Windows 10 Start Menu and taskbar not working - Surface Pro 4

Suggestion only :

Right click at it > click Command Prompt (Admin) > type powershell > press Enter key.
At the flashing prompt, copy and paste this command line ( to avoid typo it's best to apply Copy/paste method)......

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

> press Enter.

Adding..............
Have you by any chance created restore points when the Surface was working perfectly ?

If you have, you can do a system restore. Pick a date when the tablet was working fine as your restore point.
System Restore Windows 10

Michaelvas17 said:

I did the Powershell script, and it worked...

It looked like it didn't do anything, but in fact it did when I closed it.

Thanks!

Wonderful. You are welcome.
Please have a habit to manually create restore point whenever the system is running fine.
That will save your bacon many times over.

Please mark this thread as Solved.
Thank you.

davidhk said:

Wonderful. You are welcome.
Please have a habit to manually create restore point whenever the system is running fine.
That will save your bacon many times over.

Please mark this thread as Solved.
Thank you.

Hello. I just wanted to say thank you for this fix. helped me solved my problem as well. One point to note. I use a non-windows firewall and this script wouldn't work until I enabled windows firewall.

Thanks again!

I have a Surface Pro 3 that just started having this issue last night. Will this solution work on a 3 as well? I'm not techie!

Jerseylou said:

I have a Surface Pro 3 that just started having this issue last night. Will this solution work on a 3 as well? I'm not techie!

I do not own a Surface Pro.
But I don't think there is such a big difference between a Pro 3 and a Pro 4 that the method could not be applied to both.

vfguy said:

Hello. I just wanted to say thank you for this fix. helped me solved my problem as well. One point to note. I use a non-windows firewall and this script wouldn't work until I enabled windows firewall.

Thanks again!

You are welcome.

Thank you so much!

davidhk said:

I do not own a Surface Pro.
But I don't think there is such a big difference between a Pro 3 and a Pro 4 that the method could not be applied to both.