Windows 10: How to fix blinking of the sidebar in start menu? Win10 20H2

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Windows 20H2 Domain Join breaks Start Menu

Upon doing a recovery of a system to start with a clean slate, it now installs 20H2. All looks good. Start menu and taskbar look normal.

We then join it to our domain. Upon reboot, the start menu will not show the applications list. No option to expose it. Start menu settings shows "Show app list in start menu" greyed out. Trying to log out shows as the only option "Change Account Settings"
Right clicking on taskbar, the task manager is greyed out. We checked the GPO for the start menu app list removal and it is listed as "not configured". Tried setting the local policy to different settings with no effect.

Read thru the event viewer and nothing jumped out as related.

All very strange. We are a hospital that has been running this AD schema for a number of years. It is based on Windows Server 2012 R2. We have over 250 systems with multiple levels of windows 10 Pro systems in production, with none of them showing these
behaviors. At this point, 20H2 is unusable for us.

 

Windows 10 Start Menu: Set the folder sidebar as expanded at all times.

Sorry that customization is not currently possible as the sidebar would be on top of the alphabetical list of applications on the start menu.

There are rumours that Microsoft might be adding some Start Menu customization features in a future update as a lot of users have asked to be able to modify their Start Menu

 

Start Menu Sidebar missing after Microsoft update yesterday

We appreciate you for getting back to us with the result, Ann. However, we'll need more information regarding your concern about your missing Start menu sidebar. Kindly answer the following questions:

• Have you tried logging in to a different user account and seeing if the issue persists?
• Which update did you install before the issue occurred?

Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.