File Explorer search not working in Windows 10 1909

That seems to be working for me now. Do you by any chance no how to search by date like today's date?  I know I should be happy that I have one solution but I am greedy. Thank you.

A bug relating to the Search box does not yet appear on Microsoft's official list of known v.1909 bugs. This means one of two things:

1- Microsoft has not yet received enough reports from users or, at least, enough reports with sufficiently similar characteristics to identify a bug; or

2- Microsoft is aware that a bug might exist, but has not yet been able to identify exactly what is going wrong and what needs to be fixed.

Windows Updates go through extensive testing by millions of Windows Insiders, but that number is only a tiny fraction of the 800+ million devices that run Windows 10. There's no way that Microsoft can determine with certainty how an update will affect 800+ million users.

Furthermore, it is inevitable that a huge and complex project like Windows will have bugs. This should come as no surprise. If anything, it's surprising that there aren't more bugs.

From this experience there are two lessons to be learned:

1- It's very important to report potential bugs via the established bug reporting mechanism, since that's the only way for Microsoft to hear about them. Moaning in a community forum, and posting threats and vile insults accomplishes nothing.

2- The vast majority of users should follow the conventional wisdom that has been around since before Windows came into existence: Don't jump on a major update when it's first released.  Knowledgeable users have been following this advice since forever.

Most users should wait 3 or 4 months, at least, before installing major updates. This gives corporate IT departments and other professional testers an opportunity to discover early bugs and report them to Microsoft; and gives Microsoft an opportunity to fix them.

For Windows 10 users in particular, there is a third lesson:

3- Let Windows Update install updates, instead of going to Microsoft's website and installing them yourself. Windows Update incorporates the latest information from Microsoft on the success of updates - or the lack of success - and can save us much heartache by preventing updates that might harm a computer. It is by no means a perfect process, but it's a heck of a lot better than installing without it.

Finally, it's important to understand that Windows 10 is a continuous series of updates. That's how it was designed from the very beginning. Microsoft was careful to publicize this while Windows 10 was in development and it was widely discussed in the media at the time. Updates are not going away, so for those of us who have yet to come up to speed with how to deal with them, now would be a very good time to do that.

Windows search is very much broken.

I have a few instances of file explorer open. In a few of them I can search any file and text string in any folder, local c drive, my local data drive as well as mapped drives on other systems on the lan.

This works with OR without indexing enabled or windows search service running.

If I open a new instance of file explorer, that instance will NOT search any thing any where.

I have tried all the "normal" listed fixes that are nothing but a waste of time.

sfc

troubleshooter

ending cortana

stopping and starting search service

enabling and or disabling indexing

verifying none of the drives or folders in question are excluded from indexing for times it is enabled

enabling or disabling of the open files in new window folder property

enabling or disabling of including filenames or content of non indexed folders

Notice I stated clearly, in some file explorer instances I CAN search and some I can not, same folders etc. In the instances that do not work, the search box shows, just does not allow imput

A bug relating to the Search box does not yet appear on Microsoft's official list of known v.1909 bugs. [... snip ...]

1- It's very important to report potential bugs via the established bug reporting mechanism, since that's the only way for Microsoft to hear about them. 

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It might be helpful if you mentioned an 'established bug reporting mechanism'.

Do you consider the Feedback Hub (built into Win10) to be one such path? If not, how would you expect the users and IT support people of this thread to know where such an established path is?

Moaning in a community forum, and ... 

If Microsoft has no means at all of even automatically crawling these community threads to build up metrics of common pain points, then I wonder what they believe the value of these community areas are even for: just a place for us to **** among ourselves? 

If MS provides a forum for our voices, you'd think they would have some form of listening.

Chris