Windows 10 Anniversary Update - Dialog suggestions not working anymore

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after the last windows 10 Update there are no more suggestions in my windows dialogs. Currently I had to enable inline autocomplete to have anything available but I'm just not shown anything else.

Any idea how to enable this again?

Sample: I'm missing this: (not actual screenshot, sample taken of the web) Image Instead there is no box (at the bottom of the file space) displayed at all.

[EDIT] http://www.crlf.ch/sample/missingSuggestions.jpg As you can see the suggestions/history box is missing completely. This is also the case in save dialogs of firefox/chrome and such.

s.i.d

Posted 2016-10-06T08:15:18.937

Reputation: 3

And do you see any files that match the already given characters in that same directory in your save-dialog? A screenshot from the web isn't useful. We need to see what YOU see. – Rik – 2016-10-06T08:20:18.963

My guess if you give it time it will work, but the list was cleared, due to how the installation of the update works (I.e I am saying this is expected behavior) – Ramhound – 2016-10-06T12:02:09.523

Search indexing is finished: http://crlf.ch/sample/missingSuggestions.jpg

I've activated inline autocomplete to work around temporarily.

– s.i.d – 2016-10-06T12:04:10.093

@s.i.d Yikes, that's annoying. B.T.W. it's not a combined suggestions/history box. The history sits in the down-arrow drop-down-box at the right (and should stil work). The suggestion drop-up/down is a completely different one and used for possible file-matches (suggestions). In that other screenshot you can also see the suggestion drop-up/down box is just a little but less wide. When you use the history dropdown you'll see it's as wide as the edit-box itself (while the suggestion-box is not). – Rik – 2016-10-07T12:18:34.000

@Rik I've never even saw the little arrow on the right, the box is still there but does nut auto expand when i type, is there any setting for this? – s.i.d – 2016-10-07T13:40:27.473

@s.i.d. Not that I'm aware of. The history never auto-expands for me. You can press Alt+Down arrow to open it up. It will only be filled up with valid choices done earlier. The suggestion-box with the matching files (from character which you already typed) is the only drop-down box which should appear automatically (but doesn't for you, somehow). – Rik – 2016-10-07T13:46:58.723

It is not the same alltough, the history shows alway the COMPLETE history not the one matching my entry... no ideas?? – s.i.d – 2016-10-11T09:37:09.090

Answers

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(Ok, I'm going to move the discussion into an answer because I've found a setting which might cause you your problems)

I think your "Auto Suggest" is turned off somehow. You can check this by doing this:

  • Open Internet Explorer
  • Click/tap on Tools (Menu bar)
  • Click on Internet Options
  • Click/tap on the Content tab
  • Click/tap on the Settings button under AutoComplete (see screenshot below)

Internet Options > AutoComplete settings

You can check if the settings are the same as mine. If they are not, then that's the problem. (For me, unticking the "Address bar" checkbox gave me the exact symptoms you have)

Solution found on Sevenforums.com

Rik

Posted 2016-10-06T08:15:18.937

Reputation: 11 800

That did the trick!! I did something similar before but it didnt work correctly (just inline). - Thanks Rik!! – s.i.d – 2016-10-11T13:01:39.873

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