Taskbar/Start button not working!

bushwick2002 said:

Going to try the following below later on today and post the results. Found these on another forum. It work for a few people.

1. Login to your current profile
2. Press Win+X, and select "Command Prompt (Admin)"
3. Enter the following commands, in this order
   
   1. net user "TempAdmin1" "password1" /add
   2. net user "TempAdmin2" "password2" /add
   3. net localgroup administrators "TempAdmin2" /add

Didn't work for me. Basicly I think because of the fact that in my case Start button doesn't work even for newly crated accounts.
I still believe - there's something wrong with file permissions. Because, as I mentioned earlier in this thread, the trouble happened on my system after relocating Apps folder to disk D: (via Settings/System/Storage/Save locations).

Another fact to be mentioned. All my users profiles are kept on disk D: (D:\Users). And only Admin profile is kept within C:\Users.
And start button works under Admin account!

AveYo said:

I have experienced this after messing with Windows services and packages via dism.
Undoing changes did bring the functionality back.

I have attached a batch file to reset all services (and optionally device drivers) to defaults.
Coupled with the solution posted above by flhthemi, should fix most cases.

this bat didnt work for me ???

chelso said:

Todays 8/27/2015 Windows Update, = Access is denied, disables the posted powershell patch work around:

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

8/27 updates are:
KB3081449
KB3081448
KB3081452 - Will not let you Uninstall
With no Menu, you will find this at Control Panel>Programs>Programs and Features>Installed Updates.
Search the list by the date you installed.

Uninstalling KB3081449 re-enables the patch to fix the Start Menu.
Guessed it without, touching KB308148
After Uninstall, Patch, checking for updates does not ask for 1449, says Your device is up to date.
You will also notice either 1448 or 1452 change the chime audio sound.

HP has not released Windows 10 Drivers. 8.1 & 8, will not install.
Calls to HP, are useless.
Without Windows 10 Drivers, plan on continued performance weakness, and coming here often to this Forum.
Here is a complete list of Tutorials:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1977-windows-10-tutorial-index.html

Hi,
When I select KB3081452 right click option UNINSTALL disappears!!! On others works fine?
Any clue?

Teysz said:

I've been trying to do some of the suggested solutions on this page, but I have some additional problems which prevent me from doing so. E.g. I cannot start Powershell as an admin, not even with the solution suggested in the reply before me, because when I replaced CMD with Powershell in the right-click start "menu", it simply won't start and neither can I right click on anything in a folder or the taskbar itself with the exception of right-clicking on the start icon or right-clicking tray-icons like Dropbox. Also the start menu won't appear, neither does the search option, even Edge won't start (I'm using Chrome anyways). Some times the task bar freezes, but tray-icons like Dropbox will still show that it's updating something when it is updating something and remain normal when it's doing nothing. I can right-click the background, but neither the screen settings and the costumization will open. I can however still use Winkey+R and open stuff from there. But the main problem is, I cannot open anything as an admin, because right-clicking does not work.

If you press CTRL+ALT+DEL on the keyboard, click Task Manager, then click File, run a new task, enter the command line, click the box 'create this task with administrative privileges', click [OK] and you're away

I'd also enable the built-in administrator as it may come in handy to aid with this fix. net user administrator /active:yes then disable with /active:no when finished.

If taskbar become completely unresponsive, press ctrl+alt+del and reboot pc from there. But be careful, hit REBOOT , not Shutdown ! A full Reboot should at least temporarily solve this annoying issue.

ugh so I re-installed Windows 10 and still have this issue! sometimes search stops working too.

sunberg said:

If taskbar become completely unresponsive, press ctrl+alt+del and reboot pc from there. But be careful, hit REBOOT , not Shutdown ! A full Reboot should at least temporarily solve this annoying issue.

Just an FYI, for me a restart (not shutdown) doesn't even remediate temporarily.

erthonono said:

this bat didnt work for me ???

That BAT file was obviously well written but it didn't work for me either.

After 2 full days of trying various things on the internet, this post included, my menu is now back! I can't say exactly what sequence of events fixed it, but here's basically what I think contributed to it.

1. Ran the BAT file (didn't appear to work at the time)
   (Find it here: https://www.tenforums.com/general-dis...tml#post321683)
   
2. Deleted the C:/Users/<name>/AppData/Local/TileDataLayer folder
   (didn't appear to work at the time; notice I deleted it BEFORE running the powershell script below)
   
3. Ran the powershell script (had run it the day before to no avail)
   (find it here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/i...9195ea?page=45)

Now my start menu was working but all my tiles were missing and "All Apps" was missing too! I was afraid I'd really messed things up and started thinking about a restore from an earlier backup.

4) Rebooted.

It's back! My start menu works; my programs are in the "All Apps" section; my tiles are missing but I can set those up again myself.