I am accessing my Gmail via the Mail app on my HP desktop. Also I do not have two factor authentication for it. As I said above, I think the problem is connected to the system trying to use my local...

Since I posted I have now realized that I can reveal the password the system offers me to fix my Gmail account. So I can now see it is trying to use the password I use just to log into my local...

I have started using the Mail app again on my desktop, as Outlook 2016 is so slow. The trouble is, I keep getting the message "your Gmail settings are out of date..." several times per day. I go in...

I can't see how to save a large group of addressees that I have sent an email to (40 members of a club) so that I can use it again. I don't want to save them all individually into my People app. In...

I may have spoken too soon? After a few weeks, disc usage has crept up again so it is now 100% much of the time. Mostly seems to be System or Norton accessing the disc. My memory usage is always...

Thanks for the comments. I thought it worth checking, as my RAM usage is consistently fairly high (88% as I type this) so I guessed that excessive use of virtual memory could be an issue.

I am not...

Just in case this may help anyone...

I had a problem with my old desktop (HP Envy 23, running Windows 10, Ver 1903, build 18367.778) becoming very slow due to constant hard disc activity, up to...

I wish I could say the same.

My HP desktop has been running W10 for 5 years or so and has become slower and slower. This seems to be a result of the hard disk working at 100% whenever I try to...

Thanks. I tried this and the process seemed to work (no error messages) but unfortunately Edge still doesn't.

For no apparent reason Edge has stopped working on my Windows 10 desktop. If I click on the taskbar or in the start menu Edge opens Initially the window is blue, then white but none of the icons in...

Hi. Despairing of any other solution I have now done the repair install. However, while I do not get the Critical Error message I still do not get any start menu in my primary user account (However,...

Thanks for info, but the fact is that I still have the start menu error.

After fixing the Start menu error and repairing the tiles in the menu itself I thought I was on top of this. However, the critical error has now returned and uninstalling Dropbox and my anti-virus...

I thought I should report how I have achieved a degree of functionality for the moment.



I had the Start Menu Critical error a few weeks after upgrading from 8.1. I did find that uninstalling...

Fair enough. Then what would be your advice for fixing or getting around the start menu problem?

Hi Brink,
You are clearly the expert here.
I am having the Start menu problem with my usual user account after upgrading from 8.1, and so I have opened another account. I would like to transfer my...

I have now tried replacing the faulty start menu in one account with a working start menu from another account. This worked to some extent, the start menu in the faulty account now has all the tiles...

No, it helped but did not solve the problem fully

I thought the error had gone and it has, insofar as I can open the Start menu without a Critical Error. However, the Start menu is incomplete as I said before and I now find that many of the program...

Yes, this has worked for me as well, and I just used the built in uninstaller. However, I have not yet reinstalled Dropbox. As with my earlier temporary fix (stopping the Local Security Process) the...

I think that I may need to try this. The fix from RadDad only worked once, unfortunately, and now I still have a critical error every time I try the Start Menu.

I have just tried this and it has worked for me, so far. Does anyone know why? However, my Start menu is not complete, some apps seem to be missing. Otherwise fine. Well done RadDad!