox along with some other elements that were showing. I tried typing in search in the settings search bar and that closed out on me too
Dud, things got diff on my pc.while doing the cmd step, around 53% my pc crashed and got a blue screen error and restarted again with diff blue screen error 3 more time, and at last restarted once more.And then on the booting screen, it started diagnosing pc and then started "resolving the disk error",it took sometime ,and then pc turned on and the error gone.😅
me doing these types of cmd and powershell things in school pc and everybody be like omg hacker there and sir ? he knows because he understands the desceiption coming out 😂😂
This fixes the search application, but not the underlining problem which is a faulty system DLL installed by a recent Windows update. The only real fix to this problem is to uninstall (or rollback if not possible) specific updates that breaks some core system (such as Cortana which is, in W10, the core internal part of the search system even if you're not using it).
Hi, just wanted to let you know that rolling back updates did not solve the issue. However, the powershell command luckily did.
Is there a way to repair/reinstall those files yourself?
@@soheil5710 The only way I have found is to do a full purge & reinstall Windows from scratch which comes with the ugly pain of having to reinstall everything afterward. (To do a full purge, you need to do a HDD or SSD format of the storage that has Windows installed which also means you'll have to reinstall all the software again even if you got them installed on a separate storage since Windows loose any reference or DLL or Register entries required by those software.)
I did tried to even do a soft reinstall of Windows 10 (if you select "Keep Apps & Files" instead of formatting), but that keeps the faulty DLL which returns the problem.
A clear install will only works if you're able to install a version AFTER the faulty update that breaks stuff. If your stuff broke with any update from the last 6 months or so, you might have to wait a while before doing a purge & reinstall as Windows might reinstall the same faulty update (in its chain of updates) anyway. If you know which update is at fault, you can look up if there's any major update afterward in Microsoft updates' list chart. If there's a major update, you'll usually have a clear install from that point if you download the latest Windows USB installer flash files.
is this problem still on going, because i cant use my search bar or search anything in the settings?
@@LandonMartin-vn9rb For now, the only way I have found that fixes the problem is to create a new User, copy/paste from 1 C:\Users\[USER NAME] to the other the following folders : AppData, Download, Documents (and other folder with files you want to keep. Just a reminder that you got to set the folder settings to display hidden folder to see the AppData folder.)
Then I deleted the original user account and the problem was fixed for the new user.
The good part is that doing so (especially copying the AppData content from 1 to the other) allows you to keep about ~80% of the stuff you have previously installed. The remaining ~20% is stuff that couldn't be installed for all users and you got to install it back in.
Just quick note: Check if the problem is still on with the new user first before copying/transferring/deleting anything. If the problem persists, your problem might be a different kind than mine.
Can you make a video how to fix it?
Just a tip, I didnt need to restart my PC to take effect but this DID work for me. Also worth mentioning that windows troubleshooter is about as useful as a bent screwdriver because the first time it ran the trouble shooter it did something and didnt fix my issue but re prompted the screen asking my issue to which I reselected the issues and ran the troubleshooter again to which it spit me out to a different screen saying it fixed the problem. And surely it did. But only after the 2nd attempt of running the troubleshooter. So yes this worked but it was a little more complicated for me so maybe this comment might help someone. Cheers :)
Same here, worked perfectly without restarting.
Once again the youtube tutorial with less than 100k views saves the day!
Thanks so much, man, my pc was like that for an hour, it was hell 💪
I've tried every fix on RUclips and it still crashes...this happened as soon as we got the new search bar update that displays weather.
yes same thing happen to me , did u find any fix for that ?
Any fixes?
me too
Same
same here
I tried both, unfortunately it still doesnt work for me :(
Whenever i click it, it opens up for a split second before closing. Any idea?
Does it work now
No it still doesn’t work
@@darylwong6337 If you're not joking try to reset your pc
Not joking. Already tried restarting. I think the problem came about during some windows update 2 years ago.
@@darylwong6337 yeah but have you tried resetting? It's different than restarting
Thanks, man! You probably just saved me from reinstalling windows 10. The second part of the solution is what did it for me. For some reason, PowerShell would not allow me to paste text, so I had to type it all out by hand, being careful of those odd spaces. But after the restart, that issue was solved as well. Two problems solved for free = like, comment and subscribe.
Bro to paste in powershell press windows+v ,it will open clipboard and then tap the text in clipboard you want to paste and it will automatically paste it.
