Windows 10: Start Menu problem - fixed.

I've just found a solution to a problem I had with the start menu in 10130 and thought I'd post it here in case others are having the same problem.
This morning there was nothing I could do to open the start menu - tried everything.
Then I remembered that last night I turned off some options in Personalisation - Start.
Things like 'Occasionally Show App content' - 'Display recently opened programs' etc.
Anyway, I wondered if that could have affected anything so I went back and turned those back on - closed settings and then hit start menu and it opened first time! Must be a bug. Hope this helps anyone with the same problem.

:)

 

fix start menu

this is the error I get when running troubleshooter

 

fix start menu

the computer is a hp pavilion g6 2102au the build is 15063 windows 10 creators update and sync is turned on

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

*Ditto

 

How did you get the Settings screen opened?

EDIT
Win + I did the trick and thanks for the Start Menu fix.

 

Glad it helped. I had settings pinned to the taskbar.

 

I think Settings is also in one of the Ribbons in File Explorer.

 

The Notification and Action Center is another place you can launch All Settings.

 

Can you tell me how to do this.

 

Use one of the methods described above to launch Settings.
Open Personalization
Open Start
toggle the top 3 switches on or off - then try to open Start
If you still cannot open start, throw the switches the other way (if it was on ... turn it off, if it was off ... turn it on)

It might take more than one attempt ... and the "can't open start" might happen again.

 

An easier way I found, even more puzzling, was to stop the search in the task manager and reboot. No more start menu problems thereafter.

 

. . .not just more puzzling, albeit totally. . .*Confused