Start Menu not working after latest forced reboot.

musiclover7 said:

How did you manage to turn off Cortana in settings? I can't get to settings as far as I can tell.

Mystere, all I did was take ownership of my 5 hard drives, remove the old rogue SID from their permissions which was tied to previous windows install, and then share them on my home network. I did not even touch the c drive, as it got formatted during windows load so no need.

Win-button + i opens the Settings here. Then I searched for Cortana, opened the speech settings and turned off "Get to know me", then turned Location off, didn't check if both were actually needed.

I was sort of hoping that would work, but unfortunately turning off get to know me did not help either. Still no start menu.

I sugest installing again using a fresh ISO - then leave the system alone for a while (no mucjing about on the drives)P

Install one application at a time and see if that works.
then the next application

all the while testing Start.

Don't worry about fine tuning ... the previews change often and you will most likely have to 'tune' it again.

The objective is to get a working system - stable is a relative term since this is development code being tested, not a commercially available product.

I know it's a pain, but if you take things a step at a time and don't change much, the experience will be better. Taking it slow means you know when something breaks and you know what broke it.

I'm not suggesting that you don't try to break Win10, I'm suggesting that you get it running first