Windows 10: Can't access the start menu, or action center

I bought MS Surface Book i5 from a pawn shop. I guess they wiped it and reset it. I can't access the start menu, action center, settings menu, theres no browsers, no apps, no cortana nothing. All i can really do is get a wifi connection and open windows store. It has Win 10 Pro Ver.10.0.17134 Build 17134 Please Help.

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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 view change

My start menu and action center icons in my toolbar have changed and I am not sure why. I have a surface pro 4. My action center icon brings up a list but containing open action center or turn on quiet hours. When I select open action center nothing
happens. Previously the icon would bring up a pop up window with information and other links. When I click the start icon instead of the tile format with options it comes up in a old list format similar to windows 7. What setting has changed to cause this
problem and how do I return to the current tile format?

 

Action Center

Hi,

Let's follow these steps to disable action center:

• Click on Start, type notifications in the search box.
• In the list, select notifications & action settings.
• On the right side, click on turn system icons on or off.
• Turn off action center from there.

Hope it helps. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to reply. We will be glad to assist you.