I am having exactly the same issue and am unable to do a full restore as it is now refusing to boot the restore files off of my USB drive.
Frustrating to say the least.
Windows 8 Start Screen and Apps Not Responding
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I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro on its release date. It had been working fine for me until yesterday (11/16/2012). Suddenly, I can't get the Start screen to respond. I'm unable to launch apps, access the Charms bar, etc. By pressing WinKey + D multiple times, I am able to get the Desktop to load. Once loaded, the Desktop seems OK though I can't access Charms from it either.
I tried the Apps Troubleshooter from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=271185, but it didn't find any problems. Also, my screen resolution is above 1024 x 768, my video driver is current (I checked for updates via Device Manager), I do NOT have UAC disabled, and I'm logged into my own account (which is linked to my Microsoft account). Also, I do not have a 3rd party AV/security product installed, just Defender.
In Event Viewer, I do see repeated errors from Time Broker (listed as TimeBroker.exe or svchost.exe_TimeBroker). The error message reads, "The Time Broker service terminated unexpectedly." That didn't seem to be a problem until yesterday, but I don't know what to do about it.
I would appreciate any suggestions or advice.k
Matt
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2012-11-22T14:26:25+00:00 I haven't had much time to mess with it this week; had to get "real" work done. Basically though, after a lot of reading and trying various suggestions, I gave up. I did a complete re-install. Very frustrated that I had to do this. To see such odd behavior and to read that it is common to many others makes me skeptical of Win8.
Matt
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Anonymous
2012-11-22T12:58:15+00:00 I have the same problem too and time broker appeared to have stopped functioning according to the log! Come on Microsoft please sort this out, my machine is also unable to boot in safe mode and now that I carried out the instructions of Praseetha I can't get into my machine (found this thread too late) so it looks like a complete re-install for me which is definately not what I had wanted to do! I thought they had had 6 months extensive testing to iron out these problems! My system is a core 2 duo on an asus p5w dh deluxe
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Anonymous
2012-11-22T08:26:29+00:00 I had the same problem and could only solve it by re-installing windows 8 upgrade. Did all windows updates after that,since I like to live dangerously, and had no problems. What caused it is still a mystery, since it seems to be limited to a relatively small nr of users. Maybe we should look at what we have in common. I run win 8 64 on a dell xps 8300. One possible suspecft I have is the metro app "Timer", which according to it's creator suffers from memory leakage. I uninstalled that one.
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Anonymous
2012-11-22T07:45:53+00:00 My deal says TIMEBROKER is the problem as well. What is that? Can I just get a fresh copy of the .dll someplace, copy and paste?