Bumping this post because it's still not fixed. It's Only gotten slightly better, the taskbar is still unusable, but all the icons show up as usual.

Sorry I went away for a while, I tried the sfc command, and it worked temporarily, even though it said after finishing it couldn't perform the requested operation. But it keeps not working, I tried...

Thanks for the help, but it doesn't work, I've already done that a few times in attempt to get this to work. Still doesn't.

Did it. Got this as a result

Verification 64% complete.
Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation.

How do i run a command prompt in admin mode, if I can't access my start menu. I've tried Win+R but it doesn't run admin'd mode. So it denied me access.
Found a better way than the one reccomended to...

Hi, I have an HP Pavillion laptop that came with windows 8.1, but I have upgraded to windows 10. I upgraded on launch day and everything was fine. I went out and left my computer on, when I came...