win11reluctant
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- Windows 11 Pro Version 23H2 OS Build 22631.3447
My Windows 11 PC/Desktop machine is in a state where windows search, as invoked by “windows-Key <search text>”, isn’t working right.
If I put a shortcut to an app. into. C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu then search doesn’t find it. However, this problem only occurs for one local user account, let’s call it “user3”. For other logins, like “user1”, an admin local account, or “user2”, another non-admin local account, there are no search problems.
This problem started recently. Was working fine before.
Don’t know what caused it but have been wondering if it was triggered by changing behavior of Windows 11 Calendar app. I activated “Try the New Outlook” in Calendar, which led to the local user3 account becoming attached to my Microsoft account. I didn’t want that, so switched it back later. But now I’m stuck with Search not working right in that one account. I don’t know for a fact that the search breakage was related to the Calendar thing. Just speculating.
In any case, am now in a state where, for this local account “user 3”, Search doesn’t find shortcuts in Start Menu or Start Menu / Programs. I did try rebuilding the search index but that had no effect. I actually didn’t expect it to have any effect since Start Menu is a machine global folder and searching it works fine for the other accounts.
I also tried “sfc /scannow” and “DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth”. But they found nothing.
Another thing I noticed was that if I put shortcuts on the user3 desktop, search finds them OK. Almost like search from user3 can find things in its own file space but not in a machine wide file space like C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu.
OS version is Win11 23H2 build 22631.3593.
What I’m experiencing is a little bit like this
Redirecting
But I’ve tried what was suggested there and it had no affect.
Any ideas?
If I put a shortcut to an app. into. C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu then search doesn’t find it. However, this problem only occurs for one local user account, let’s call it “user3”. For other logins, like “user1”, an admin local account, or “user2”, another non-admin local account, there are no search problems.
This problem started recently. Was working fine before.
Don’t know what caused it but have been wondering if it was triggered by changing behavior of Windows 11 Calendar app. I activated “Try the New Outlook” in Calendar, which led to the local user3 account becoming attached to my Microsoft account. I didn’t want that, so switched it back later. But now I’m stuck with Search not working right in that one account. I don’t know for a fact that the search breakage was related to the Calendar thing. Just speculating.
In any case, am now in a state where, for this local account “user 3”, Search doesn’t find shortcuts in Start Menu or Start Menu / Programs. I did try rebuilding the search index but that had no effect. I actually didn’t expect it to have any effect since Start Menu is a machine global folder and searching it works fine for the other accounts.
I also tried “sfc /scannow” and “DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth”. But they found nothing.
Another thing I noticed was that if I put shortcuts on the user3 desktop, search finds them OK. Almost like search from user3 can find things in its own file space but not in a machine wide file space like C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu.
OS version is Win11 23H2 build 22631.3593.
What I’m experiencing is a little bit like this
Redirecting
But I’ve tried what was suggested there and it had no affect.
Any ideas?
- Windows Build/Version
- Win11 23H2 build 22631.3593.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11 Pro Version 23H2 OS Build 22631.3447
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- PowerSpec B734
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics 3.80
- Memory
- 16.0 GB (15.4 GB usable)
