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Start menu, Cortana and explorer stop responding.
I upgraded to 10 from 8.1 on Friday and everything worked great. Suddenly, on the following Monday afternoon Windows began to act up. Either at the desktop or while in a game, suddenly the start menu and Cortana will stop responding. Usually shortly thereafter Explorer will stop responding, as well.
If I hover over items on the start bar - buttons, Cortana search, pinned applications, the system tray - the item will highlight like I can interact with it. But when I click, nothing happens. The start menu won’t open, Cortana won’t open, applications won’t start, etc.
This seems to happen between thirty and forty-five minutes after booting up.I checked the event logs for Application, Security and System; there are critical errors but after spending a few hours following up, those don’t seem to be related at all. I did not drill down any further than those logs.
I’ve attempted the solution at the following link, without any success. https://www.techmesto.com/fix-start-...nical-preview/ I’ve also attempted a system restore to the previous day when everything was still working, but again, no luck.
Has anyone experience these issues, too? Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated; I’m out of ideas. Thank you!
Update: I've now been running two hours without issue so I don't think time is necessarily a factor. Also, the last thing I installed was VMware Player, if that is relevant at all. I'm uninstalling it now.
Last edited by Jerm; 03 Aug 2015 at 20:29.