Windows 10: Cant access Start menu or taskbar

Discus and support Cant access Start menu or taskbar in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; Hello I recently got my PC up and running again and my windows 10 is being weird as shit. I cannot access the start menu, or windows settings or... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/CalmLiterateTalk, Apr 3, 2023.

  1. /U/CALMLITERATETALK
    /u/CalmLiterateTalk Win User

    Cant access Start menu or taskbar


    Hello I recently got my PC up and running again and my windows 10 is being weird as shit. I cannot access the start menu, or windows settings or anything beyond file explorer. I also cannot search for files in file explorer. I would like to just update to windows 11 to see if that fixes it, but it says incompatible and I cannot change the things to make it compatible because of my inability to access the start menu or settings. What do i do?

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    /u/CalmLiterateTalk, Apr 3, 2023
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  2. DREAMING VOID
    Dreaming Void Win User

    Taskbar hides and shows itself after opening start menu.

    Steps:

    1. Using HDMI for a second monitor.
    2. Open start menu using the icon.
    3. Close start menu using the icon.
    4. Click anywhere other than the task bars. (e.g. an open window, the desktop, even the first monitor's desktop)
    5. Taskbar on second monitor slides down to be hidden.
    6. Taskbar then immediately slides up to reappear.

    If after closing the start menu (step 3), you click on the taskbar, then click outside the taskbar, this behavior does not occur.

    Performing the steps on the main monitor's taskbar does not produce this behavior.

    This has been happening for as long as I can remember using this laptop (~3years), with different nVidia drivers and Windows 10 updates.
     
    Dreaming Void, Apr 3, 2023
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  3. NAKI
    Naki Win User
    Feature suggestion: Add right-click menu

    Suggestion: Please add a Windows 7 Jump-List and/or right-click menu to the GPU-Z icon in the Windows taskbar. Possible menus in it would be "Exit" and "About GPU-Z...".
    Maybe also "Switch to tab 1/Switch to tab 2/Switch to videocard 1/Switch to videocard 2" too.
    Examples of programs that have such menus are ICQ, Skype, AIM.

    NOTE: It seems for a right-click menu, Windows 7 is not needed - it works on WinXP and Vista too.
    But even a Windows 7 Jump-list may be good enough.
    What do you think?
     
    Naki, Apr 3, 2023
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  4. JANOTHIN
    Janothin Win User

    Cant access Start menu or taskbar

    Start Menu and Taskbar customization

    Hi everyone,

    Does anyone have recommendations on how to customize the start menu and taskbar for a deployment image? I've tried customizing the start menu and taskbar, then exporting the configuration into a XML, but the start menu appears in two columns when I want it half way along with the taskbar settings not sticking.

    Any suggestions will be great!
     
    Janothin, Apr 3, 2023
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