It does once you put something like datecreated:this year in the search box
File Explorer search not working in Windows 10 1909
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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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2020-01-27T08:18:39+00:00 I'm pretty sure I've found a fix. I ran into this problem when installing a theme on Windows 10 and it hasn't happened since using this. https://mega.nz/#!5ptE0CxB!tAdYmz9b6478yrvr6DPfzKOeP0xThdG-bxs8jLcG79M Here's the download link. It's a .cmd file, and running it disabled the new search in Windows 10. There's also an included option to get it back. (Why would you want to though?)
https://virtualcustoms.net/showthread.php/84200-Width-of-address-bar-%281909%29?highlight=1909 Here is the original source. Props to whoever made it from this thread. Again the instructions are: Download the file from the mega link, run the disable new search bat file, and wallah it's done. Run the enable new search to get it back. Let me know if it works for you guys!
^Here is a virus total for the disable new search.cmd file.
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Anonymous
2020-01-26T17:47:08+00:00 I just posted a solution which worked for at least one other person since I posted it just the other day, give that a try.
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Anonymous
2020-01-26T15:46:25+00:00 Actually, a word of warning. I just read you cannot go back from a windows preview build, so make a backup of your OS before you do it, if you do it.
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Anonymous
2020-01-26T15:39:19+00:00 In case you are confused as I was to @neilpzz 2004 response (thank you) - which made me think Windows 2004 or something backwards, after a quick web search, I found that this. https://pureinfotech.com/windows-10-2003-20h1-2020-update-features/ which talks about
"Windows 10 version 2004, May 2020 Update, will be the ninth major refresh since the original release that Microsoft is planning to release sometime in spring 2020 with new features and improvements."
I have windows preview build running on my laptop for some time now. I might actually switch my desktop production build to the preview build to solve the problem and later change it back.
Again, seems FAR away for such a critical issue. I would have thought they could have least patched this issue in the meantime which feels to me as though it is something far simpler of a bug.
But thanks again for passing along this information.