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cannot use taskbar
Hi
Ive been having this issue for the past week, basically the task bar doesnt really work. I cant left click on anything other than the apps/programs ive got pinned to the taskbar (and those i cant right click on), the start menu and all the other task bar icons i must right click on. ive done extensive research (aka googling) on the subject and have found its a common issue. However none of the usual fixes seem to work for me....
for starters i came across this page which has some of the fixes ive seen on many other pages. Tried everything other than creating a new account and changing the folder names, simply because i was unable to create a new account on the system.
at first i even tried restoring to past backups, restored 4 times (going back a week each time). After each restore the start button would work for about 5 to 10 minutes and then....... nothing
last night i even took the drastic step of resetting my PC to factory settings (selected the option that wiped the C drive) and it actually worked all of last night. i was excited i thought that resetting was a pain in the ass (had to back up all my files, now have to restore em and install a bunch of programs) thought it was worth it. but as of this morning when i turned the computer on the same damn error happened
not sure what else to do here, can anyone offer any advice?
edit: its also interesting to note that windows 10 apps dont work, they load up, but crash while loading
and sometimes when typing the keyboard gets stuck and repeats a letter (ie i type the word hello and it gets stuck on the e so "heeeeeeeeeeee"). The problem, however, is that no keys are physically stuck and this error doesnt work on other machines where i use the same keyboard and mouse (i have a microsoft sculpt wireless desktop set, so i take it to work with me, works perfectly on my work PC)
The problem with the apps crashing could probably be related to the taskbar issue. The keyboard problem seems completely unrelated (and might be), but its a big coincidence that it started happening at the same time the taskbar crapped itself, so thought it may be worth mentioning
These two issues may be meaningless, but someone who knows more about this than i may see a connection that i cannot
Last edited by BeBa; 12 Dec 2016 at 18:08.