Windows 10: Apps won't open from taskbar, or open behind all other open screens

I have a new Dell computer running on Windows 10. Upon originally setting it up, the taskbar either 1. Will not open any of the apps on it, or 2. if it does open an app, it opens it up behind ever other currently open screen. You can only open apps on the front screen by typing the name of the app in the searchbar. This very annoying if you are working simultaneously on a number of apps, such as File Explorer, Word and Powerpoint. I have seen a few suggested fixes, but they make reference to buttons in Settings that do not appear on my Taskbar settings screen I seem to recall that, in older versions of Windows, there was a Taskbar setting that you could click and all new files opened on the top screen. I cannot seem to find such a button on this machine. If the apps are already open, you can access the files that are already open by hovering over the taskbar button for the app, but if the app is not already running, this does not work. Any suggestions?

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Apps won't open from taskbar, or open behind all other open screens

I have a new Dell computer running on Windows 10. Upon originally setting it up, the taskbar either 1. Will not open any of the apps on it, or 2. if it does open an app, it opens it up behind ever other currently
open screen. You can only open apps on the front screen by typing the name of the app in the searchbar. This very annoying if you are working simultaneously on a number of apps, such as File Explorer, Word and Powerpoint. I have seen a few suggested fixes,
but they make reference to buttons in Settings that do not appear on my Taskbar settings screen (I seem to recall that, in older versions of Windows, there was a Taskbar setting that you could click and all new files opened on the top screen. I cannot seem
to find such a button on this machine). If the apps are already open, you can access the files that are already open by hovering over the taskbar button for the app, but if the app is not already running, this does not work. Any suggestions?

 

Have Start screen open with “All Apps” list already opened?

Version 1607 Build 14393.105 does that, click Start and the full Apps list is scrollable.
Forgot to add this screenshot:

 

Have Start screen open with “All Apps” list already opened?


Is there a way to configure Windows 10 to have the start screen open and have the “All Apps” list already open?

The way it is now, pressing the Windows key opens the start screen with the “All Apps” icon and the “Sleep/Shut down/Restart” icon showing. I have to click the “All Apps” icon to open the list.