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Re:Windows 10 Debloat Script by jsmith99 on Saturday July 20, 2019 @08:43PM (#20489242)
Just like all those threads about searching in the Windows 10 Start Menu, where some commenters always say that search is broken because it never remembers their most used apps and always brings up something obscure.

Presumably they - or some script they didn't really understand - turned off the "Let Windows track app launches to improve Start and search results" setting.

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Re:Windows 10 Debloat Script by zamadatix on Saturday July 20, 2019 @09:39PM (#20489429)
Actually for the longest time if you simply toggled:

Settings -> Background Apps -> "Let apps run in the background"

It would disable search even though nothing related to search was in the apps list (along with other presumably hidden items). The workaround was to leave background apps globally enabled and manually disable every app that showed in the list (including any that got added over time). I think this was finally fixed in 1809.

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