Windows 10: Cannot acces start or settings on W.10. Lost advice from Zadee c.

My windows 10: account is corrupted. My wife’s is not but she is not an administrator.. with help from Zadee C I tried to do a download and reinstall,of Windows 1O. That failed and is why I know about the corruption. . Zadee then provided detailed advice explaining how I could do a clean reinstall of Windows 10. I have managed to save all my files and my wife’s to one drive. The initials problem was that I could not access start and then settings. I have managed to lose Zadee’s andvice May he or someone else help please.William

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LOST WINDOWS 10 START MENU

After trying all suggested fixes, I finally was forced to use Windows Recovery under Settings to reload the full system. I lost all non-Microsoft applications but recovered the start menu. Though this was a painful, no other suggestions worked.

Windows created an HTML file listing all programs that was deleted and that was very helpful for reinstalling mt lost programs.

Thanks to everyone for their effort, perhaps Microsoft will discover the root cause of so many who are losing the Start menu and can prevent it in the future.

 

Start Menu List - Settings

You need to go one step further...

Settings >Personalization > Start, then click as shown by the RED square...

 

W-10, lost left channel sound shortly after Upgrade from W-7

If you could give us a list of actions you took that would minimize repeat suggestion. Have you tried head phone to see if you get sound from both sides? With the new card did you install it into the same PCIE slot? If so try another one. Check your balance settings. You have an ASRock MOBO, what model? Does It have onboard audio? Run DXDIAG from the RUN "Windows Key + R" command. Does it give any clues?