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I restored the hard drive image and all is well at the moment. I will see what happens next. Possibly a third party app is wiping out the start menu.
I restored the hard drive image and all is well at the moment. I will see what happens next. Possibly a third party app is wiping out the start menu.
I have had this problem for the past week or so, I tried the various fixes that had been posted, none of these worked.
I had read in one of the posts that that a non-administrator account had a working start menu, so I decided to setup a second user account which opened with a working start menu. When I logged back into my administrator account this also had a working start menu even after a reboot. It will be interesting to see how long this keeps the start menu working.
Last edited by toolman59; 26 Feb 2015 at 03:53.
I restored the hard drive image I had made. I installed all updates. I have not had the problem since. My thought was that one of the updates cured the problem.
Sounds like you got the problem under control. . .hence my idea is worthless (do a restart and do a recovery. . .Hope you have no further problems. . .:)
All is well at the moment. But I still don't know the cause of the problem.
The start menu quit working this morning. It was working yesterday (March 6). I installed Classic Shell, which so far seems to work fine. I can't seem to access the Universal UI (the old Metro) at all... no problem for me since I never use it.
I have also tested the StartIsBack start menu on Windows 10. It will work fine at this point. A correction on this... StartIsBack will work with Build 9926, it will Not work with Build 10041.
Last edited by jaqsol; 30 Mar 2015 at 16:16.
I have a problem with the 10041 build.
I think I've narrowed it down to using the "store" app or updating/installing an app from their. After doing so when I click start I am left with the a persistent search box that never disappears and no start menu.
I have trawled the thread, performed the action on the other page to no avail. Only thing it seemed to do was move the search box.