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W4RH4WK / Debloat-Windows-10

A Collection of Scripts Which Disable / Remove Windows 10 Features and Apps
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Search still shows removed apps #242

Closed Daksh777 closed 4 years ago

Daksh777 commented 4 years ago

So for example the camera app is removed but if you search it, it's still there. Any solution to remove all these removed apps from the search results?

W4RH4WK commented 4 years ago

Are you using the regular start menu for searching?

Daksh777 commented 4 years ago

Are you using the regular start menu for searching?

I did not modify the start menu at all so yes

W4RH4WK commented 4 years ago

I am not using the default start menu as it had various issues with search for me. Googling led me to this: https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/87957-remove-uninstalled-apps-show-up-windows-search.html

Have you had a look at this?

Daksh777 commented 4 years ago

I tried that but none of them seem to work, apps are still present

W4RH4WK commented 4 years ago

I am afraid I can't help here. I ditched the original start menu because of issues like that.

I'll keep the issue open with the 'help-wanted' label. Maybe something comes up in the future.

mIcHyAmRaNe commented 4 years ago

hello, i'm not having this problem so i can't test my idea. my theory is: i think that the windows search cache the installed apps to make finding it more fast. so when we uninstall an app, the cache is not rebuild so search engine still show the app.

so i searched about that and i found something that you could test: (follow the second point: "Delete the Windows Search Index File") https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-delete-a-windows-search-index

Daksh777 commented 4 years ago

I was unable to delete the index file due to some permission problems but yesterday I had clean installed Windows 1909 and when I used the debloater, it worked just fine. I assume this was some problem with the Windows OS itself. I will close this ticket for now because I have no such issues on the clean installed version.