Windows 10: Notification Centre Crashing & Start Menu Not Saving Layout

Hey everyone - recently I've been having a bit of trouble with Windows 10.I'm not entirely sure what triggered it but, for a while, every time that I open my notification centre, it crashes. The bar will open for a few seconds , my notifications won't seem to have updated and then it closes itself instantly. As for my start menu, I have rearranged and tried to pin new shortcuts to it but, every time I restart my PC, the layout reverts back to before I made changes to it and I can't seem to pin anything to the start menu.Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.Cheers.

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Start menu tiles and Notification/Open Action Centre dissappeared!


Strange, my start menu left click that used to open the coloured start menu with 'tiles' has stopped working. I can only right click to access the 'grey' listing. If I do left click I see the blue spinning wheel for a couple of seconds but nothing appears.
Also the icon for 'New Notifications' has stopped as well, when clicked I used to see a slide out popup asking me if I would recommend W10 to a friend but not now. If I right click to 'Open Action Centre' nothing happens.

Any suggestions as to how to fix them?

Many thanks.

 

Start Menu Layout will not save the changes

Its still not saving the Start Layout Menu.
I unpinned all the apps from the Layout, and after a next reboot all the default apps are re-pinned...

This is nonsense.

Maybe the issue is that I have two accounts?
One Admin and one being my Standard account?

What if I unpin the apps from my Admin account?

This still does not make sense, because each user account can modify the Start Layout menu.

 

Start Menu Layout will not save the changes

I just did a clean installed of Windows 10 (1709) and as I recall, this happened to me a while back as well when the Start Menu Layout will not save the changes. So when I Unpin all the apps from the Start Layout, it will not save the settings even after all the updates and numerous reboots.

When I installed Windows 10, I first created myself a local Admin account to install and setup a few things and then after that, I created myself a local Standard Account. Both accounts have the same issues.
Why is this happening? Like I said, I remember that I had the same issue, and another reinstall fixed the problem. I have not set any policies or anything like that. So when you look at my image, I managed to Unpin all the apps, but after a reboot they all come back...

Update - I had created another User account and under that account, the start menu layout seemed to be saved even after rebooting. And plus, I recreated my Admin account that I had by removing it and creating it again and seems that it is Ok now.

Why is this happening with the Start Menu Layouts sometimes?
Does it tend to get corrupted during setup of Windows 10 or does the user profiles get corrupted?



Please help.