As the title says, for some reason GOG Galaxy, and only GOG Galaxy, does not show up in windows search. It doesn't matter what search term I use, whether it be "gog", "gala" etc, it simply won't show up. Everything else shows up just fine, including other things with a dot in the path.

I checked my search indexer settings and everything looked normal. I even rebuilt the index, no change.

At the link are some screenshots showing what I just described.

https://imgur.com/a/zUhUh1I

Can anyone else confirm this on their windows 10 machine?

What about a specific search for GalaxyClient.exe?
If no results the Program Files directory might be exempt from your search.

I'm not indexing the program files directory. But that shouldn't matter. By default windows only indexes the start menu and \Users\

It's in the start menu and I am indexing the start menu. Everything else (that I've tried) in the start menu shows up.

Oh I see. lnk (shortcut) searches. Should have realised with your screenshots what you meant.
Can't say I've ever searched for anything in that method before,

Just ran a search using 8.1. Got the client first result immediately with GOG, which is the shortcut in the start menu, so unless it's only a Windows 10 thing ...

Not a single person on this forum has windows 10? Just press start, type "gog" and see what happens. Would really help me out.

I have Win 10 but don't use Galaxy, maybe that why.

I have this same issue, I just pinned the galaxy icon to my start menu tab so I would never need to deal with that crap again.

Amazing, I was confident that such a bizarre issue would be limited to my PC. I can't imagine what would cause it.

I think (since I don't use it myself, but I recall someone else having this issue) Windows 10 doesn't search for partial names by default. Try searching for "GOG*" or "*GOG*" (with asterisks).

See if that's an issue with other file names. Call a file abcdefgh.ij and see if searching for bcdefg finds it.

Try creating a brand-new shortcut from your galaxy installation, naming it something completely different and whack it in your start menu (indexed) location. Then run your test.

Looks like there are bigger issues here than just the gog shortcut.

Seems there was a big ruckus around the windows 1903 update that broke search for a lot of people, I think that's what's happened here. I only recently upgraded to 1903 and it seems the search doesn't recognise any start menu entries that have been added since then. Some database somewhere must be stuck in the state it was in when I upgraded.

Thanks everyone for your efforts

Shortcut for me shows up when I search from Start. I also have it pinned to the taskbar, so not sure if that influenced it in any way.

It's in the Apps section of Windoze 10.

(I know because I uninstall it every time it is "automatically" installed with newer games.)

LOL so it was 1903? interesting, I always have the odd issue with every new major windows season pack. the worst one was 2 major updates ago... Files getting removed. and just pure crashing, apps vanishing, the whole nine yards. I had to revert back and put my OS on meter mode so it wont download updates for 4 months till the issues was resolved.