Missing search tab - File Explorer (Windows 10 - 1909)

Totally agree. MS removed many useful features from W10 and turned it into an inferior product to its predecessor. Not sure who the designers and analysts are, but I would never hire them even to flip burgers. Fortunately for them they have no competition.

HOW ABOUT JUST HAVING IT UP THERE FULL TIME???

Why is that so difficult? I don;t want to have to click in the search to THEN get to click on the search tools tab and THEN click on tyoe of search I want to do.

How does anyone think that is more efficient?
Why not just an option that MAKES IT AVAILABLE FULL TIME.

Worst case is people wasted time figuring out whether to have the tab or not instead of some actual smart person saying "Lets just make a option they can choose easily"

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Hello,

I have installed the latest update of windows 10 (home and pro).

Windows 10 Pro - 1909 (v. 18363.476)

Now the "search" tab is no longer in the folders and I can't clear the search history either. Where is this tab?!

I have not used the advanced search feature in Windows for a long time, ( read, "since I was running windows 7" )

After a lot of excellent yet useless  information from a lot of websites ( rendered useless to the reader by virtue of the simple error of having  left out the most important first step of the how-to search process)  I discovered the following very basic missing step by trial and error:

All you need to do is open File Explorer and enter any word, (or a text string of any sort)  into the search window in the top right search pane and hit "enter" or click the right-side arrow.  Presto, the advanced search tab appears at the top of the window, exactly where it should be, and with date search etc. available.  Typical of Microsoft to take something that once was, and still should be extremely simple, and allow the codies to "improve"  it into something decidedly not-simple and ludicrously hard to figure out, until you figure it out yourself the hard way as a user. A bit of a catch-22 I would say.  When you change something this basic, and do not document it  to the user base, it is pretty obvious by the huge number of posts on a multitude of websites that a pretty big gaffe  was made by Microsoft, and still not fixed. I imagine  it just seems obvious, but evidently it is not.  Hopefully they fix this in an update at some point. Very time-expensive  for a lot of folks, as we can see by the huge number of posts ......... I hope my own post here helps someone else avoid the time-waste.

Totally agree.  Every year there are more issues to spend hours, sometimes days, trying to research then, finding out they won't even acknowledge the problem exists or they don't provide a fix anyway.