Windows 10: Start Menu Closes if User Account Selected

Ok, so I am having a strange problem. In my PC's admin account, when I attempt to switch users by:
Start Menu > (click user account)
The start menu disappears / rolls back down. I cannot switch users this way, but this only affects my admin account. What can I do to make it work like normal?

:)

 

Start menu freezes and becomes unresponsive when attempting to switch accounts

This is the second of my minor annoyances. In Win8.1 if you were on an account and needed to switch to another account, you could do so without having to logout of your current account. All you had to do was click on that users icon and login, then you could
switch back to your original account where you left off. Under Win10, I am experiencing the following:

• Go to the start menu and on the user icon, select a user you want to switch to without logging out of the current account.
• Upon selecting the other user account, the start menu freezes.
• Clicking outside the start menu makes the menu disappear, but the start icon, windows key, and the entire taskbar become completely unresponsive. Most desktop functions seem to work normally otherwise.
• Right-clicking over the windows icon to get the text administrative menu and logging out and in is the only way to resolve the problem.

Again, this is a small annoyance, but it was a nice feature in Win8.1 to be able to log out of one account without having to close down everything in the other account.

Thanks.

 

I have windows 10 and Google Chrome installed. When I am on the Internet my computer freezes up and it does not matter what site I am looking at.

Thank you for bringing this up.

To gain your
Administrator
rights, you need to change the properties of the
Administrator account
using the
Computer Management. To do this, follow these steps:

• 
  Right-click on the
  Start menu
  and select
  Computer Management.
  
• 
  Select
  Local Users and Groups.
  
• 
  Choose
  Users.
  
• 
  Right-click on the
  Administrator
  and select
  Properties.
  
• 
  Under
  General Tab, uncheck
  Account is disabled
  checkbox.
  
• 
  Close the
  Computer Management.
  

Try to access Command Prompt as Administrator to check if you regain the Administrator rights.

Let us know if there's any changes.

Regards.

 

Update: In the course of using the computer today, I restarted, and came back into the admin account referenced above. Now it works, BUT, the start menu doesn't open (and the search bar doesn't either) on the computer' other user account. I had to Win-X to get out of that account.