Windows 10: Right click start button - some links do not work

I've recently seen a couple of win 10 systems that needed chkdsk run on them to re-do an index file. Don't yet know whether it is caused by the upgrade but I am now going to make sure I run chkdsk on all systems I meet in the future.

The last one had problems running a few things, one of which was printing.

The odds are that this won't fix your problem, but, hey, it doesn't take long and it is a good thing to run periodically, anyway.

 

sailor44- the reports I've read indicate an incompatibility between sthg installed and Windows 10. The BIOS is the wrong area.
Please see this:
Winkey + X menu shortcuts not working in Win 8.1
"I'm left with one weird problem though. When I press Winkey + X to bring up the "Start" menu that has Control Panel, Command Prompt, Device Manager, etc., hardly any of the options on this menu actually work."
"I just managed to resolve this. For the benefit of anyone else who encounters this issue in the future, it seems it's caused by one or more desktop applications that install [Win 8 incompatible] shell extensions into the Windows right-click context menu.

I downloaded and ran ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows from Nir Sofer's brilliant site. This util lists every shell extension and allows you to quickly disable them, so I just disabled each non-Microsoft one in turn (you must then restart Windows Explorer), until I found the culprit.

With offending shell extension disabled ( RWipe & Clean v8.0 in my case), every option on the 8.1 Power Users (Win + X) menu now works

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All praise the redoubtable Nirsoft! *Smile

 

Yes indeed! I had earlier downloaded this program but were unsure as to exactly how use it. So, I just disabled all non misrosoft shell extensions, and that fixed it. I will leave them all disabled until I come cross a missing feature on one of the programs and then enable it, and so on, till I find the offending program. *092

 

That fixed it! my problem was this application..

Official QuickSFV Home Page

 

I know it's been a well since someone posted to this, but I installed Windows 10 Pro full retail on my desktop. Then the Ann. Update would not install at all last year, just like for many people. Over a month ago, in early Jan. 2017, update version 10.0.14393 tried to install, and this time it did work. But most of the links in Start-Right-Click Menu would not work. but if I search for them in Cortana the Cortana links would work for me, so the system programs would function, just not the Right-Click menu links.

I recently took time to try all kinds of recommended fix-it things, SFC, PowerShell commands, other tips from MicroSoft including their menu fix-it that found no errors. Then I read this post above for Nirsoft ShellExView! THANK YOU, THANK YOU! It's just what I needed to solve the problem! For starters, I only went and disabled halfway down the list, all the non-Microsoft shell extensions. And you don't have to do one at a time either in this app, you can highlight several then disable them. Directions above said to close and reopen file explorer, the quickest way is click the start/window then your user Icon and just "Sign-Out", then click the screen so your User shows and sign-back in. Wait a minute and then try the Right-Click on the Windows Menu, and I found all my menu options were back! So, already I knew, something I disabled in the first half was the problem. So, I reopened ShellExView and enabled a section of 10-12 at a time. Then closed the program, and Sign-Out my user, Sign-In again, wait a minute and try my Right-Click menu again. First view times my menu was still working. Then the next section I did that with, my menu did not work again. So, I re-disabled that section, and continued on the rest of the sections that I had still disabled. Which narrowed that down to 10 items in that one section. I started with enabling half of those, with each time Sign-Out then Sign-in, wait a minute and try my Right-Click menu again. And I with more tries, I narrowed down my problem to "Express Zip File Compression". I wonder if this was causing a problem because I am a WinZip user? But, I left that disabled and now my Windows Right-Click menu links are working again. I hope this helps someone else like it helped me. Again Thanks for the tip! I was just what I needed!!