Fix problems with the Start menu

If you can’t see Start on your taskbar, the taskbar may be hidden.

Show a hidden taskbar

Press the Windows logo key + I, then select Personalization > Taskbar .

Turn on Lock the taskbar.

Turn off Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode or Automatically hide the taskbar in tablet mode.

If that doesn’t resolve the issue you’re experiencing, select any of the following headings to see steps you can try to get it working again.

Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager. You may need to select More details at the bottom of the window to see everything.

Select the Processes tab.

Scroll down to Windows Explorer, select it, then select Restart.

The process may take a few seconds, and your taskbar and Start menu may not be visible while Windows Explorer restarts. You can close Task Manager when the process is complete.

Press the Windows logo key + I.

In Settings, choose Update & security > Windows Update , and then select Check for updates. Install any available updates and restart your computer if required.

Note: Need another way to get to Settings? Press the Windows logo key + R, then type ms-settings: (note the colon) in the Open box. Select OK to open Settings.

If you didn’t have any updates that required a restart, it’s still a good idea to restart your device to make sure any pending updates are installed.

To restart your device when you can’t access Start , press Ctrl + Alt + Delete, select Power and then select Restart .

Note: You can also manually shut down your device by pressing and holding the power button. Shutting down this way risks losing unsaved data, so first be sure to save and close everything you’re working on. If you shut down this way, you can restart your device by pressing the power button again.

While it’s likely you have the most recent drivers, if you’re still having trouble with the Start menu, you can try fixing it by manually updating your graphics or audio drivers. For more info, see Update drivers in Windows 10.

If you still can’t fix your problem with the Start menu, try creating a new local administrator account.

If you’re signed in with your Microsoft account, remove the link to that account first by doing the following (if that’s not how you’re signed in, skip to creating a new administrator account):

Press the Windows logo key + I.

In Settings, select Accounts > Your info (in some versions, it may be under Email & accounts instead).

Select Sign in with a local account instead. You’ll see this link only if you’re using a Microsoft account, and you may not see it if your device is on a network.

Type your Microsoft account password and select Next.

Choose a new account name, password, and password hint, and then select Finish and sign out.

Create the new administrator account:

Press the Windows logo key + I.

In Settings, select Accounts > Family & other people (or Other users , if you’re using Windows 10 Enterprise).

Under Other users , select Add someone else to this PC.

On Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Professional, provide a name for the user and a password, and then select Next. On Windows 10 Enterprise, select I don’t have this person’s sign-in information, and then select Add a user without a Microsoft account.

Set a user name, password, and password hint. Then select Next > Finish.

Next, make the new account an administrator account:

Under Family & other people (or Other users , if you’re using Windows 10 Enterprise), choose the account you created, and then select Change account type.

Under Account type, select Administrator > OK.

Sign out of your account and then sign in to your new account. If everything is fixed, move your personal data and files to the new account.

To move your personal files from your old account to your new account, try opening File Explorer, expanding This PC > OSDisk (C:), and looking in the Users folder, where you should see folders for both accounts. You can then copy and paste your files from the old account folder to similar locations in the new account folder. Or if you prefer, you can upload your files from your old account to OneDrive, and then sign into the new account and download the files from OneDrive.

If the problem still isn’t fixed, try deleting the old administrator account:

Under Other users, select the old administrator account, then select Remove > Delete account and data.

After the old account is removed, restart your device and sign in with the new account again.

If you were using a Microsoft account to sign in before, associate the Microsoft account with the new administrator account.

In Settings , select Accounts > Your info (in some versions, it may be under Email & accounts instead).

Select Sign in with a Microsoft account instead and enter your account info. You’ll see this link only if you’re using a local account, and you may not see it if your device is on a network.

Note: Need another way to get to Settings? Press Windows logo key + R, then type ms-settings: (note the colon) in the Open box. Select OK to open Settings.

If none of the previous options work, try resetting your PC using Recovery options in Windows 10.

Как вернуть меню Пуск для Windows 10 — воспользуемся утилитой Classic Shell

Тема, и очень полезная — о том как вернуть в Windows 10 привычное меню Пуск? такое, которое было в более ранних версиях… к примеру, в виндовс 7.

Этот возврат справедлив: многие из нас консервативны… в их числе и я. Да и непривычен, неудобен этот новый дизайн винды 10 как-то…

Однако разработчики то и дело меняют внешний вид десятки.

Ну, бог с ними — а мы делаем удобства себе сами…

Итак-с: есть замечательные способы вернуть прежнее и привычное меню в операционную систему 10, а попросту — чтобы внешнее управление Windows 10 стало как, например, в в. 7.

И — благо, сложностей с этим возвратом Пуск никаких!

