Windows 10: Start button not working, certain applications need to be reinstalled, cannot windows+tab,...

I suddenly encountered a plethora of problems, none of which I know how to fix. Please help me


Problems:

• Task bar buttons do not work. (i.e clicking on time, volume or wifi)
• Windows buttons do not work.( Windows key, windows + tab, discovery)
• Settings does not work. (Cannot open settings either through run, no other way to open it)
• Cortana does not work
• I needed to reinstall drivers for my graphics card, even though they were already installed, Discord stopped working, and does not let me reinstall it.

Things I've tried so far:

>Scanning and repairing the drive (it worked, now it says there are no errors)

> Trying to open powershell and reinstalling all microsoft apps (powershell opens for half a second and closes)

> Defragmenting drives


My ideas:


I have two drives, a 250gb ssd which I bought this year and an old 2TB mechanical hardrive. They are both listed as one drive through a caching application called AMD StoreMI. I believe that the problem might lie within the older drive, but I have yet to find any corrupted files.

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Start Menu, Start Bar, Notifications and Alt+Tab not working

Hi all,

I have had this problem for several weeks now. I think it may have been introduced during an Update in December.

The symptoms of the issue include:

• Start menu is broken
  • Button can be hovered over (animation), but cannot be clicked or right clicked.
• Windows Explorer is very slow to open
• Alt + Tab does not work
• Certain applications break
  • Including Slack, Discord and Steam. Maybe others too but these ones just will not open or are totally frozen on whatever "Frame" they have last rendered.
• The notifications panel (bottom right next to the clock) will not open
• The calendar will not open
• Any settings menu that follows the Windows 10 theme will not open
  • Example "Settings" opens but sits on the blue window with the cog in the middle, never loading fully.

To try and resolve this I have taken many steps.

Steps taken:

• Opening the command line and typing sfc /scannow
• Creating a new Windows user copying all of my files across, deleting the old user and signing into the new user with my microsoft account.
  • As executed by Support Agent 1.
• Repaired windows downloading the Windows 10 iso as executed by Support agents 2 and 3.
• Ensured Windows 10 is up-to-date with the latest version.
• Ensured all other drivers are up to date.

The issue is still persisting and at this point it's looking like I may have to format the drive and reinstall everything - not something I want to do as my internet if fairly slow for downloading all my programs, and I also use this PC for work so would
rather not have to potentially take time out of my work schedule.

Does anyone have any suggestions that might fix this, or will Windows be patching this issue?

Thanks

 

Start Button Not Working?


What steps should be taken to diagnose a Windows 10 start button not working?

 

Start Button displaying but not working


The start button was working until there was a forced reboot (power failure). Then left click (normal click) over the start button does absolutely nothing. Right click brings up a menu but "programs" and also "settings" are missing and not included on this list. Search or Task View buttons do not work either with "normal" click. Does anyone have any suggestion or fixes?
Thank you in advance *Huh
Sue