Cortana Search Box - Frozen

Had an interesting situation where my Cortana Search box was frozen. Clicking it accomplished nothing short of frustration

I tried to "fix" it by re-registing my Cortana download by executing the powershell command:
 
Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy

Didn't work, received all sorts of invalid manifest errors in angry red. More research yielded a similar thing for the "reinstall" of a corrupted Windows Calendar. I modified the powershell script and executed:

Get-AppXPackage -Name Microsoft.Windows.Cortana | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

  SUCCESS!

A few notes:

1. You push run powershell as administrator
2. You must have the windows firewall turned on
3. You must have the windows store bound to a valid account. 

 Why? who knows.