Ну, давайте с этими способами разберёмся поподробнее…

как сделать пуск как в Windowsи 7

Замечательно поможет программа Classic Shell. Программа или утилита поможет вернуть привычное «Пуск» к его прежнему, удобному для нас виду.

Утилита включает в себя несколько полезных составляющих, с ними вы разберётесь сами, — а нас сегодня интересует свойство для меню Пуск:

Classic Start Menu — вот оно и поможет вернуть Пуск.

Для начала нужно скачать Classic Shell с официального сайта … на русском языке !

Classic Shell для Windows 10

Когда программа загружена на компьютер, приступаем к её установке:

Нам необходимо отключить ненужные компоненты. …для нашей цели всего-то потребуется параметр Classic Start Menu .

Галочку для автоматического обновления программы, возможно, лучше оставить…

Ну и на этом всё !! дожидаемся завершения установки программы и — обязательно перезагружаем компьютер.

После перезагрузки системы сразу заметите что пуск Windows 10 кардинально изменился (с откатом, так сказать). Всего-то и нужно из примеров визуальных картинок меню «Пуск» выбрать — или оставить стандартную т.е по умолчанию: думайте сами, решайте сами)).

Выбор вариаций окошка будет типа такого как на картинке…

любые изменения возможно регулировать и во время работы в дальнейшем — в любой удобный момент. В параметрах «Настройки»…

Путь к настройкам Classic Shell таков: «Стиль» / «Основные параметры» / «Обложка» / «Настройка» и пометьте птичкой «Показать все параметры» — сохраните новые настройки!

Программа (или утилита, как угодно) Classic Shell — по умолчанию имеет достаточно оптимальные настройки для обычного пользователя, так что полностью на ваше личное усмотрение настраивать более утончённо или нет.

как удалить Classic Shell с моего компьютера

Программа чистенько удаляется любыми предназначенными для этих целей инструментами…

К примеру этими:

Деинсталляцию можно осуществить, используя такую общеизвестную как CCleaner .

Или — Uninstall Tool . — эта более чистенько подчищает всякие остатки удалённых (деинсталлированных) файлов!!

…а в том числе возможно удалить Classic Shell стандартными расширениями Windows !!

например, ЕСТЬ такие программы для возврата кнопки и меню Пуск в Windows 8.1 и 10

Удобное меню «Пуск» — //www.handystartmenu.com/rus

Start 8 — //www.stardock.com/products/start8

Classic Shell — //www.classicshell.net

Spesoft Free Windows 8 Start Menu — //www.spesoft.com/free-windows-8-start-menu.aspx

Power 8 — //code.google.com/archive/p/power8

Wentutu Windows8 Start Menu — //wentutu.com

Start Menu X — //www.startmenux.com/ru

ViStart 8 — //increaseblog.ru/obzor-programm/kak-vernut-knopku-pusk-windows-8.html

7 полезных программ для оптимальной работы Виндовс.

Win10 start menu won`t open (SOLUTION)

To all people that suffer from same problems as I did:
-Win 10`s start menu won`t open after restart

-Win 10`s menu stops working after few days if your pc has been idle or just on.

-Win 10`s menu works after AC power down

-Win 10`s menu won`t work after restart unless you log out and relog through CTRL+ALT+DEL

It took me 7 hours to find cause of this problem, lots program reinstallations and browsing through internet.
Even Microsoft support didn`t provide the right answer for this problem, they just give you commands and advices to create new accounts, cleanup this, reinstall that, clean boot this, normal boot that. But what they don`t say is that all those problems are caused by their so called «feature» that released with their «Fall Creators Update». A feature that saves some data into the memory, so after restart it start`s to open all your chrome windows and other programs.

CAUSE:
Your windows might get some conflicts with some programms during the session, before the update if you shutdown/restart your pc, windows where just dumping all the data out of the window, after the update it started to save it to the memory (including all the conflicted data). THANK YOU MICROSOFT!

SOLUTION:
Go to your Search icon on the taskbar, type > Settings > Accounts > Sing-In options > Under «Privacy» uncheck/disable «Use my sing-in info to automatically setting up my device after an update or restart» > Restart

Hope it helps folks!
3DArtist

And ofcourse:
Microsoft, you`ve already forced us into updates with Win10.
Will you now please stop screwing up windows even more with your pointless system breaking features!
Stop reinventing the wheel.

Windows 10 Start Menu Not Working (Solved)

Kris Koishigawa

Windows 10 has come a long way since it was first launched in 2015. Each update brings a lot of new features, and Microsoft has embraced the open source community in a way that was once thought impossible.

