Why Is My Windows 10 Search Bar White
'Search my stuff' unclickable, search window becomes blank white box in General Support Hi, I am a former Windows 7 Ultimate user who upgraded to Windows 10 Pro. I am having some major problems with the Search feature which renders Windows mostly unusable. Sep 12, 2016 Windows 10 Search Bar Has Recently Turned White 24 hours ago, I don't recall it being white, I thought it was a dark gray, that matched the task bar. Did an update change this, or did I?
Just installed Windows 10 and also having issues finding WHERE to search my computer data base, of outlook emails, and word docs and scans etc etc.I used that 20 times a day. Used to be a little box at lower left on my screen.The post before mine seems to be the answer but DUMMIE question WHERE is the 'taskbar' I need to right click on?
Is that the same as the toolbar? Anyway, wherever I right click I see nothing that mentions 'Cortana'.Apologies for such a thick question but not sure where exactly is that is on my laptop screen?Do not even know where to find the section to the uncheck small icons? I am using Firefox is that is relevant.No idea what or where a 'Cortana' is either, but that does not seen relevant if I follow the post above?Glen in Sydney. Re pmessage number 18I, too, was missing the search box but nothing in the previous replies helped. Then Googled 'lost cortana box' and got to howtogeek.com's discussion of how to hide the search box (the opposite question).
Why Is My Windows 10 Search Bar White Plains
The answer: right-click on any empty space in the taskbar, click on Cortana, and either click on 'hidden' to hide it or on 'show cortana icon' to show just the icon or 'show search box' to do that.Quick reply to this messageOK on my W10 just upgraded to the latest Fast Ring build 14367 I had no Seach box but on the task bar whilst not an actual Cortana icon on the left was a tempting plan white circle. Mousing over it revealed Cortana's catch phrase 'Ask me anything' so I right clicked it and saw a useful option to 'show touch keyboard button' which I unchecked as it had tended to get in my way anyway.I then thankfully found that simply clicking the circle showed the Cortana details and the good old searchbox which was sorely missing.
Computer Type: PC/DesktopSystem Manufacturer/Model Number: N/AOS: Windows 10 Pro x64 ( v. 1803)CPU: AMD FX 6300 3.5 GHzMotherboard: GA-990FXA-UD3 (Rev. Computer Type: PC/DesktopSystem Manufacturer/Model Number: N/AOS: Windows 10 Pro x64 ( v. 1803)CPU: AMD FX 6300 3.5 GHzMotherboard: GA-990FXA-UD3 (Rev.