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Last night I fiddled around with some settings, and now Windows 10 refuses to search my settings. If I search "Settings" it returns a result, if I search Notepad and Chrome - it works fine. But if I search "Activate" or "Update" or "Personalization" - it returns nothing until I press enter and wait a while. How can I restore the settings?
The settings I fiddle around were indexing settings. There's only one item checked now - "Start Menu", and the rest of the settings seem fine, but obviously something's wrong. How can I solve this?
There is no CrawlScopeManager on Win10, unfortunately. – Jack – 2015-08-27T15:18:52.480
What did you use to open the registry? What the top existing key do you have in the aforementioned branch? – Neurotransmitter – 2015-08-30T18:51:59.710
I used regedit, but it didn't work, so I had to install the program that you recommended. And actually this time around I DID find the key in the registry. I'm not sure why I didn't the last time I looked - either it for some reason wasn't there or I overlooked it somehow. Either way, the search is working perfectly now, thank you! – Jack – 2015-08-30T19:29:23.523
For some reason, the system
regedit
sometimes is unable to show certain registry keys (for example when it is run by some system user). I think this is a permissions issue. Third party registry editors to the rescue. – Neurotransmitter – 2015-08-31T07:58:12.7934Some people might have been browsing for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft/ Windows \Windows Search\ which does exist and is why they didn't see the registry key. – Randy Levy – 2016-03-19T16:21:19.370
Did you try rebuilding the search index before hacking away at the registry? http://www.winbeta.org/news/how-rebuilding-your-search-index-windows-10
– carlin.scott – 2016-04-24T17:52:24.647Sure I did, it didn't worked. – Neurotransmitter – 2016-04-24T18:22:47.163
You don't need a third party tool to delete the branch. It's simply a permissions issue. Right click the folder, select "Permissions", "advanced", make yourself owner, then add yourself to the "permission entries" with "full control" and delete the folder... – Wouter – 2017-02-23T10:35:00.773
Also, tried this on windows 10... doesn't seem to work. – Wouter – 2017-02-23T10:37:48.197
There is another solution over here that seems to work for most users: http://superuser.com/questions/950102/what-do-i-have-to-index-in-order-to-search-the-windows-control-panel-in-win10/1182041#1182041
– Wouter – 2017-02-23T16:46:14.480@Wouter well, it only got 3 upvotes... – Neurotransmitter – 2019-12-13T09:11:53.993