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Anybody else notice the Start Menu is open when the Windows 10 system resumes from sleep? At first I thought maybe the mouse was left over the Start Button which was opening the menu, but that does not appear to be the case. I suppose this is designed as part of the Revenue Stream Microsoft is...

Good day, community! One day I tried Groove to find my music and assigned it to search on :C, which gave me over 7k titles. So when I tried to change where it should search again, nothing happened, after which I decided to restart the pc to see if anything has changed. It has indeed. After the...

If you upgraded from Windows 8.1 and miss the old style Start screen you can enable it in Windows 10. Open the Start menu and click settings. Open the Personalisation tab: Look down the left hand side for 'Start' and click that. You'll then see some options relating to the Start menu and...

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When I log on as the second user on my windows 10 laptop nothing works. I cannot click the start menu. I cannot right click anywhere. The first user works fine. The second is an administrator also as standard users cannot log on at all. Any ideas?

I upgraded from Windows 7 Home Premium to windows 10 but i have noticed i can no longer use the start menu. Also if i right click on any file in a folder or on desktop everything freezes. When i access the task manager that also freezes with a not responding in brackets at the top. How can i get...

I am quite happy with windows 10 except for one thing. When I click on the little windows start menu icon the cursor just goes round and round and the start menu doesn't open up. When I right click on it I get the normal desktop list. Is there something I need to change to be able to get the...

I have a problem in that Windows 10 is not working for me, and I am trying to roll back to Windows 7. One of the difficulties is a non functioning Start Menu. So how to I get to Settings and then Update and Security etc to begin the roll back process to Windows 7?

How do you remove items from the start menu/all apps? Thanks for any help. I didn't find anything searching.

I upgraded my laptop to windows 10 and was quite happy with it until my desktop icons disappeared and the tiles that you saw when clicking on the start button that were small suddenly became big like windows 8 and took over the whole screen! How can I get it back to when it first installed?

Loaded it on my spare 500gb HD, took ages & had to do it twice from the 7gb usb stick. The swiping to the right does not work. Any other way to get whatever is in there? Do you think Classic Shell will work onw10? The dropdown menu from the Start Button seems fully active. Cntrl. panel I had...

When I right click my Taskbar and select Properties, I have Taskbar, Navigation and Toolbars Tabs, but there is no Start Menu Tab. I can't customize my Start Menu. Isn't there supposed to be a Start Menu Tab? Thanks

Hello, Windows Forum! Having a bit of an issue with 10 that maybe somebody else has solved. I opened my start menu and started removing the pre-installed apps to personalize it, like I'd done with 8, and came across the Cortana button. I clicked it out of curiosity and after a while it...

The situation is I can't add any item to the "start list', which is the list on the left of the start icons. As far as I've read, it's supposed to be as easy as dragging an icon, but it can't be done I get an "x" when I reach the destination at the left. Strange also, is that in my context menu...

what do i do?? I have two user accounts on my computer and the other users start menu works just fine. Mine however (the administrator account) does not work / respond at all. When i click the start button i see a little blue loading wheel appear for a split second and then nothing happens and...

A friend's computer appears to have Filemaker on it (much to our surprise) but it doesn't show in the list of programs in the start menu or in 'Uninstall programs. Why is this and how can I get it to do so? I have found the exe file and put an icon on the desktop.

Microsoft has confirmed that these features from Windows 8/8.1 will not be available in Windows 10 when it is released. read more Continue reading...

Hi I have some new issues with version 10240. One is that many of the Apps either won't open or open and close immediately. This isn't true of all of them but it is for Mail, People, Calendar and the Store. All of these worked in the previous builds. Weather, Getting started and several...

Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (Link Removed for details on how) and send us the zip file...

Hi I was surprised that CCleaner popped up saying that I had a lot of material to remove since I had run it last night. A quick check showed that I had a new "Windows.Old" folder. I went to Windows update and sure enough version 10162 was ready to install. I never realised that it created the...