Since upgrading to Windows 8.1 from 8, I've noticed that doing a search (Windows + S) is not turning up any Control Panel settings. For example, if I try to find Windows Update by typing in "update", I'm not getting any results. It's almost if the Settings option of the search is not actually doing anything.
Doing the same search from within the Control Panel itself gives me the results I'm looking for:
Any insight as to why this is happening? I'm fairly certain this worked fine in Windows 8, but I have no way of verifying that. Is this just a setting somewhere that I've missed?
Best Answer
We had been experiencing exactly the issue you described.
Recently we had migrated to using SSDs and as part of that, we disabled the "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties" setting on the C drive.
After re-enabling this setting, we found that the Control Panel settings returned in the search results (in both Everywhere and in Settings).