Windows 10: The windows 11 taskbar & start menu have disappeared from my Surface Pro 8

Also the windows button on the keyboard doesn't work. I am also using office 365. I can't access settings either.

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Windows 10 Start Menu and taskbar not working - Surface Pro 4


Hi guys,

I just got a Surface Pro 4. I was having no issues, until out of the blue, the taskbar and start menu on it stopped working, and now it's an empty, glitched taskbar



I tried to restart the explorer process (which made it worse), restart the machine several times, and nothing has worked.

Quite confused, and not sure what to do.

Any help is appreciated

 

Taskbar Disappears on Surface Pro

Hello,

I have been having a problem on my surface pro when the keyboard is detached. I click on the keyboard icon to pop up my on screen keypad, and nothing comes up. After a few more presses, my taskbar at the bottom of the screen goes black, and I lose all control
over taskbar functions including windows start menu. Any programs that I minimize will no longer be able to be retrieved, and the only way to regain function to my laptop is to ctrl alt del, and either sign out, or restart. Cannot find this issue addressed
anywhere.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro Gets Priced

With all due respect, I think you intended to say:

However I can only guess you didn’t understand my post because I was only suggesting that people who take the time to read and post in tech forums will likely be able to tell the difference and that general consumers probably wouldn’t.

Microsoft may have released full specs on the Surface Pro but I don’t recall seeing a full spec sheet. For example, “Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge CPU” doesn’t specify a model and CPU model would be a factor in overall price. This wouldn’t matter if there is only one Core i5 Ivy Bridge mobile CPU though (i5-3360M, i5-3320M, i5-3427U).

Furthermore your suggesting that OEM’s will release Windows 8 Pro tablets and laptops and undercut the pricing suggests that you are unaware that OEM’s have already released products. For what its worth there is a range (Atom, i3, i5 and for laptops i7) but the pricing is similar to Microsoft’s offering in the Surface Pro for similar OEM hardware in the same form-factor. An example of this is Acer Iconia Tab W700 series, Acer Iconia Tab W500 series, Samsung ATIV SmartPC Pro XE500xx, Samsung ATIV SmartPC Pro XE700xx,….

As I stated before though, when you shrink the product you often pay more money with respect to processing power. So comparing a general 17”, 15” or 13” laptop to a sub 11” screen PC touch tablet isn’t the same thing.