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Ever since I updated to Windows 10 1909 the Search Box in the File Explorer is completely unuseable. It shows a text cursor but I cannot click inside the box or type any text into it. Essentially it's a text box with no "wiring".
Any ideas how to resolve this issue? I'm having to resort to using a third-party search app just to find files in my projects.
Kind regards
Byron
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looks like a new Cumulative update was released today, so maybe issue got fixed? update is downloading now, so i will post back when i find out, one way or another.
update: don't what the update was for, but it did not fix this weird issue i posted about.
I encountered what might be a new twist on the search issue. and it's happening on my PC, which did not have any issues with the search box previously.
the latest update, which supposedly fixed the issue, did in fact add the cut and paste and so on right click menu back to the search box but, about 50% of the time i see this instead of the cut & paste menu.
it's very weird, right?
the old computer (as I stated previously) was running win10 PRO 1803. the new computer is running windows 10 Pro 1909 (as stated in my last post) the issues did not crop up on my moms new PC in 1909 until the data transfer took place. I am not saing the issue was caused by the data transfer software, i am saying the issue was caused by the data transfer.
my personal machine which is the same model and same specs as the one posted about, and is also running 1909, but has never had any data transferred, does not have any issues with explorer searches. the machinee i posted about that had the data transfer, also had no issues until the data transfer was performed.
the old PC was moved to win 10 pro from win 7 ultimate back in 2015 when win 10 first came out.
my mom's new PC (and mine) came with win 10 1803 and was upgraded to win 10 Pro 1909
I have also encountered this problem. I tried many things that were suggested here and still the problem persists on multiple machines. And now as the 10 days have passed for me to revert back to the previous install of Windows 10 I have to wait for Microsoft to fix it themselves. Anybody got any ideas on what to try? Thanks in advance!
Actually.. I'm not entirely sure that this problem is caused by the November Windows 10 update.
Perhaps that aggravates a problem which really goes back some way in Windows 7. I have to continue using Windows 7 sometimes, as we have customers still using it, and, today, I was reminded that Explorer would often hide the Search box in that OS, too - it completely disappears, not just disabled, but each Explorer window is [un]affected individually. I have Explorer running 'separate processes' on both OSs. Closing the faulty one on Windows 7, and opening a new one suffices there. For a while.
I have also seen the Windows 10 Search box get grayed as I tabbed to that window (files had just been added to the folder), and then un-gray itself a few seconds later.
I had to back-out the most recent update, as, on restart, it had cleared my desktop of everything except the Recycle bin and Edge, and failed to reopen the folders or run the startup apps. No way I was going to continue with a version that buggy, even if it does actually fix Search.
