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Discus and support Can't open right-click context menus on taskbar icons, can't open main start menu, can't... in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; I recently found I couldn't close a game app by right-clicking it's icon in the taskbar to open the menu to close it, nothing happens when I... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by Alexander Maw, Nov 12, 2024.

  1. Can't open right-click context menus on taskbar icons, can't open main start menu, can't...


    I recently found I couldn't close a game app by right-clicking it's icon in the taskbar to open the menu to close it, nothing happens when I right-click on any icon there.I also noticed the icon for Blender I had in the task bar has stopped working like the app is no longer there. I note that I installed it off of the Windows app store, in case there's a connection. Other apps on the task bar launch when clicked, I just don't get the context menu from right clicking them.In investigating the issue, I found that left clicking the windows icon in the corner of my screen also does nothing. Rig

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    Alexander Maw, Nov 12, 2024
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  2. Shawn Brink, Nov 13, 2024
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  3. Win10 start menu won`t open (SOLUTION)

    To all people that suffer from same problems as I did:

    -Win 10`s start menu won`t open after restart

    -Win 10`s menu stops working after few days if your pc has been idle or just on.

    -Win 10`s menu works after AC power down

    -Win 10`s menu won`t work after restart unless you log out and relog through CTRL+ALT+DEL

    It took me 7 hours to find cause of this problem, lots program reinstallations and browsing through internet.

    Even Microsoft support didn`t provide the right answer for this problem, they just give you commands and advices to create new accounts, cleanup this, reinstall that, clean boot this, normal boot that. But what they don`t say is that all those problems are
    caused by their so called "feature" that released with their "Fall Creators Update". A feature that saves some data into the memory, so after restart it start`s to open all your chrome windows and other programs.

    CAUSE:

    Your windows might get some conflicts with some programms during the session, before the update if you shutdown/restart your pc, windows where just dumping all the data out of the window, after the update it started to save it to the memory (including all the
    conflicted data). THANK YOU MICROSOFT!

    SOLUTION:

    Go to your Search icon on the taskbar, type > Settings > Accounts > Sing-In options > Under "Privacy" uncheck/disable "Use my sing-in info to automatically setting up my device after an update or restart" > Restart

    Hope it helps folks!

    3DArtist

    And ofcourse:

    Microsoft, you`ve already forced us into updates with Win10.

    Will you now please stop screwing up windows even more with your pointless system breaking features!

    Stop reinventing the wheel.
     
    3DArtist_007, Nov 13, 2024
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  4. Naki Win User

    Can't open right-click context menus on taskbar icons, can't open main start menu, can't...

    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?
     
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