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Missing Internet Explorer ETW Collector Service, no Start Menu
Yesterday out of the blue, I could not run any 'modern' apps. Either nothing would happen or I'd get a "Class not registered" error.
I tried Microsoft's start menu troubleshooter startmenu.diagcab, which failed to do anything but tell me there's a problem it can't fix. (Required applications are not installed correctly) Tried the one to re-register all the apps using elevated Powershell. No result. There's another one that's supposed to absolutely for sure fix it by re-registering a lot of things, nope, also fails. (No, I do not have a list of sites where I found all these. If one had actually worked, I'd have saved it for future reference for the next time I run into this problem.)
SFC /scannow claims all is 100% perfectly fine. I've not tried anything with DISM yet, searches have only turned up failures to fix the problem using DISM.
Now I've come to one that says to make sure the Internet Explorer ETW Collector Service is running. So I run services.msc (I have the latest Classic Shell so I can still get to some things) and find that the service isn't only not running it is not there.
Winkey + anything does not function so I can't use Win+X or Win+R. Day before yesterday all was fine and *I* have not done a bleeping thing to this computer - have not installed or updated or uninstalled anything, nor have I changed any settings on anything in the past week. This has blown up all on its own.
Looks like this may be the root of the problem. How do I get that service back?
I repeat, Internet Explorer ETW Collector Service is not listed. I cannot run services.msc then find that service and manually start it. I need to know how to get it back into the list first.