Everything was fine, and suddenly, the start menu button, including everything else on the taskbar, stopped working. I can right click on start button but if I try clicking volume, battery, action center etc icons, nothing happens.
I have tried the powershell command option and the only solution that seems to work for other people, is creating a new user account, this is my work laptop so I can't do that. Any ideas what might be going on?
I have tried the following solutions with no result:
1)
Right-click at Start and run Command Prompt as Admin Type command:
ren %windir%\System32\AppLocker\Plugin*.* *.bak Restart Windows Be
happy Thank you UHLIK from THIS thread on the Microsoft Forum after
reading THIS thread on the forum.
2)
Right-click at Start and click RUN type SERVICES.MSC and press the
enter key right click on APPLICATION IDENTITY and select START Be
happy… a reboot is not required UPDATED: August 19, 2015: A third fix
I have used successfully is:
3)
Create a new user and log into it Right click on the START button and
select COMMAND PROMPT (RUN AS ADMINSTRATOR) Type dism /online
/cleanup-image /restorehealth Restart the PC Log back into the
problematic profile hopefully you’ll find the store and apps work
again
4)
Press Windows Key + R on your keyboard. Key in PowerShell and hit
Enter. Right click on the PowerShell icon on the taskbar and select
Run as Administrator. Now paste the following command in the
Administrator: Windows PowerShell window and press Enter key:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage
-DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”} Wait for PowerShell to
execute and complete the command. Ignore the few errors (in red color)
that may pop up. When it finishes, try hitting Start and hopefully
it’ll start working.
Best Answer
I removed everything from the folder:
except the file named "vedatamodel.edb". And clicked the start menu, and it worked.