Windows 10: Start Menu, Task Manager, Programs wont launch

Hey all - After about 15-20 minutes of use my computer starts acting strangely. The Start Menu, Task Manager, and Programs wont launch, nothing works. If I have something open (Game/Browser/Whatever) whatever is open continues to function just fine. The computer wont restart or shutdown after I click it to do so. I have run Avast and Walwarebytes with a clean bill of health and SFC /scannow which said it fixed an issue. Unfortunately upon restarting the problem still presists. I have run SFC /scannow again which returns no issues. I have also run DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth and no help. I thought maybe a drive was going bad but those all came back clean using the windows 10 build in error check. I'm running Win 10 64bit with Intel i7-2700k and 16 GN of RAM.

I'm at a loss of what to try next. Any help is appreciated.

Thank you.

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Start menu and Cortana aren’t working?

One thing to keep in mind is that you can still start tasks (programs) by launching the task manager by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL, click Task Manager, then click File, Run new task.

This works in spite of the modal message and inability to interact with the start menu.

 

the right click context menu in the start button does not work after upgrade to version 1511

the right click context menu in the start button does not work after upgrade to version 1511

hi Guys as the question states my context menu that appears when you right click the start menu does not work.

what I mean is that it shows up but when you select any options like device manager, command prompt, disk management almost all of them wont work except for run.

I can launch these programs via other means but they just wont launch through this context menu.

 

Hello mate have you tried a chkdsk?? Drive Error Checking in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums I prefer Option 3 with the command prompt and I usually run the /f switch too.

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ICIT2LOL - I tired that and everything came back fine. I did however, decide to leave the task manager open at all times so I could see if there was something amiss when the behavior took place. Turns out, every time this happened, as windows store game (alto's adventure) would randomly start running. I kill that task and, boom, everything back to normal. I know now the issue. Thank you for the help!

 

Well done mate that was a good example of lateral thinking*Cool

 

Hmm. I have had what sounds like the same problem. Windows will eventually unlock in 15-30 minutes (if I can stand to wait), and programs I had tried to start will suddenly start. I had been running with Process Explorer but never saw anything unusual. I'll try task manager.

 

Really sorry late reply mate but do try what the OP did first up ie sfc
SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker - Windows 7 Help Forums
Disk Check - Windows 7 Help Forums< if necessary include the /f and /r in the command line as perOption2
Runthese in safe mode and the sfc often best run for two to three runs


ifno fix then these


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