It's search has never been good. Just forget about Windows File Explorer and go get a working search app. "Everything" and others are common replacements.
As to Windows Search, it's been 2 decades and still unreliable for many folk. No one really knows why and Microsoft never has answered why a basic thing like this doesn't work.
Hi Everyone! Looking for some help with the search bar that looks for files etc that is on the top of the screen on the right-hand side on Windows 10. Say if I am in my pictures folder and I wanted to search for a specific picture you click on the file to open it and then search for the appropriately named pic. When I enter the name in the search bar nothing happens. Any help would be great! Thanks

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