In Windows 7 when I pressed Win + 'KEYB' or Win + 'UPDATE' I get a bunch of entries from Control Panel. But in Windows 8.1 I get nothing even thou I have enabled search everywhere.

ps. The answer here does NOT fix my problem:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/754628fc-457a-414f-abd9-bc8cf0f552b7/windows-81-settings-search-doesnt-work?forum=w8itproinstall

• Edited by ashrack Sunday, February 16, 2014 5:02 PM

Hi,

What do you mean by pressed Win + 'KEYB' or Win + 'UPDATE'?

Also, you can try this command to enable the windows search engine:

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename=SearchEngine-Client-Package

By that I mean pressing the 'WIN' key and typing in 'KEYB' or 'UPDATE' or 'MOUSE', ...

Any of this entries returns nothing in the search.

And also that dism command did not help

ps. It appears as thou nothing that is searched via pressing the 'WIN'+'W' results in any results

• Edited by ashrack Saturday, February 22, 2014 11:59 AM

ps. It appears as thou nothing that is searched via pressing the 'WIN'+'W' results in any results

Other posters on Answers are reporting related symptoms and solutions

C.f.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-tms/cant-open-certain-charms-search-results/71b8a188-09c4-475a-bbb4-15c0f15a4e8f?page=2

Tried all the proposed fixes non helped.

So I guess a lot of us who updated from W8 to W8.1 have this bug. 

I am also a developer and I really can not understand how M$ can still neglect this bug.

• Edited by ashrack Sunday, February 23, 2014 4:55 PM

 can not understand how M$ can still neglect this bug.

Hi,

Lets go to the services manager to check  if the Windows Search service is enabled.

If everything is ok,  please check if there are any registry under this path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search\

 can not understand how M$ can still neglect this bug.

Probably because not enough people who are seeing it are giving enough details.  Notice that one resolution involved getting a new Windows product key?  What was the original version?  What was the final ver

Hi,

Lets go to the services manager to check  if the Windows Search service is enabled.

If everything is ok,  please check if there are any registry under this path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows S

No other advice?

ps. Installed classic shell and there the search for control panel entries work. So I guess the metro UI is not showing things.

note to self: really have to find the time to reinstall Windows 7

• Edited by ashrack Wednesday, March 12, 2014 6:31 AM

Updated to 8.1 update 1 and it still does not work.

I have a licensed OS and would like some help with this issue. Where to get it?