Still, like with any operating system, there are bugs. And one of the more common bugs people running Windows 10 have faced is that the Start Menu suddenly stops working.

Sometimes the open Start Menu freezes up and is unresponsive, and other times it won’t open at all when you click the Start Menu button.

Whatever specific issue you’re having with the Windows 10 Start Menu, we’ll go over some quick and not so quick fixes in this article.

How to restart Windows Explorer

Windows Explorer, which is now called File Explorer, is the application you use to browse your file system and open programs and files. But it also controls things like the Start Menu, the taskbar, and other applications.

If you have an issue with the Start Menu, the first thing you can try to do is restart the “Windows Explorer” process in the Task Manager.

To open the Task Manager, press Ctrl + Alt + Delete, then click the “Task Manager” button.

Click “More details” to see a full list of open programs and background processes you’re running:

Scroll through the list until you find the “Windows Explorer” process. Then right click on “Windows Explorer” and select “Restart”:

There will be a brief flash while Windows restarts Windows Explorer/Finder, along with the taskbar and Start Menu.

After that, try to open the Start Menu. If it’s still not working normally, try one of the other fixes below.

How to repair corrupt or missing Windows system files

Sometimes an update goes awry, or you accidentally deleted an important file while digging around the filesystem.

If the Start Menu is still giving you trouble, or other core Windows apps are crashing, then you can try to restore any missing or corrupt Windows system files.

To do this, you’ll need to open the Windows Command Prompt as an administrator and run the System File Checker program.

Once you open Command Prompt as an administrator, run the command sfc /scannow :

System File Checker will start going through all your system files and replace any corrupt or missing files with a cached copy.

This process can take a little while, so feel free to do something else for 5-10 minutes. Just be careful not to close the window while sfc is doing its thing.

Once System File Checker is finished, you’ll either see a report of all the files it replaced, or if everything was fine, you’ll see a message like this:

If System File Checker replaced any corrupt or missing system files, save all of your open work and restart your computer. Once you log back in, try to open the Start Menu to see if that fixed your issues.

Note: You could also use Powershell to run the sfc /scannow command, but remember that you’ll need to open an elevated Powershell terminal.

How to reset the Start Menu with default Windows 10 apps

The next thing you can try is to reset the Start Menu entirely, along will all the Windows 10 apps that were preinstalled or installed from the Microsoft Store.

To do this, you’ll need to open PowerShell as an administrator – Command Prompt won’t work for the command you’ll run.

There are many ways to open PowerShell, but one of the fastest ways is to use the Run program.

Use the shortcut Windows Key + R to open the Run program, enter «powershell», then click the «OK» button:

This should open up a PowerShell terminal with administrative privileges.

In the PowerShell terminal, run the following command:

The Get-AppXPackage command will attempt to reinstall all the default Windows apps, including the Start Menu and search bar.

It will also register a manifest file for each program it reinstalls. You don’t need to worry about the manifest files, though – it’s just something Windows needs to run each program.

Give it 5-10 minutes, and make sure you don’t close the PowerShell window until it’s finished.

Note: You may see some scary looking errors pop up as the Get-AppXPackage command is running. Don’t worry about them – most are just warnings about why a program can’t be reinstalled:

When the Get-AppXPackage command is finished, restart your computer, log in, and try to open the Start Menu.

How to reset your Windows 10 installation

If none of the above methods fixed the Start Menu, the last thing you can try is to do a factory reset of your Windows 10 installation. But keep in mind that this is an «almost-scorched-earth» method, and should only be used as a last resort.

Resetting your Windows 10 installation should keep all of your personal files intact (documents, pictures, videos, and so on), but will uninstall all the other drivers and programs you’ve installed. Basically this resets your computer to the state it was in when you first turned it on.

Before going any further, make backups of all your important files using a flash drive, external HDD/SSD, and/or an online file host like Google Drive or Dropbox.

In fact, make two backups. You probably won’t need them, but it doesn’t hurt.

When you’ve finished backing up all your files, open a PowerShell terminal – use the shortcut Windows Key + R, enter «powershell», then click the «OK» button.

In the PowerShell terminal, run the command systemreset to bring up the Windows reset wizard.

Next, click the «Keep my files» button:

Wait a moment while the wizard analyzes your system. Then, you’ll see a list of all the programs that’ll be removed:

Click the «Next» button, and follow the instructions to reset your Windows 10 installation.

Once you’re finished resetting Windows and creating a new user, the Start Menu should be working again.

«Cortana, open the Start Menu»

So those are all the ways to fix the Windows 10 Start Menu, listed from easiest to hardest.

Did any of these methods work for you? Is there another way to open the Start Menu that I missed? Let me know about it on Twitter.

Kris Koishigawa

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