Cortana Recherche is not finding applications on Windows 10

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For the past several versions (since Windows Vista, Je pense), if you hit the Windows key and start typing, Windows will search for applications.

Since upgrading to Windows 10 with [Cortana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_%28software%29), she is only hit or miss at finding applications. And she doesn't do partial searches, either.

Some examples:

- WinKey + type "Paint" does not find "mspaint". Instead it suggests some applications from the store.

- WinKey + type "Excel" does not find Excel. Nor does typing "Word" find Word. Cependant, typing OneNote finds OneNote.

Quel est le reason for this behavior and how I can get Cortana to trouvez le applications installed on my machine again? Existe-t-il un setting I am missing?

If I browse to "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs" I can see that the shortcuts for these applications all still exist. But Cortana is not finding them. Everything from the Microsoft Office applications to [IIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services) to [Beyond Compare](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Compare) to hundreds of other applications J'ai installed.

Où puis-je set which folders Cortana indexes?

As vous pouvez voir in the screen shot below, this menu Démarrer folder is, indeed, indexed:

Cependant, none of these applications are coming back as search results from the "start" menu.

It may be related to [this issue](https://superuser.com/questions/951371/cannot-add-items-to-start-menu-in-windows-10) aussi.

I did a brand new install of Skype (for desktop), and it shows up nowhere in the menu Démarrer. And typing in "Skype" to search for the application does not find it. But the shortcut to Skype is definitely in this location:

```
C:\Users\Patrick\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Skype

```

## EDIT

The latest Windows 10 update (Threshold 2) has solved this issue for me. Cortana now finds all my files with no issues. Previously my only solution was to use [Classic Shell](http://www.classicshell.net/), I've been able to uninstall that now and use the standard Windows menu Démarrer.

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Found a solution here: [Cortana not finding Desktop apps when searching for them](http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_cortana/cortana-not-finding-desktop-apps-when-searching/f612e995-6664-4b91-b6ae-96790e763858)

Here is the relevant part:

I reinstalled ***Cortana*** using the following procedure:

- Open an elevated Invite de commandes window (press win + X, and then press A)

- Type `start powershell` and press enter

- Run the command (in one line):

>


Get-AppXPackage -Name Microsoft.Windows.Cortana | Foreach
{Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register
"$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

After 30 seconds the problem was solved on my machine. Incredible.