Windows 10 – Settings App Options Not Appearing in Search Results

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When using search (by pressing the win button and writing my query) I don't seems to get results from the settings (the one with the gray background):

Settings app

For example, if I search for mouse I get the control panel Mouse settings:

Search results for mouse

But if I search for windows update or bluetooth I don't get any results:

search results for windows update

Searh results for bluetooth

Meanwhile, searching for cortana settings (which shows directly in the search window) seems to be fine:

Search results for cortana

I have rebuilt my index but it does not seem to have changed anything. It currently looks like this:

Search index

Anyone have any tips on how to fix it?

Best Answer

This seems to be a common problem for people with SSDs. For some people reubilding the index works, but seeing as it did not work for you, try this:

  1. Go to This PC and right click on whichever drive Windows is installed on. We will assume C:\
  2. Right click and choose properties
  3. At the bottom of the "General" tab, make sure Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties is checked.

Also make sure under Modify, then C:\ -->Users that all the users are selected:

It's possible somehow your user got de-selected.

Source: Windows 8.1 Search not finding Control Panel Settings

Note that answer 2 from the source will not work on Windows 10.

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