@@bot-fe8yb thanks it worked for me
For anyone like me who gets a full screen that isn't loading when clicking the Windows button when trying to access settings, simply right-click the button instead; the option for Settings will appear in the popup menu. These steps worked! Thanks!
I can't believe a windows troubleshooter not only found a problem, but fixed it. Kind of hilarious i had such little trust in it that I came to youtube
Bro no kid my troubleshooter fixed it too, cuz of lmaooo gof bless
Thank you! Been trying to fix this search issue for a day and a half and nothing i tried worked. 3 minutes later and I'm fixed! :)
oh my god thank you, ive been doing all this in regedit, i tried launching ctfmon, i was typing some commands in powershell and cmd, even tried rebuilding index, and the first one to restart wsearch helped. thank you so much!
You are welcome!
I was a little skeptical, as most of the time tutorials don't work for me. But this was a pleasant surprise! thank you, as I have been having this issue for about a weak and this fixed it instantly. God bless you!
Great to hear!
fixed for me, thank you a lot and good job with the fast and detailed video.
dude I tried 10s of other videos before yours, and yours was the one that did it! thank you so much! I was about to throw my pc out the window lol
You are welcome!
bro, thanks a bajillion for this one you literally just saved me from fac-resetting my computer. take my like
Thanks, its working without restart the computer.
I hope this works i spent 2months watching tutorials and i nearly finished all of them that exist
Thanks a million bro. clicking programs on my desktop was getting annoying.
Thank you a lot! I had this problem for 2 months and I randomly got this video in recommended. Thank you again.
You're welcome!
Worked great! I've been having these problems for so long. Thank you so much.
You're welcome!
What is command
Thank you! All of the methods were followed with an immediate restart and none except the last one worked. Admin Powershell with "get appxpack..." command did the trick. Now if only I could get windows to stop freezing while asleep
You're welcome!
You helped me a lot! The commands did it for me. Liked and Subscribed!
Thanks so much. I was really worried that I was infected with a weird virus or malaware that was causing this issue. It was a really annoying situation. So glad I found your video. You are a hero to many.
You're welcome!
How do I know when it's done@@Tricknology
you are a lifesaver. tysm
omg I thought I am the only one who has this problem. MS great job
This was amazing and it worked. At first I didn't understand what you said about the description code. My fault. You meant that there is a code I can copy on the description area of this video. Thank you for this very helpful tutorial. You are doing a great job!
Glad it helped!
Thanks man you helped a lot
concise, and effective. you solved my problem
Hey man! this fixed my problem. Took awhile but glad I found this video, Thank you!
It sadly did not work for me, Yesterday it worked fine but today its all broken, tried restarting it, tried the indexer all things in this video and things online but cant find a fix.
You saved me from installing new windows Sir thank you
You're welcome!
Thanks so much! I have used this a couple of times already, it worked even before restart!
Glad it helped!
Thank you for this guide, this helped me solve my issue!
You're welcome!
DUDE, YOU'RE GOLDEN, IT WORKED!
It fixed it for me. Thank you very much!
Thanks man it fixed my problem. Keep up the good work. And please make a video on Win 11 update issues.
I will
@@Tricknology Much appreciated. My issue is whenever I update from Update Center, after restart it just boots into windows 10 and tells me to update to windows 11.
Also Update assistant and iso file methods have failed. I hope there are some other ways or I have to clean install windows 11.
Thanks man, first option with search index troubleshooter worked for me.
Glad it helped
it worked, the first solution didn't but the other one worked
i subbed and liked so fast, appreciate it bro even though this was a 2 year old video
Finally after 3 months and trying all these and more fixes, this simple fix worked, Hurray!!!!
Restart Windows Font Cache Service
Sometimes, you can resolve Windows Search issues by restarting Windows Font Cache Service. To do this, follow these steps:
Windows key+R, enter services.msc to open the Services console.
In the right pane, right-click Windows Font Cache Service, and then select Stop.
Try to search again.
In the Services console, right-click Windows Font Cache Service, and then select Start or Restart.
Thanks mate! Worked like a charm.
bro the amount of stress i had was crazyy tysm
Glad I could help
Thanks a lot, yrr I cannot express how much it helped me. I have watched a lot of tutorials but none of them worked
But finally, it's fixed thnx once again. Second method did the magic for me
Most welcome 😊
thank you its working! i was glad it worked. was afraid that i might reinstall my windows. thanks a bunch sir! God bless!
