I found that the keyboard did not work for any Windows 10 Modern Apps, just for the traditional desktop apps. I could only click on the numbers, but could not type them. As I never use Modern Apps, I first had to load one (I chose 'Calculator'), and - Bingo! - I could not enter any numbers via the keyboard. I started to suspect that it could be a Windows 10 'Modern Apps' issue. Notepad, Excel etc.) just not in the searches. It looked like a keyboard issue, not a search issue.īut the keyboard worked in any application (e.g.

Run system file checker (SFC) to search for currupted filesĪfter some hours of poking around, I found that I could right-click in the search field and paste the contents of the clipboard! And I saw the correct search results.

Run the 'Search and Indexing' Troubleshooter.

Re-install Cortana (keyboard search should also work without Cortana, so that did not help).

Unfortunately, from all the suggestions, nothing worked for me: There are lots people with the same or similar issues as can be seen from a simple Internet search 'win 10 taskbar search not working'.

Can't type to search in Win 10 App Store.

I'm beginning to see why so many of my friends are refusing to install Windows 10.Īfter I had done some changes in Windows 10 to make it faster and less 'chatty' to Microsoft (switch off Telemetry, switch off error reporting etc.) I could not use search any more.

It too fails, but with undocumented error code. The following day, an optional update showed up - Upgrade to I.E. Suspecting IE11 upgrade failed because my IE10 was downlevel, I retried the IE11. Next day, an update for IE 10 arrived, after one failed update, the second try worked. (I'm leaving out all the tedious try this try that with reboots over & over) At least I have the input boxes back with IE10 EXE package) it kept failing with no error code, no clueĪs to why. Worse - the re-install of IE 11 (from the DL'd. Uninstalled it to find my IE10 back, and no 'remembered' passwords! (ARG) I found it in the updates, from a year ago. Had to drop the Window 10 error, and fix my IE11 issue of not being able to enter in any box.įinding that I couldn't re-install IE11, I had to UNINSTALL it. It has NOT showed up on my machine, but I found about 5 errors for W10, which has noĬorresponding trace of any Updates/Upgrades having been loaded. Happened while trying to resolve why I was getting the 'upgrade' error for Windows 10. Oddly, the same thing happened to me last week - but on 7 home!! IE11

Search bar in ie 11