File Explorer search Current folder option doesn't work

Thanks Tokarii93,

This ridiculous tweak you describe does the job. I still don't know why MS cannot solve the problem in a proper manner. For me it suddenly occured after my last big update last summer - see my other posts. I didnt' have it before. Back before then I could still select first. I (sort of) accepted that even this official forum wcouldn't resolve it and lived with until the lastest update, 20H2 19042.746, hoping that that would fix it. As it didn't I returned and found your tweak.

Super! Thanks again.

Lets see if MS fixes it so that the search tab becomes available with the two options actually functioning again, before you search.

A basic feature every OS has it working since their beta versions... MS can't solve it in a freaking whole YEAR.

This is beyond pathetic.

amazing, that did the trick, this should be posted on top as it's the solution.  Thanks Matthew!

THANK YOU, Method #1 worked and fixed the search failure issue for me. Now I can search inside specific folders and actually get results and find specific docs I am looking for. Finding this answer took nearly 20 minutes of browsing the forums and web links - seems a lot of people are looking for THIS answer going as far back as 2016, but their posts still say "answer needed". I also noticed a lot of "some people just don't like change" replies in those discussions on this exact topic, but "search not working" is not a change issue, its a "failure to perform" its duty issue. I hope those looking for their answer end up on this page like I did. I wrote the methods down in case it happens again.

For me, this search issue only started after the recent update. My system is:

Windows 10, v 20H2

(OS Build 19042.867)

Reason I ended up here: I have a "Lyrics" folder full of Word docs titled "LYRICS (and the song title)". Today, April 11th, 2021, I used the search field in this folder to find specific song, but while every Word doc starts with "LYRIC" , when I type the title I am looking for, that I can clearly see in the folder, or even type just the word "Lyric" into said search field it says "No items match your search" while I am looking at dozens of docs titled "Lyrics _ _ _ _ ".

Now that I followed Method 1, above, it works fine. Thanks again.

All that is very fine and nice. But the main issue remains that that WORKAROUND provided is nowhere close to an official SOLUTION from the guys that CREATED THE ISSUE in the first place. Yes, I'm talking to you, Microsoft.

And I suspect that if anyone of us performed like this in our respective jobs, we'd be fired in much, much less time than the FIVE YEARS it's been like this.