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A few months ago I had a problem with win10: a blue screen every second boot. I searched the web and found a fix, i.e. to disable the fast boot option in the Power Saving Options. Which I did, and it worked.
A few weeks ago I installed the Falls Creators Update (aka 1709), and now I get a strange behaviour. The Start Menu button (the window icon) is totally insensitive. When I click it, nothing happens. If I reboot (with Alt-F4, or with Ctrl-Alt-Del and Task Manager), all goes well, i.e. after reboot the Start Menu works regularly. However, at the next boot, the Start Menu gets insensitive once again.
As it happens every second boot, I have checked the "fast boot" option, thinking that maybe the falls Creators Update had turned it on again. No, it had not, I found it still disabled as it was before the update.
Honestly, I an not sure whether this problem has started occurring RIGHT AFTER the 1709 update, or a few days later. For sure, yet, it didn't happen BEFORE the 1709 update.
There is a detail that may help troubleshooting: in the sessions when Start menu is insensitive, when I reboot, the system shutdown always shows a message "Task Host Window stopping background tasks \Microsoft]Windows\Plug and Play\Device Install Reboot required".
A device install every second boot? Doesn't make sense...
Any clue?
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I had the same issue. Here is what I did to solve (yes, SOLVE) the problem.
In Settings, Accounts, Sign In Options, there is a new function in the Privacy section named:
Use my sign-in info to automatically finish setting up my device after an update or restart.
OIt appears to be set to On after installing 1709.
Change it to Off, reboot, and you won't have the Start Menu issue again.
Hope this helps.
This can be a possible solution. My computer has now been restarted six times without any problems...
Regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WpnUserService
Double click on the value (DWORD): "Start"
Change the "Data" to 4 then OK.
Reboot
Let me guess: did it work until Windows updated itself again?
Updates of Windows 10 are quite stubborn. Once in a while I get a BSOD complaining about a video driver, then I rollback to the previous driver (whoa, who has updated it? Not me!) and it works again. I mean, until the next update. There seems no way to tell Windows "PLEASE LET THIS DRIVER ALONE, AS YOUR UPDATES ALWAYS BREAK IT RATHER THAN IMPROVE IT"
In Settings, Accounts, Sign In Options, there is a new function in the Privacy section named:
Use my sign-in info to automatically finish setting up my device after an update or restart.
I'm testing it. So far so good, I will report again in a couple of days.
Meanwhile, would you mind telling me (involuntary Windows betatester) how you troubleshot this issue? Deduction or divining?
Glad to hear it is working for you thus far.
Little bit of both - Initially, was frustrated that I kept having start menu issues after every other reboot. So I uninstalled some recent programs, checked various settings, completely reinstalled Windows (cleaned out everything) then didn't install anything else and the issue kept happening.
One other thing I noticed was: I have multiple accounts on my PC. I logged into the other account and looked at the Task Manager and saw that under the Users tab, my account and the one I just logged into were active.
So I looked at the release notes for the Creators update to see what was there. The new function under Sign-in Options seemed to be it, so I tested it and viola!
Run the Start menu troubleshooter:
If that does not work, try the following:
Press Windows key + X
Click Task Manager
Click File > New Task (Run)
Type: CMD
Hold down Shift, click OK
Type in at the prompt OR Copy and Paste these one at a time : (Hit enter after each)
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
Also run the System File Checker utility:
Press Windows key + X
Click Task Manager
Click File > New Task (Run)
Type: CMD
Hold down Shift, click OK
At the Command Prompt, type: sfc/scannow
This will check for any integrity violations
Restart your system
If that does not work, uninstall your display driver.
Boot to the Windows 10 desktop
Press Windows key + X
Click Device Manager
Expand Display adapters
Right click the current display adapter
Click Uninstall
Exit Device Manager
Restart
Windows 10 will automatically reinstall it.
If the above don't work, you have one of two options:
Option 1: perform a repair upgrade to see it repairs the Start menu:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki...
Option 2: Rollback to your previous version of Windows 10:
I'm not surprised you are having trouble with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
There seems to be some early adopter issues at this time with Windows 10 1709, if you can, I recommend you downgrade to your previous version until the Fall Creators Update matures with future cumulative updates.
Open Start > Settings > Update & security > Recovery > under Go back to my previous version of Windows 10, click Get started.
