No applications running after Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7


  1. rinjo
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    Windows 10 Home (Windows 21H1 update)
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    No applications running after Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7


    Hi All,

    I just upgraded my Windows 7 installation to Windows 10 using the Windows free upgrade.
    The upgrade completed successfully and I am able to boot into Windows 10.
    However, that is where the happy journey ends!

    I am not able to open any applications pinned to the taskbar. Even the windows menu is not launching!
    Hence I am stuck with only limited set of applications which have shortcuts on the desktop.

    Any idea what might be the issue here?
    Any help is appreciated...

    -Rinjo
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  3. rinjo
    Posts : 44
    Windows 10 Home (Windows 21H1 update)
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    Even alt+tab does not work. If i mini-zed an app it does not go to task bar, but remains invisible. I need to launch windows task manager to list out and open the app gain.
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  4. rinjo
    Posts : 44
    Windows 10 Home (Windows 21H1 update)
    Thread Starter
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    I do not know whether the new Windows 10 takes a long time to setup everything and make everything available, but a couple of reboots actually solved the issues that I had reported as part of this thread.

    Now I am able to use the task bar and also the start menu without any issues!

    Although not fully stable (I observed a couple of BSOD crashes while running youtube videos), the system is in sort of a usable state...

    I will post the BSOD issues on some other thread.

    --Rinjo
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