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Discord: reverieviee: Thanks for reporting, I’m currently looking into this
Discord: thezanar: Should I provide my tweak list that did?
Discord: reverieviee: Yeah, can you actually go to %LocalAppData%\winutil\logs in file explorer and send me your log files through DMs? That’ll tell me everything you did in winutil so far. I have a few hypotheses but only your logs would help me confirm
Discord: thezanar: Alright, just a moment please
Discord: reverieviee: Take your time!
Discord: thezanar: check your DM’s!
Discord: reverieviee: Just went through them all. Two questions, if you hover over the blank panel, does it highlight invisible items? And, you recently did an update from 24H2 to 25H2 (based on your logs), did this happen before updating too or just recently?
Discord: thezanar: just yesterday i acquired this laptop. windows was pre-installed with 24h2, only today i updated it to 25h2. it does not highlight invisible items but the mouse changes when i move in the window and at some point it opened other app
Discord: reverieviee: Yeah, good news then
Discord: reverieviee: The fact that clicking launches apps means your search actually works, the panel just isn’t showing you anything. That’s a rendering problem, not an indexing one. Try these in order
Discord: reverieviee: 1. Open PowerShell and run Stop-Process -Name SearchHost -Force. The search panel process restarts itself. Open search and try again
2. If it’s still blank, run Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.Windows.Search | Reset-AppxPackage (if that returns nothing, run Get-AppxPackage *Search* and tell me what it lists). This will reset the app’s UI which could fix any broken files
Discord: reverieviee: And if its still not fixed after those two, let me know as this could mean a broader issue not just search
Discord: thezanar: 1) after restarting it kinda showed the line like loading but still nothing
2) second operation gave me nothing, and that’s the result of Get-AppxPackage Search
Discord: thezanar: sorry about the file but the discord does not allow long messages
Discord: reverieviee: You’re good, quick question
Discord: reverieviee: do the Start menu and the quick-settings flyouts (volume/wifi) open normally?
Discord: thezanar: yes they do start and open normally
Discord: reverieviee: Hmm, yeah it seems like the regular Search package is absent which is odd. We can target BingSearch though, it might be the culprit. Run these commands in PowerShell (Admin)
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.BingSearch | Reset-AppxPackage
Stop-Process -Name SearchHost -Force
If that doesn’t fix it then re-register instead of reset in the same admin window
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.BingSearch | ForEach-Object { Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" }
Discord: reverieviee: If search is still blank after those, then I’d try creating a new user account and testing if search works fine there or not (this confirms if its system-wide or only per-user)