Ok, assuming you've looked at both disks... (you need to click on a tab)..

Did chkdsk (first one you mentioned) offer to run on restart, and if so, did you let it?
You could simply start it from...

Obvious thing to try: check your disk(s) (Crystal Diskinfo or better Hard Disk Sentinel (covers SSDs too) ).

Just launch and look, select disk as necessary.

Note the recommendation (again) for the dynamic theme - for - yes- Win 11 (i.e. people still sometimes struggle with Spotlight with Win 11).
Windows Spotlight lock screen image not changing |...

This is a more powerful tool (=less straightforward, more complex) but does have an icon field for the added entry:
GitHub - stax76/OpenWithPlusPlus: Open with++ context menu shell extension

Note...

:thumbsup: always good to hear of another success..

FWIW you could use the info in the link I posted and use bcedit (offline)
windows server 2008 - How can I edit the boot configuration data (BCD) store of another disk? - Server Fault

- but I...

It doesn't work like that.

You simply install it, let it run- no settings like that required. (There is one choice as to how it runs though)


I've seen one or two - but nothing consistent as...

Let's try something basic.

Please run Crystal Diskinfo and report the health of your drive.

If ok, try (3) and (4) here, then (7):
[Fixed] MS-Windows-Store Purgecaches Error on Windows 10/11 -...

By default that log is not enabled...

How to Enable and Find Your Windows Boot Log

Have you checked the disk with e.g. Crystal Diskinfo? (If not on the live boot disk, there's a portable...

Your criticism implies you cannot now boot to Windows. This is not clear in your first post, which implies you can, and you were installing an update.

Do you mean that after the update failure,...

Basic default - the standard one in Settings.

To be 100% clear- if you set MS Edge as your default (or it becomes set as your default in your case) - MSEdgeRedirect will not help you. Why? Because...

Please see e.g.

Windows Spotlight broken, not downloading images
noting posts #4 and #9 for example, comment in #10 (patience etc)

(An in-place upgrade repair install keeps all progs and data...

:thumbsup:

Hi, thanks for the photo.

I searched
blue 2 white chevrons icon overlay

for you - see:...

:thumbsup:
Naturally I proposed the built-in Windows approach first (you hadn't stated you'd used it) - why? guess what? Many people asking questions say they didn't want a 3rd party tool.

.. and what did the "View detailed information report"? (You have to click on the blue link when shown) e.g.
408571

My post #9 offers a good way to do that.

I'm also wondering what use the Store is to you without a MS account... see
Use Local account with Windows Store

again:
Have you ever changed permissions on the WindowsApps folder?

- and FWIW...

The risk with that is that unless you disabled it or had it not running at specific times or maybe disabled by you using the PC you'd have the SM popping up when you didn't want it- ie. would have to...

- I went and did something else while waiting for 12 minutes for you.



That's a change from your original question.

You'd need a small script running which you'd have to cancel

which...

Hi, I've seen nothing to suggest this is a general problem - and my build is the same as yours.

Have you ever changed permissions on the WindowsApps folder?


Please confirm that completed...

Hi, this question has been so very often asked-many such threads on tenforums. You will know many people have struggled with this and found no completely satisfactory answer.

I assume you've done...

I thought you wanted to find out what is causing the Start Menu to be closed.

That requires progressive elimination until it doesn't happen, as I suggested.

One other approach you might take in...

Thanks..



Odd. Certainly not my experience... and I can't recall other such reports.

MSEdgeRedirect is meant to handle the exceptional cases. If the basic default is Edge, that will be...

Try Virustotal if you think it's not trustworthy.

No one here can give you the specific opinion you want. As Berton says, Majorgeeks is a reliable site.