Windows 10: My start menu and task bar aren't working correctly

My start menu won't work properly. I can right click it and it brings up black box of selections but if you select any it doesn't do anything. I had to to Windows +R to get a box and type control to get to that. I've tried running the repair option and ran safe mode to try other things and can't figure it out what is going on. My task bar isn't fully loading either. I think my grandson hit some keys and screwed it up. Please help. I did a system restore also and nothing changed.

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Cortana, Task Bar and Start Menu not working.

Original Title:

My Windows 10 Task Bar and Start Menu are not working.

Hello,

Since the beginning of the month, my task bar and start menu are not functioning correctly. I am unable to right click on programs on the task bar. I am unable left click on the volume control, notifcations, internet, or calendar/time. Left clicking on the
start menu and cortona does nothing either.

I have searched online for a few fixes, but nothing seems to work.

Would appreciate any help.

Zarek Shaikh

 

Start Menu and Task Bar not working

Hi,

I've had an issue for several weeks where my Start Menu and Task Bar don't respond (or respond very intermittently) to both left and right mouse clicks. I've searched the net and this community forum, and it appears that this problem has been pretty prevalent
for at least a couple of years.

I've tried the most commonly proposed solutions, e.g.

• The PowerShell as administrator solution, using "
  
  Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}". This just hangs indefinitely, with the progress bar never moving. I've left this for
  over an hour, and seen no movement at all in the bar.

• I've tried the sfc /scannow solution multiple times. The first few times, it just reported that it couldn't find any issues. Recently, it now just says: "Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service"
  

The only way I've actually been able to temporarily resolve the problem, is by shutting down the PC and then pulling the power cord on the PC. This restores all functionality for the next session, but then the next time I restart or shutdown and then restart
my PC, the Start Menu and Task Bar is broken again.

I've been struggling with this issue for nearly a month now, and it's starting to become incredibly frustrating. This is especially true when it appears that the issue has been ongoing for years, and none of the suggested solutions appear to work. Any help
that anyone can provide would be enormously appreciated, as I'm starting to get incredibly frustrated by this issue.

Thanks in advance,

Pizzicato

 

Icons from apps aren´t displayed correctly






The native apps from the system are all showing this strange square instead of the normal icons. Please help resolve this problem. Thanks