Windows 10: 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 *Smile

:)

 

Surface Pro 4 - critical issue following update

Brand new Surface Pro 4 m3. Critical errors following just 4 automatic updates:

KB3116097

KB3081449

KB3074686

KB3074678

Not working:

Start menu, taskbar, search, notification area, settings etc etc

Unable to access windows update or factory reset

Guidance much appreciated!!

 

Windows 10 - File Explorer Keeps Crashing

Hey everyone.

I have a Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10 and lately explorer.ex has been crashing non -stop. Other applications continue working fine, but I can no longer use any of the taskbar, volume (including the physical volume key on the side of the surface) or anything
within the start menu - even the shortcuts (win+e) don't work!

I've restarted explorer which gets it going at first, but it soon crashes shortly after.

Any help is much appreciated!

 

Suggestion only :

Right click at it > click Command Prompt (Admin) > type powershell > press Enter key.
At the flashing prompt, copy and paste this command line ( to avoid typo it's best to apply Copy/paste method)......

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

> press Enter.

 

Adding..............
Have you by any chance created restore points when the Surface was working perfectly ?

If you have, you can do a system restore. Pick a date when the tablet was working fine as your restore point.
System Restore Windows 10

 

I did the Powershell script, and it worked...

It looked like it didn't do anything, but in fact it did when I closed it.

Thanks!

 

Wonderful. You are welcome.
Please have a habit to manually create restore point whenever the system is running fine.
That will save your bacon many times over.

Please mark this thread as Solved.
Thank you.

 

Hello. I just wanted to say thank you for this fix. helped me solved my problem as well. One point to note. I use a non-windows firewall and this script wouldn't work until I enabled windows firewall.

Thanks again!

 

I have a Surface Pro 3 that just started having this issue last night. Will this solution work on a 3 as well? I'm not techie!

 

I do not own a Surface Pro.
But I don't think there is such a big difference between a Pro 3 and a Pro 4 that the method could not be applied to both.

 

You are welcome.

 

Thank you so much!