Windows 10 Start Menu Broken Build 9926

[ttsoldier]

Laptop is on Build 9926 with latest updates. Start menu was working fine all the time until today it just does not launch...

Even the search bar/Cortana does not work. I cannot type anything into the bar.

Might just have to do a refresh :/

Also have problems with my Wifi... Even if a network is saved and I select "connect automatically", once the computer is restarted, the "connect automatically" box is deselected and I have to restart manually...

 

[Vitor Salvatore Pierce]

Go to Action Center, and activate Tablet Mode. Try if Start Menu works and come back to "normal mode".
If don't work: Open PowerShell as Admin and try this:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

and press enter

 

[anon(5335899)]

And you did install the update available to fix this?

 

[anon(8150199)]

Got this problem too, but already done an in-place install.

 

[anon(8150199)]

Go to Action Center, and activate Tablet Mode. Try if Start Menu works and come back to "normal mode".
If don't work: Open PowerShell as Admin and try this:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

and press enter

In my case, the notification center was also dud!

 

[Vitor Salvatore Pierce]

In my case, the notification center was also dud!

So try the second one. =P

 

[Shake N Bake00]

Check your user account control settings. Make sure the bar is at the recommended setting. Then Restart your device

 

[sylau90]

tried both methods. Still don't work.

 

[Dieter Karner]

try disabling "Auto-Hide the taskbar"

 

[sylau90]

try disabling "Auto-Hide the taskbar"

It's already disabled.

 

[Vitor Salvatore Pierce]

I think you need a clean install.

 

[taymur]

this is my issue too, hopefully i will not have to reinstall windows as this will be very inconvenient.

​even after the update...

​what i think we should do is try to identify what is common in PCs/ Laptops that are having this issue, maybe we can solve it.

 

[Glenn Ruysschaert]

Go to Action Center, and activate Tablet Mode. Try if Start Menu works and come back to "normal mode".
If don't work: Open PowerShell as Admin and try this:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

and press enter

The PowerShell method worked, thanks!

 

[taymur]

anyone with a good idea how to solve this, tries all these methods, non worked for me.

​im still unable to access the start menu, launch any app from the task bar, nor the action center works.

 

[Ricardo Zandonai]

open task mananger and close search "magnifier icon" and run powoershell as a root
to do that i make win+r powershell.exe after open go in task bar click with other mouse buton inside powershell icon and run as a administrator and execute
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}


Work to me =D

Sry for my bad english

 

[sylau90]

Hi Ricardo, thanks for your solution. At least I got the powershell run through this time. But start menu, action center and modern app still don't work. (closing the search magnifier icon in task manager is the key for the script to be executed).




To help identify this issue in more specific way, I hope people can post what kind of hardware they are using.

mine is Lenovo y500: Intel core i7 3630, 8gb ram, 128gb ssd, 64bit windows 10

 

[Hackashaq]

Yes! Thank you! The second method worked for me. I have start menu and action center back now. Only weird thing many of my start menu icons are blank, just colored squares. Calculator and flipboard are two examples.

 

[Alan Liu1]

Another way. Search the UAC and set it back to default settings, then restart it works fine ^.^

 

[anon(8150199)]

anyone with a good idea how to solve this, tries all these methods, non worked for me.

​im still unable to access the start menu, launch any app from the task bar, nor the action center works.

Seems like only an in-place reinstall fixes it. In my case, VirtualBox screwed things up twice.

 

[hmmcclish]

I was able to get my start menu back with the following steps:

Launch the Registry Editor (hit the Windows key and R, type regedit, and then press Enter) and then navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ ImmersiveShell\Launcher

Click Edit > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value, and name it UseExperience.
Double-click the newly created item and set the value to 0.
Click OK, close the Registry Editor and then restart your computer -- or just restart Explorer. (If you can still right-click on your start button, you can use Task Manager to restart Explorer.)

Source: I reversed the process found in this post about Continuum, the new version of the start menu.

betanews dot com/2014/11/14/how-to-enable-continuum-in-windows-10-technical-preview-build-9879/