Windows 10 Start Menu Stops Working – Troubleshooting Guide

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I recently upgraded to windows 10 on my daily driver laptop and I have liked it so far except for one thing. Randomly the windows menu decides to stop working when I press the windows key or I press the button in the corner. Has anybody else experienced this problem? Solutions?
Thanks!

Best Answer

Open Powershell as Administrator and enter this command:

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

This command disables development mode on the apps, and re-registers the manifest file for the app.

Taken from: http://forums.windowscentral.com/ask-question/370916-start-menu-not-working-windows-10-build-10240-a.html

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My company uses Windows 10 Enterprise and the following resolved the issue for me.

Run Powershell as an admin administrator.

Reinstall the Windows apps using the following command:

Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

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