The regular way to start a program in Windows-10 (Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.3086)) is by pressing the START button, waiting for the list of programs to appear and choose one of them.
I do it another way:
I press the start button and start typing the name of my program ("snip" for the snipping tool, "paint" for MS-Paint, ...). This causes my computer to start a search for those programs and once they are found, I can choose it.
This seems not to be working anymore: when I press the start button and start typing the name of a program, I don't see anything anymore.
I believe that some other "search engine" is added to my START button, and as this newly added search engine does not work, the others are blocked too.
Am I correct and how can I remove that newly added "search engine" from my start menu or is there another way to solve this? Which one?
For your information: between the last time this worked and the first time it didn't work, no updates have been executed.
Hereby a screenshot of what it looks like:
After hiding the "Search window" as proposed by Harrymc:
When I hide the "Search window", the behaviour does not really change: after that, I press the START button, start typing "notepad", but nothing is done and after some seconds that black square disappears:
