Windows 10: Trouble with my right-click START Power user (Context) utility menu

Hi I am not a sophisticated user. I've been searching help videos (sometimes difficult to understand and follow). Trouble happened when I was setting up an external HDD for partition and file backup purposes. Had not done it before and needed to repeat some steps. I also installed WD utilities just to look at what was included and then uninstalled, using Revo. It seems like after that, most of the right-click Start Menu Power (Context?) menu items like Disk Management, Event Viewer in top box quit opening. I suspect this somehow affected some links to these utilities in Power Manager box. I can access them using search or other methods. To rule out Avast, I uninstalled that and enabled Windows Defender, no change. Have run SFC /scannow; some files were repaired but no change with this issue. I have also run Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image / ScanHealth, (also RestoreHealth) with no issues.

More than a week has passed and I've tried many things, but the right click Start Power Context menu apps like Device Mgr, Disk Mgmt, Computer Mgmt, PowerShell, Control Panel don't work. I can still access them via the search window. Since then I thought Win10 2004 might possibly repair it, so I tried that. I've been dealing with some minor bugs in it, but the right click Start menu still is the same. I've been working on other things with it, clearing junk apps, creating a backup system, but from time to time I come back to this.

I just tried the old WinX menu editor and attempted to service the Group 3 list which I guess keeps the links to these utilities, difficult to work it and I had no luck with this. I even tried copying a Group 3 folder with the same default links in it from my other (much newer) HP i7 laptop, it seemed to make no difference. Greg at Microsoft Community tried to help me and I tried re-registering the menu with a refresh instruction in Administrator PowerShell with an instruction from Kapilarya; I probably did it several times, no change. This is the reason for the post: Is there anything left to try?

This PC is an older HP DV-7 i7 8Gb ram 1Tb drive, now about 8 years old. It's my daily driver. I'm not thrilled with 2004 and wish I hadn't fooled with it. But for the most part, I'm about where I was a little over a week ago except for the major update. I've had to do a couple of system restore procedures during the week as I made mistakes and then corrected them. I've postponed 2004 on the other laptop until I gain some confidence with this system and use of resources etc.

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Windows10 start up / context menu crashing issue

Hi,

Since you are having an issue with the Start up menu not working and the context menu crashing, what I can suggest is for you to try and follow the steps provided from the links below:

• Community Ramesh.Kumar's answer March 19, 2016
• Troubleshoot problems opening the Start menu or Cortana

Let us know how it goes.

 

Recycle Bin Context Menu (right click)

Hi,

1. Right-click Start and open Control Panel> Programs> Programs and features. Any programs listed with Chinese (?) names?

2. Download and run ShellExView
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

(no installation necessary)

Does ShellExView tell you which program installed the context menu item?

3. Download and run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (Free download link)
https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/

Don

 

Right-click context menu "Run as Administrator" not working

I have the same problem but mine is limited to right clicking the start menu. I can right click everything else and it works correctly, but if I right click the start menu, it doesn't open the context menu and the cursor shifts just a little diagonally to
the top right. I've tried the suggestions above and the new account works fine and the SFC scan came up with nothing wrong.

Edit- also Winkey + X doesn't bring open the context menu either