Sir you explained very well and my search bar started working thank you very much sir🙏🙏🙏
still broken. Thx for help anyway.
The second way helped me fix the proplem. Great !
thankyou so much bro im crying, but you the search bar back thankyou😀😀
No problem 😊
You sir, are the man. Thank you for this.
Glad to help
Thank you! the last one method worked!
holy crap thank you so much man! i thought my search bar was done for good
Glad I could help!
Thanks bro! It worked perfectly fine.
You're welcome!
Thanks its working
THE powerShell step helped.
Thanks. The freezing was driving me crazy!
Glad I could help!
For me this is the first tutorial that actually solved a problem i had. Thank you very much!
lol
still works as of 2022!! thank you!
Thanks.this video is very important video.
Thank U Brother Really Worked
Many many thanks .after watching your video, my problem has solved
You are most welcome
thank you so much my search bar kept crashing and i thought restarting my pc would work but it didnt since i found this video it works now thank you so much!
Glad I could help
Thanks Man i was trying to fix this issue and whith this video i fixed it
Common Indian tech support W
My computer is so weird because I’m trying to fix some memory issues, and in order for me to fix the memory issue I have to search and type in command prompt and that’s impossible to do because every time I type something in the search bar it’ll just close on me. And then when I try to go to settings search bar and it’ll freeze up and it will close out and why is it when I try to fix one thing another problem is always occurring. That’s not normal now is it?
You earned my subscription!!
It actually worked, thanks
still not working
Thank you, you helped me so much bro
THANK YOUUU the second method worked for mee ❤
Thanks. I've had the search bar not working a few times and running Windows 10 search troubleshooting fixed the problem every time.
Thank you so much, I appreciate the video 💙
My search bar stopped working randomly after i got the fabled blue screen :(. Whatever happened caused my AMD drivers to be messed up so i did clean reinstallation of the amd drivers and then uninstalled a recent windows update which was the latest 21H update and that fixed it.
Commands did it. Thanks a ton!
bruhhh you're the best dude!
Thanks bro first one worked out 👍👍🤝🙂
Thank you, I'm so frustrated when this happen to me,I just about to crush my laptop 💻, thanks brother 👍👍keep making a great content 😃
Good video, but unfortunately, didn't work for me, I tried everything, every signle video on youtube, search bar will just crash...
A like and a sub just got earned in this video thxs for fixing my search bar
Also when I opened up settings just to look for Search, I didn’t even see that in the list all I saw was Cortana an Xbox along with some other elements that were showing. I tried typing in search in the settings search bar and that closed out on me too
Same problem.
Damn, you are really helping me, thanks
This worked! Thank you
Glad it helped!
First method worked thank you
How long does the powershell process takes?
Thank you, that got it fixed. Let's hope it lasts!
Dud, things got diff on my pc.while doing the cmd step, around 53% my pc crashed and got a blue screen error and restarted again with diff blue screen error 3 more time, and at last restarted once more.And then on the booting screen, it started diagnosing pc and then started "resolving the disk error",it took sometime ,and then pc turned on and the error gone.😅
rollercoaster of emotions lmao
me doing these types of cmd and powershell things in school pc and everybody be like omg hacker there
and sir ? he knows because he understands the desceiption coming out 😂😂
it didnt work for me but i hope it works thanks for sharing what you know anyways
Let me know!!
did u fix it yet and how?
@@REAKZH i didnt fix it. might be that one app that i downloaded but forget the name
KMSPico breaks Windows 10 Search everytime for me
@HumanoidPumpkin I managed to fix it, but I had to try multiple things and restart. Not sure which ended up resolving the problem.
Thanks it worked for me!! 💯
Dude, thank you so much! This worked.
You're welcome!
Thank you brother my search bar is also now working thank you
2nd method worked, thx a lot
You're welcome!
u help me in first method u are really smart
Glad to hear that
Tq soo mutch it will helping to me 🙏🏻 ❤
You're welcome 😊
thanks man you really helped me
The second solution fixed it for me thank you so much!
Thanks man you saved me
My problem is when I open the windows sidebar tab, the search bar at the bottom turns black and idk how to fix it
Bruh none of them worked :(
Thanks a lot! This worked great!
You're welcome!
Thanks bro, it actually worked!
You're welcome!
omg thanks HAHAHAHA, it wasnt working until the last one it worked
ive tried at least 8 different methods and none of them worked, this one didnt either, I have no idea what to do