Windows explorer toolbar greyed out

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Thank you for what you can do!! Joined Mar 16, Posts 8, Hi Mikmit : Posting here as a place holder, I'll source that file when I get home tonight.

Aura, Origianally, I was having this corrupted file as originally posted. My recent runs of sfc have come back clean. I also ran DISM and it indicates no curruptions. Despite all of this the "Search" window is still greyed out and Cortana won't run.

I tried to create a new Windows user account to see what would happen and I keep getting a message that "Something went wrong".

I haven't got a clue what is going on. I haven't found any other issues with Win If I can't fix it, I may have to roll back to Win 7 Pro. Thanks, Mikmit. Do you get an error message when trying to run Cortana? What do you mean by "the Search window is still greyed out"? You mean this? I get no message when I try to run Cortana, it just won't run.

The Search window is there but with a grey background and lighter grey letters. When I click on it, it changes its shades a little but does nothing else. Thanks for your help. Hope we can fix it.