Windows 10 Can't acces start menu

[RV27]

Hello,

In windows 10 bulid 10586.164 (stable version) I can't access the start-menu or I can't open the search bar. Could someone help me how to solve this problem?

 

[bochane]

Is it a new installation, or a new upgrade? Has it worked before? Have you tried installing updates or is an update pending or being installed?

For now, wait some time, a night or so, reboot and see what happens.

 

[RV27]

The installation is an upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10. The start menu has worked before, for now it doesn't work. As far as I know are all updates installed, but I will check once more tomorrow. Thanks for your help.

 

[RV27]

Today I have tried to restart the computer but I have got still the same problem. Is there another way how I could solve this? Or is the only way to use an installation disk to restore the system?

 

[bochane]

Sorry to hear that leaving the system alone and reboot did not help.

Go to All Settings > Update > System Restore, there is an option to completely reinstall W10. The sources are downloaded to your PC; you don't need an installation disk.

 

[Neemobeer]

On machines I've encountered this on it required a clean install to fix it. In most cases Windows is corrupt.

 

[holdum333]

You could also try do a repair install of Windows 10 by performing an in-place upgrade without losing anything other than all the windows up dates . You will need the Media Creation Tool for that!