Windows 10: My Windows Start Bar is wiped out AGAIN

All my Windows Start bar items have disappeared again. Again fourth time in under a year I am left with only the Microsoft default "Productivity" set.It really is bugging me. See below where this happened May 2022, November 2022, February 2023 and April 2023.The only thing that works is to restore a backup. I can't keep going back to a 6 month old restore point. Even if I sit and manually rebuild teh Start bar, it will collapse again in 3 months time.Why does this keep happening to me? What exactly IS happening? What do I have to do to fix it? Permanently.Please

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Start Bar not working after update install in Windows 10


Hi, tried as you suggest. It starts and says Checking application registration... and the green progress bar just goes on and on (let it run for over two hours) and never gets to the next step. Any other suggestions?

 

HyperSLI (Enabling SLI on non-sli motherboards)

To turn off windows updates in windows 7 follow these steps:

Click the start button, in the search box type in 'windows updates', click on 'windows update'
in the search results list, in the left side of the windows update window click 'change settings'
then in the option bar select 'Never check for updates'.

 

Unable to access Start menu, Search bar, notification buttons on Task bar after install the Update KB3139907 on Windows 10

Hi John,

Thank you for responding.

We are glad to know that you are able to access Search bar and notification center after performing the above troubleshooting steps.

For the issues with Start menu, try the below steps.

Step 1: I suggest you to run the below PowerShell command to re-register Start menu and check if it helps.

Follow:

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  Right click on the Taskbar and select
  Task Manager from the context menu.
  
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  In the Task Manager window, click on
  File and on Run new task.
  
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  Type powershell, place a check mark on
  Create this task with administrative privileges and click Ok.
  
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  In the administrative Windows PowerShell window, carefully type the below command and hit Enter key from the keyboard.
  

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  Get-appxpackage -all *shellexperience* -packagetype bundle |% {add-appxpackage -register -disabledevelopmentmode ($_.installlocation + “\appxmetadata\appxbundlemanifest.xml”)}
  

5. Once the command execution is completed successfully, close the PowerShell window and reboot/ restart the computer.

NOTE: When you are running the PowerShell command, I recommend you to close all the apps on your system and try.

If the issue still persists,

Step 2: I suggest you to try the troubleshooting steps mentioned in the below Microsoft article and check if it helps.

Get help with the Windows 10 Start menu

Hope it helps. Kindly update the status of this issue for further assistance.