Windows Start button not working

Anonymous
2010-11-11T12:49:00+00:00

The Windows start button is not working. When I press it nothing happens. SO I cannot shut down the computer in the normal manner or access any programs other than ones with desktop icons.

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Anonymous
2015-02-14T05:42:28+00:00

Hi,

I faced a similar issue! The following worked for me

  1. Right click on the Start Button and select "Run"
  2. Type "regedit"
  3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Explorer>Advance
  4. Create a new DWORD (32-bit) value, call it "EnableXamlStartMenu"
  5. Restart Explorer​ from task manager.

Hope this helps!

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Anonymous
2010-11-11T15:34:40+00:00

Hi nickthomp.

Does start menu open if you press the windows key on the keyboard?.

Can you right click the start menu orb and choose properties, if so

In the Customize Start Menu dialog box, click Use Default Settings, clickOK, and then clickOK again.

Also try.

1 .   Press Ctrl + Alt+ delete on the keyboard and click on task manager.

2 .   Click on the Process tab and locate explorer.exe in the windows and click on end task.

3 .   Click on File and then click on New.

4.   Type explorer.exe and press enter.

Hope his helps.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-01-18T13:42:09+00:00

    Art:

    Thank you for the suggestions.

    I have tried all except the last two ... disabling, uninstalling anti-virus, and reinstalling. I have my doubts that Norton is the problem!

    Obviously restoring W10 is a lot of work and something I chose to avoid since a lot of software would have to be reinstalled.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-18T16:41:00+00:00

    Norton is not the problem as I have exactly the same issue and I use AVG.

    Windows 10 is the PROBLEM!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-18T21:19:38+00:00

    I too am totally sick of the bugs in Windows 10.  I don't know how Microsoft have the nerve to advertise this as the future of computing.  I waited quite a while before I upgraded from 8.1 to 10 thinking (wrongly) that most of the problems would have been sorted, but it seems that after all the years I've been using Windows, nothing has changed... every new version just seems to introduce more and more bugs.  As this thread goes back months, I would have thought that MS would have made some effort to fix it and I don't see why I (or anyone else outside of MS) should have to spend hours trying to resolve something which shouldn't be there in the first place!

    I'm going to restore back to my Windows 8.1 (assuming my restore point hasn't been corrupted!) and not touch Windows 10 until MS can issue some kind of reassurance that they have actually bothered to properly test things.  I work in software development and would have been fired a long time ago if I released things in this poor state!

    Rant over!

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