2862

All I got from that article is that MS ran part of Shutup10 for me :) All the screenshots in that thread look like how I expect things to work. Hah!

(I do run Shutup10, and have all Cortana stuff disabled by choice - if I want to search the web, I’ll use a browser).

2863

Before the update, I would search in the bar and any word I put in there would go through my music, downloads, documents, pictures and etc. and would show up.

Now, when i put something in there… the only thing will show up is sometimes an application, nothing else. I have to tell it to search in the music folder, for example, for an artist or it won’t find it. Cortana has no language selected and the only English options I have are non-USA English which it doesn’t like because it doesn’t match my region. It’s like it’s half there and only functioning… sort of.

And the web-search, I had that turned off before. There is no option to turn it is on or off now, but it definitely not searching the web either.

I can’t speak for your experience, but mine is the update broke my searching and no amount of indexing is fixing it.

2864

Try running shutup10 and enabling the cortana switches. Maybe that will work.

2865

Isn’t that supposed to be some sort of antispyware thing? I can also use it to get Win 10 to search the way Win 10 is supposed to search?

2866

So this is me. It looks like I have some sort of unfixable bug… Great!

For some the glass is 1/2 empty, for others… :)

(I don’t use nor plan to use Cortana)

2867

You don’t have a choice with the update, but we seem to be kind of screwed if it’s broken.

2868

That depends on what you mean by cortana. Cortana technically handles local filesystem searches in the AU too, so it’s true that you can’t get rid of that. But you probably want that, I know I do. I have everything else disabled-- there is no “ask me anything” box, she can’t connect to the internet, doesn’t look through my appointments or answer questions, etc.

2869

If I go info Windows Explorer and I type something like Spartacus, it will find nothing, literally nothing. I have to go to my documents folder and tell it look for a document and then it will find something. it’s the same behavior in the Search Windows as it is in Windows Explorer. It’s like it’s lost it’s ability to search for files unless I tell it to look right here, where i know it is…

This is different behavior. And before the update, I had Cortana turned off… and it searched fine.

2870

Right, yours is actually broken. It’s not supposed to work that way.

2871

More of an unexpected convenience. I’d never have noticed it was broken. Well, either they’ll patch in a fix, or for those few souls intrested in Cortana, I imagine a reinstall will be in order.

From the Start menu I can search. I don’t get much unless I tap the search category (ie documents), but then it seems to find everything.

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2872

Try going into indexing options and resetting the index. That might do it. Also check that your documents folders are in there.

2873

It spent all night indexing. I actually have two document folders. I am not sure if that is right or not. I assigned my original documents folder to my storage drive instead of my SSD, standard practice, but all of them are listed as part of the search. If i filter to just documents… it finds it… that just shouldn’t be necessary.

It’s also weird because if i force it to find it, like say hey look at this Spartacus docx and filter to only find documents… it’s finds it as part of a Recent Document search… but it won’t find anything that way if the first word of the file isn’t the word in the search which is really obnoxious.

2874

Ahh. Well, my other suggestion was to try enabling all of the cortana flags in Shutup10. Give that a shot.

2875

Yup.

2876

Yes, Windows 10 home here. It’s the computer I logged the registry access on, and tested it on, that identified this possibility. Thumbs up!

I had downloads scheduled and the computer on automatic sleep last night. Booted up this morning and zing zap pow, no fade in, no lock screen. Perfection.

2877

Oh so it does work on win10 home? Cool! Bunch of people said it didn’t.

2878

Gotta admit, having a command-line bash shell is pretty cool. No more having to install cygwin.

2879

Is that live now? I tried googling it but the only articles I found were about enabling bash in a preview built from back in April.

2880

Yes, it’s live.

2881

Bash is not installed by default. You install it from Programs and Features -> Turn Windows Features on or off.

You also have to go to Settings -> Update and Security -> For Developers, and select Developer mode

A shortcut to bash.exe called “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows” will be created for you, which you can pin to your taskbar or start menu.