My Windows 11 Start Button is no longer working.

I had the same issue. I tried a bunch of things, not sure what made it work, but here's what I did:

I looked through the replies to this post, tried not all but most of the solutions, none worked.

Earlier today and a bit before I started intensely spam trying things, I got the pop up attached below (not 100% if it's the same one the first time because I did not snip, but this was the second time it showed up) My instincts told me that this is related to the windows start menu problems and how changing desktops with four fingers also leads to crashes. I kinda asked chatgpt at this point, which for me was a bit too much information.

I followed some of its steps but they did not work, until when I checked Event Viewer (windows + x -> Event Viewer) and saw that there were many errors and they all had to do with start menu and application crashing things.

I did the following steps, which eventually resulted in the fixing of the problem:

1. Restart Windows Explorer

Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager

Find Windows Explorer in the Processes tab

Right-click and select Restart

1. Repair Windows UI Components

Open Command Prompt as Administrator

Run:

(DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth)

Restart

1. Reinstall Start Menu Components

Open PowerShell as Administrator

Run:

(Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost | Reset-AppxPackage)

Restart

I didn't need to go on after that, the problem was fixed after that restart.

Oh yea btw another tip, don't hesitate to ask chatgpt. Chatgpt doesn't always provide valuable feedbacks/solutions, but since it has such an abundant source of information and knows definitely more than all of us, we could always try to see what it cooks up. And I guess, in my case that was an excellent move! Thx chatgpt ~

I hope this helps :D

I tried everything suggested and just had to reinstall. Very bad that Microsoft cannot make a simple system that works, rather than trying to ad, ad more useless sections/apps whatever.

Hi Kluawaart - my pc is suddenly having this same issue, but like others here, the start button doesn't work, nor if I right-click on it does the settings screen actually come up. In other words, I am not able to access the recommended way to fix the issue via the suggestions. I scanned through the entire thread, but there doesn't seem to be any fix posted. Any suggestions?

Your app doesn't work, and your suggestion doesn't work either - for me at least. Windows 11 Start Menu/Button not working. I can left-click the Start button to get that menu with Settings etc. Right click does nothing. Been like this since a likely hard shutdown.

I run your app as admin and I tell it the current position, it moves it to the left and then back to center, does your "registry fix" and says it was successful, but I still cannot open Start Menu.

I have a same problem with my PC too! I updating driver stuff and not working... (Windows 11, Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3, Intel Core i5 Alder Lake (12th generation))