Action Center / Start Menu / Systems Broker Crashing / ShellExperienceHost Crashing

[GatsbyGlen]

For about the past 3 days now, I'm seeing System Settings Broker "stopped working" in the reliability history. Additionally, I'm seeing a lot of issues with the Windows Shell Experience Host in the event viewer. What happens is that the action center is not accessible (clicking on it does nothing), and hitting the Win key to bring up the start menu does nothing.

The following is probably the same situation I have. Just wondering if anyone here has any ideas. The support over at answers.microsoft.com is pathetic.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...0/789ced22-cf96-4662-a5f3-6270b401163a?page=1

Maybe I should disable Cortana.

 

[Richard Culverhouse]

Have you used a any of those privacy-related tools?

 

[GatsbyGlen]

Have you used a any of those privacy-related tools?

What tools are you referring to?

 

[GatsbyGlen]

Well, I found that disabling "Device Search History" and "Search Online and Include Web Results" in the Cortana settings seems to have helped.