Windows 10: After a Windows Update, my action center and start menu don't work

Hello, I've been running a Windows 10 laptop for about seven months now and haven't had any issue with it until it decided to automatically update this week. And ever since then, I've been having an issue with my laptop's taskbar. If I click on either the start menu or action center, the loading circle appears beside my cursor for a second, but nothing happens.


Weirdly enough, I can use Cortana just fine. But if I try to open the calendar on the taskbar or try to right click on anything, absolutely nothing happens. I've tried so many different things to try to fix it, but to no avail.


I've made sure it was completely updated, I uninstalled the update, I created a new administrator account on my computer, I restarted Windows Explorer, I've done a DISM scan with PowerShell, I've scanned my computer for viruses or malware, I've clean booted, I've uninstalled and re-installed my anti-virus and anti-malware programs, and I even did an inplace upgrade. Still absolutely nothing.


I'm at the end of my rope, the only thing I can think of is a factory reset, but I don't want to do that. If anyone can think of something I haven't tried, please let me know.

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Action Center and Start Menu Continually Fail


Device: Surface Pro 4
OS: Fully Updated Windows 10

Issue: Action Center and Start Menu continually fail.
Symptoms: After an unpredictable amount of time, Action Center and Start Menu will not open using multiple prompts. Action Center will not respond to taskbar link or swipe from the right and Start Menu will not respond to task bar click or keyboard button.

Troubleshooting:

• I have done several SFC scans (the first few found stuff and repaired it and subsequent runs find nothing)
• I've done the DISM image restore health hocus pocus to no avail.
• I've executed "Get-AppxPackage | % { Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppxManifest.xml" -verbose }" in an elevated powershell. This works, until it doesn't.

EDIT: Nothing is working now for troubleshooting. Going to try a restart and see how long until it happens again.


​None of these are permanent solutions. Any ideas as what is causing this and how to stop it from happening?

 

Start menu and action center is not working in Windows 10

Hi,

I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve the issue.

Before we proceed, I need more information to help you better.

• 
  What is the exact issue that you’re facing with Start menu?
  
• 
  Are you not able to open Start menu?
  
• 
  Are you getting any error message?
  

I suggest you to follow the step below and check if it helps.

Step 1: Check for the latest updates and install.

• 
  Press Windows logo key +R, enter
  MS-settings: and then press OK. This opens Settings.
  
• 
  In Settings, go to Update & security >
  Windows Update, and then select Check for updates. Install any available updates and restart your PC if required.
  

Step 2: I suggest you to run
Start menu troubleshooter. After you've completed the troubleshooter, restart your device.

Keep us posted on this issue so that we can assist you better.

 

Disable Action Center in Windows 7?

Unfortunately that doesn't disable Action Center, all it does it cause Acution Center to bitch about the Security Center service not running.

Action Center seems to be a different beast from Security Center...

And telling it to not display any messages gets it out of the way, the same way disabling the icon in the suggestions above does, but Action Center is still enabled and running.