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garegin:

I can't turn on windows search because it's not even in windows features.
ran sfc and failed. dism didn't throw any errors, though

Tone111:
Have you tried checking to see if the "Windows Search" (WSearch) service is disabled or running in Services? (can be found in Task Manager, depends which version of Windows you're running...)

garegin:
it's enabled in the services.
but fails when I press start.

Tone111:
By 'enabled' do you mean it's set to automatic (the default setting) or manual?

If it won't run when you press start it should throw up an error message - is this the case, and if so what error?

Also try checking the RPC (remote procedure call) service (should be set to Automatic and running) as the Search service is dependent on the RPC service to run...

Boggin:
Mine is set to Started Auto (Delayed) but you should also check Event Viewer for any DCOM Server errors and run a sfc /scannow to see if anything else is amiss.

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