Windows 10 Cannot Find Programs
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Not sure how to fix it either, but I've suffered from it before. Might be something with drive indexing? Not sure.
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Did you just reboot and live with it?
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@Reid-Cooper yup, seems to happen much more frequently for you. I've seen it twice maybe three times.
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@coliver said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
Sometimes when using Windows 10 I am unable to access applications that are installed. The idea, since Windows 8, is that you hit the Windows key and a search tool pops up and you start typing and it brings up the applications that you want. I am used to this and it mostly works great.
But now that I am on Windows 10 from time to time the search stops working completely. I hit the Windows key, the search bar comes up, I type in what I am looking for (same programs that work normally) and it just searches for forever unable to find anything. When it works it brings up a list nearly instantly. But about 10% of the time, it cannot find anything at all. Once it gets like this, I have to reboot and try again.
Has anyone seen this or know what I might be able to do to address it?
I had this issue with the RTM version. I haven't had it in the production version yet.
uh. isn't the RTM a production version?
Also, assuming Paul Thurrott is correct, Microsoft has dumped the term RTM. They now never consider Windows finished, it's in a continuously moving forward state (just weird)
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Yeah, RTM is the old MS term for production.
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@Dashrender said:
Also, assuming Paul Thurrott is correct, Microsoft has dumped the term RTM. They now never consider Windows finished, it's in a continuously moving forward state (just weird)
Isn't that basically how all other operating systems are?
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No, Don't think so. Mac has OS versions 10.1, 10.2, etc Those are full new releases as far as I know.
Linux has the same.
As far as I can tell this will be first to have rolling releases. though I suppose whatever MS rolls into the base ISO could be considered a version as well.
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@Dashrender said:
No, Don't think so. Mac has OS versions 10.1, 10.2, etc Those are full new releases as far as I know.
Linux has the same.
As far as I can tell this will be first to have rolling releases. though I suppose whatever MS rolls into the base ISO could be considered a version as well.
Mac only has minor releases. OpenSuse has had Tumbleweed rolling releases for a long time. Fedora has releases, but they feel like Microsoft's rolling releases. MS has to get features out and can't just do soft updates for forever. I think that their rolling will look like Mac and most Linux releases.
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yeah I have no idea how MS will handle kernel updates now.
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@Dashrender said:
yeah I have no idea how MS will handle kernel updates now.
Kernel they will do rolling, that bit is easy, more or less. Even Ubuntu LTS has that figured out pretty well. It's the other stuff, like interface changes, that are going to be hard. Imagine doing something like the jump from Windows 7 to Windows 8 as a "patch" now! Patch Tuesday could mean a massive change that requires people to be retrained - that's a scary idea.
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I've had this issue too. heck on some of mine typing MMC won't find it and I have to find "CMD" right click to run as admin then running MMC from the command prompt.
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Have you tried restarting the Windows Search service?
