TechProAdvices: How to Fix Can't Type in Windows 10 Search Bar (Cortana & Search Not working error)

Friday, December 7, 2018

How to Fix Can't Type in Windows 10 Search Bar (Cortana & Search Not working error)

Hi, Welcome back today in this basic and quick tutorial post I gonna to show you how to fix the Windows 10 Search box problem.

if you can't tape anything in the Windows 10 search box so here are two easy and simple methods. try one of these two simple methods.

Method 1 Command Prompt

please right-click on start windows and search cmd and then open a command prompt as administrator now copy the first command from below

PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Now hit Enter:

Command 2: Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like "*SystemApps*"} | For each {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

and paste in cmd and then hit the enter key on the keyboard and then copy
the second command from below and wait for a minute then hit the enter key once again now, please wait for some minutes till this process will be completed.

now it has been completed now close the command prompt and try to type in
the search box

now I hope this problem will be solved

if this method didn't work then try this second method

right-click on the taskbar and then open task manager now click on more details and in this window click on the file and then choose the first option run new task here

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type PowerShell and then click OK now copy the command for PowerShell from below and paste in PowerShell

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$manifest = (Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsStore).InstallLocation + '\AppxManifest.xml' ; Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $manifest

and please wait For a while until this process will be completed. after this process will be completed close it PowerShell window and in lat step just restart your pc.

I hope after restarting this error will be fixed.