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No Start Search, no Win+F, but Constrained Search works?
Wow, have I been bashing my head on a brick wall with this problem. Been lurking here for a while, great site.
In a nutshell, my search field on the Win7 Start menu returns no results. If I click "see more results" it returns "Windows cannot find 'search:query=search string'. Note that this is not the 'Showing only category headers' problem. Search returns a big, white box with "No items match your search" and "See more results" no matter what you type.
Win+F simply does nothing (I've only just noticed this).
Constrained search in Explorer works fine (!).
I've tried:
The built in search troubleshooter - no problems detected. The MS downloaded troubleshooter - no problems detected. Deleting a bunch of registry keys and restarting the service (detailed here), service starts up fine, start search still non-functional. I've been mucking around, rebuilding indexes, trawling the web for anything, but alas, any offered solutions I have come across do not make any difference.
I'm not entirely sure how this happened - SP1 maybe? A reg cleaner? One of the two possibly.
I'm at a complete loss. I've just tried to do a reinstall following the guide that's around here somewhere. I've a 30gig SSD primary boot drive. Windows wants 15gig free to reinstall. Not going to happen considering the Windows directory is 10gig. I'd rather not clean reinstall for such a 'minor' problem, but I really miss that neat feature.
Any help provided greatly appreciated!
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