Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10

scottalanmiller

I need to access the Disk Manager in Windows 10. But the user has removed ALL search functions. How do you open it without that? LOL

scottalanmiller

So in our situation, we had to open PowerShell and run diskmgmt.msc and it was able to open it. You have to have the full name.

This came about because someone installed some "Classic Shell" hijack software that removes all of the Windows Vista and later functionality to find tools. So the system is almost entirely broken.

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

So in our situation, we had to open PowerShell and run diskmgmt.msc and it was able to open it. You have to have the full name.

This came about because someone installed some "Classic Shell" hijack software that removes all of the Windows Vista and later functionality to find tools. So the system is almost entirely broken.

You could also hit the "Windows" key + r, then type that in the run box and hit enter.

thwr

or right-click on the Start menu button

scottalanmiller

@thwr said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

or right-click on the Start menu button

Right... but she removed all that from the Start Menu There's no standard start menu there at all.

thwr

or just run mmc.exe and add (CTRL+M) the disk management snap-in

thwr

@scottalanmiller said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

@thwr said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

or right-click on the Start menu button

Right... but she removed all that from the Start Menu There's no standard start menu there at all.

hehe

jmoore

diskmgmt.msc

scottalanmiller

@Obsolesce said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

@scottalanmiller said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

So in our situation, we had to open PowerShell and run diskmgmt.msc and it was able to open it. You have to have the full name.

This came about because someone installed some "Classic Shell" hijack software that removes all of the Windows Vista and later functionality to find tools. So the system is almost entirely broken.

You could also hit the "Windows" key + r, then type that in the run box and hit enter.

Only if you have the full name. diskmgmt.msc will work that way, diskmgmt will not. We tried.

black3dynamite

Windows Key + X, Press A for Windows PowerShell (Admin)
In powershell, type diskmgmt.msc

scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

Windows Key + X, Press A for Windows PowerShell (Admin)

Tried that, too. But we were remote and the system didn't pass that through.

black3dynamite

Here's a crazy one for you.

Windows Key + r, powershell -command "start-process diskmgmt.msc -verb runas"

scotth

@scottalanmiller said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

@black3dynamite said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

Windows Key + X, Press A for Windows PowerShell (Admin)

Tried that, too. But we were remote and the system didn't pass that through.

Isn't right click on the ~~menu~~ start button the same as Windows Key + X?

black3dynamite

Open File Explorer and enter powershell -command "start-process diskmgmt.msc -verb runas" in the address bar.

scottalanmiller

@scotth said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

@scottalanmiller said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

@black3dynamite said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

Windows Key + X, Press A for Windows PowerShell (Admin)

Tried that, too. But we were remote and the system didn't pass that through.

Isn't right click on the ~~menu~~ start button the same as Windows Key + X?

But we don't have the start button anymore.

scotth

@scottalanmiller said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

@scotth said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

@scottalanmiller said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

@black3dynamite said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

Windows Key + X, Press A for Windows PowerShell (Admin)

Tried that, too. But we were remote and the system didn't pass that through.

Isn't right click on the ~~menu~~ start button the same as Windows Key + X?

But we don't have the start button anymore.

That majorly sucks

thwr

Or with a simple cmd shell...

C:\WINDOWS\system32>mmc diskmgmt.msc

thwr

Ha... this should work every time:

CTRL-ALT-DEL
Taskmanager
File -> Exec new task (or whatever it is called in English)
mmc diskmgmt.msc (or mmc.exe or ...)

scotth

@thwr said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10:

Ha... this should work every time:

CTRL-ALT-DEL

Taskmanager

File -> Exec new task (or whatever it is called in English)

mmc diskmgmt.msc (or mmc.exe or ...)

You could also run explorer. If the shell's jacked, it might reload somewhat correctly

thwr

Sure