Windows 10: All windows 10 apps/start menu not working since system recovery

recently I had to use system recovery on my computer, after which all the windows 10 "apps" stopped working:

• pressing the home/search/action center buttons on the taskbar does nothing, the windows key on the keyboard does nothing too.
• right clicking on the home button doesn't work either.
• can't open settings or any of its derivative functions either (such as the win10 variant of "uninstall or change program"), the keyboard shortcut 'win' + 'I' does nothing either (but 'win' + 'R' works fine).
• Control Panel and all of the win7 features work fine though.
• can't open windows store app either.
• trying to open Microsoft Edge, Media Player or Photo Viewer apps returns a "Class not registered" error.
• when trying to open anything in fullscreen mode (such as videos, Internet pages or games) the taskbar will always stay on top.

I have already tried resetting explorer.exe, found no errors with "sfc /scannow" in powershell, ran "Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth" "CheckHealth" & "RestoreHealth", and used "Get-appxpackage -all *shellexperience* -packagetype bundle |% {add-appxpackage -register -disabledevelopmentmode ($_.installlocation + "\appxmetadata\appxbundlemanifest.xml")}" to no avail.


I'd try to update windows, but with no access to the settings I'm not sure how I can do that.

is there any way I can solve this?

:)

 

Feature suggestions - move to proper menus, add Options window

Suggestions:
1) Remove main menus from top left menu (system menu) and move them to a standard Windows menu, at the top.
Leave the 6 system menu items (Restore --- Close) in system menu, move all the rest to that standard main menu. The main menu can be auto-hidable - pressing Alt key to invoke it or hide it, similar to the way IE11 menus and many Windows 10 built-in apps' menus work.

2) And/or, add an Options menu or button, which would invoke a separate screen with GPU-Z Options, similar to how most Windows apps work.
Most Windows apps have a separate Options screen, which GPU-Z lacks - one should be added.

Thanks in advance for listening!

 

Windows 10 Start menu issue

Maybe this can help re Pin to start mate.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ndows-10/2d5507fb-939b-4d53-98a8-78e1ab93adde

 

Windows 10 Start Menu all apps / tiles missing


So I woke my computer up from sleep last night and this is what I was welcomed with:




All of a sudden my start menu had no apps listed and no live tiles to speak of. So I did my googleing and I found this microsoft answer page: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...0-b988cd6da49a

I tried every step in their. After all said and done, I got installed programs to show up, but the live tiles that usually show to the right did not come back. I was ok with that, thinking I would work on this today and find a solution to that problem.

I just woke up the computer again from sleep and the start menu is blank AGAIN. Before this started happening last night, I have not installed any new software nor has windows ran any updates.

I'm at a loss. I tried system recovery and to roll back to a few days prior, but I keep getting an error after recovery is attempted stating that windows recovery wasn't able to fully complete due to a certain file (i can retry recovery and post picture of error if needed).

So any suggestions on whats my next step? I thought maybe I had a malware issue, but II have avast and malware antibytes installed and they showed no hits when the scans where run.

Any suggestions or guidance is greatly appreciated. Hope you all have a Great Turkey Day!

PS, I have to work today from 4pm to 6am, so If I do not reply right away I apologize.