Windows 10: Start menu Personalization Disabled

Had to try a few different methods to get the start menu not working problem to go away. Finally I had to go back to a restore point from just after the upgrade from Windows 7 to get the start menu to work again.

Now I try to turn back on the folders in Personalization > Start > Choose which folders appear on Start and the only one that is able to be toggled off and on is the Settings one. I want to turn most of them back on, but they are all locked to off.
I hope you can see what I mean if my words do not make sense in the attached screen capture.
I have spent the last 2 nights trying to google this various ways with no luck to find registry entries or anything else to try to fix this.





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Start menu personalization feature disabled

Hi Sudheendra,

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, running SFC scan didn't work.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

 

Start menu personalization feature disabled

I'm having an issue with personalization of the Start Menu, which arose after I ran a fix for the Start Menu disappearing entirely:

I don't have jump lists in my Start Menu, and I'd like to enable those. So when I go to the "Personalization" window inside the "Settings" menu and select "Start", then click "Choose which folders appear on Start", the list of options to include in my Start
menu has only "Settings" enabled. I can't get to any of the other options, and I can't find the registry key fix this. Any idea how to fix this? Screen capture below. Thanks!

 

This probably has nothing to do with your problem, but...

Is your Win10 install activated?

 

Settings> Update & Security > Activation says it is

 

Good.

Unfortunately, that means I'm clueless.

 

If go to Personalization in the settings and go to the Lock Screen settings, can change the picture? My only guess is that when activated Windows, it forgot to change a setting granting access to personalization features. ( can't change personalization settings if Windows is not activated)

 

finally, someone with the same issue as mine!!!!!!, apparently i've been researching about this issues for about 3days already...
it turns out it is from the Upgrade Migration issue, WIN7 -> WIN10 or WIN8.1-> WIN10

the useraccount data take a lot garbage and cache data from the prev OS...

[WORKAROUND]
go to Settings -> Family & Other Users -> Add Someone else to this PC
then sign out, and try the new account, all the start menu settings for custom are now properly displayed
(optional) you can delete your old account but dont forget to transfer to files(Docs, Vids, Pics and etc)

...^_^


P.S.
right now i still looking for the files that disables it, so we dont need to create or re-create an account

 

Yea I can and have changed the lock screen picture.

 

This is going to be an extremely last ditch try for me, I have made a new account and all works there. Tried that to try to compare what was different and couldn't find anything that stood out but the registry is so convoluted probably easily missed. The reason this is last ditch effort for me to do that because I have about 150 installed graphics design libraries that some of my software uses the my documents folders as storage for. I think this is because of windows security settings and saving such things in the Programs directory tree

 

same goes for me dude, ryt not, i still havnt delete my old account because of the all the securiy permission i needed...

let just hope microsoft has a FIX for that, since im sure we are not the only ones who'll get this bug.


.., and BTW, a clean install is the best way for it to get Windows 10 110% performance...on my GF laptop, no problem on anything after a the 1st batch of updates

 

My problems did not start until the second or third batch of updates

 

I have same problem and unfortunately did not search for this thread and started a new one. Microsoft has to have a fix for this if so many of us are having this issue. Thanks

 

I just subscribed to your thread in case an answer gets put there being the newer thread.

Besides this and some Firefox issues which I think is just a problem with Firefox as I had them before the upgrade I am liking 10

 

Well right now I am a little annoyed. There are a lot of problems so far. I know it is a new O/S and its to be expected but Microsoft seems slow with acknowledging the problems.