Windows 11 File Explorer no longer remembers search history; how to reenable?

Microsoft hired idiots. Things worked find then they screwed with Explorer (file mgmt) and Win 11 total sucks. It takes me an extra hour daily to do the same win 10 tasks. Thinking about going to Linux. Also I can't search an internal drive on my desktop with Win 11 without total hell. I have to go 2 rooms away to search for my photos because Win 11 doesn't allow searching internal drives on the host desktop. I have 350,000 photos and if I don't know the EXACT FOLDER the photo is in, I can't find it. Now with the new horrid explorer, it's even hard and it erases the search.

Some of the solutions to fix it above are ludicrous. If the problems happened when the added home and made finding faves in the quick access menu, total living hell, then it can't be malware. If it is not broken, why fix (change) it?

FIRE the designer. My blood pressure is skyrocket do to these incompetent employees.

I also tried the above steps when they were first posted and they do not work.

YES!!!! AGREE.

After reading multiple message threads from people complaining that seach on Windows 11 is not working, I have determined that the most likely problem is due to disk cloning. When most people clone their Windows drive, they will typically chnage the boot sequence in BIOS to the new drive and keep their old Windows drive connected to the system in case there are issues with the new drive. Unfortunately, this leaves two disks on the system with the same volume ID. Windows search indexes the old D: drive but does not allow the new C: drive to be added to the search index even when the C: drive is manually added to the search index. To resolve the problem and keep the old drive connected to the system, use the DOS CMD command in administrative mode to force delete the partitions on the old drive (delete partition override). Note that the first time the system and reserved partition is deleted, a single merged partition is created which will need to be force deleted again. You will then be able to create a single D: partition on your old drive using Windows Create and Format Hard Disk partitions. Once you have reformatted your old D: drive, you can go into Settings==>Privacy & security==>Classic Customize search locations==>Modify and you can now add the folders in C: drive you want to index. Once you take OK, it will take awhile for Windows to index the C: drive.

Microsoft MVPs, can you please add this solution to the search index message threads because many users who are cloning their drive are encountering this issue?

I think you are 100% correct. This thinking is perfectly in line with how they do not even inform new windows users of which libraries in their file explorer are automatically linked to Onedrive when they first open their computer. I remember hours of frustration trying to figure out how I could possibly have my computer hard drive not be affected by changes to files online and also -and I know this is a radical hot take- to have my hard drive on my computer and not accessible by anyone or anything else anywhere. Never even got close to figuring out how to do it, I just never used the main libraries of my file explorer system.

This is like all the push by the government to a cashless society, criminalization of cash etc. Sure, the world will eventually get there. But it ain't there yet. The fact that they might be making things a modicum more convenient, is still not worth my every single transaction being accessible to big government.

Deprecate search on my device because you want it all in the cloud, HA! never gonna happen, MS