Windows 10: Windows 10 Taskbar Issue

So the last two days I've been unable to use a few of the features of my Taskbar. Thr start menu, cortana, the volume, internet and clock buttons are all unresponsive. I get an error sound when my computer logs in or a few seconds after trying the start button.
I have tried using Powershell commands and reinstalling windows features that I've seen posted on here before. Not sure what else to do.
Cheers.

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Windows 10: Issues with deleting a particular system file and Administrator Problems.

Original Title: Administrator Problems

The issue is quite simple. Ever since migrating to Windows 10, I've been unable to administrate, though I'm supposedly an administrator with "full control." A current example: I've picked up a trojan file in a c:\windows subdirectory. having full control
of the c:\ directory, I should be able to simply delete the bad file. However, I can't do that because I get the following message:

"You require permission from the computer's administrator to make changes to this file." I've tried all the suggestions here and none of them work. This has been an ongoing issue with this OS since I installed it a year ago. Until now, I haven't needed
to "administrate" over this directory, and thought that Microsoft would eventually get around to fixing the problem, especially since there have been so many complaints about it. Apparently, Microsoft can't handle it. BTW, Windows 10 sucks. It's apparently
not built for end users who want to accomplish real work on the computers THEY OWN. Instead it's built for vendors who want to know who you are, where you are and what you're doing, so that they can tailor advertising to you.

 

Won't read SD CARD windows 10

Below is the result of following your Step 1. So my issue of Windows 10 not reading the SD is still not resolved. How come the required driver to allow Windows 10 to read the SD in my computer was not installed during the fix?

"There is a problem with the driver for USB-IF xHCI USB Host Controller. The driver needs to be reinstalled."

 

Hi, if you've tried various fixes and re-registering apps etc, and you don't have useful system restore points or disk images - we strongly and repeatedly commend disk imaging to people so they can recover their PC to a previous working state without technical help- then your remaining option is an in-place upgrade repair install.

Precede it with this in case sthg has happened to your file system:

From an admin command prompt
[Windows key + X, click command prompt (admin)]
chkdsk C: /F
Your PC will need to restart.
Make sure the result is clear or fixed- else do not proceed.
Post back the result, which you can get after a restart as follows:
How do I see the results of a CHKDSK that ran on boot? - Ask Leo!

An In-place upgrade repair install will fix many things, but not those where the settings are not changed by the procedure.

For this you need an installation medium with the same base build as you have installed, and x64 if you have a 64 bits OS, else x86 (32 bits).

Recommendation:
Before you perform the following major repair procedure, do create a disk image (see below).

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade - Windows 10 Forums
- this includes a link from which you can obtain Windows 10 iso file (" download a Windows 10 ISO"), or create a bootable medium.

I would recommend creating the bootable medium, as this can be used
- for any future in-place upgrade repair install
- to boot from and use its recovery options should Windows become unbootable.
- to clean install Windows

This will refresh Windows, after the manner of a Windows installation.
- all/most associations will be unchanged
- all your programs will be left installed
- no personal data should be affected
- you will lose any custom fonts
- you will lose any customised system icons
- you may need to re-establish your Wi-Fi connection
- you will need to redo Windows updates subsequent to the build you have used for the repair install
- Windows.old will be created
- system restore will be turned off- you should turn it on again and I recommend you manually schedule a daily restore point.
- you will need to redo any language downloads including the display language if you changed that)
- inactive title bar colouring (if used) will be reset to default
- if Qttabbar is installed, you need to re-enable it in explorer (Options, check Qttabbar)
This is one of the better features of Win10: as each major build comes out, that's your updated reference build, and as updates are mostly cumulative, there will be few to do.


Please consider using disk imaging regularly. It's a brilliant way to
- preserve your system (and your sanity)
- back up your data
- restore your system to a previously working state in a relatively short time

Recommended: Macrium Reflect (free/commercial) + boot disk/device + large enough external storage medium.

 

Sorry for the delayed response, had finals this week. Did the disk check, here are the results:




Code: Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. A disk check has been scheduled. Windows will now check the disk. Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ... 382720 file records processed. File verification completed. 19331 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ... 491744 index entries processed. Index verification completed. 0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found. Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ... Cleaning up 2847 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9. Cleaning up 2847 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9. Cleaning up 2847 unused security descriptors. Security descriptor verification completed. 54513 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal... 38276056 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed. CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap. Windows has made corrections to the file system. No further action is required. 487461887 KB total disk space. 422530736 KB in 225814 files. 165368 KB in 54514 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 508887 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 64256896 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 121865471 total allocation units on disk. 16064224 allocation units available on disk. Internal Info: 00 d7 05 00 a1 45 04 00 21 fd 07 00 00 00 00 00 .....E..!....... d1 06 00 00 64 8e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....d........... Windows has finished checking your disk. Please wait while your computer restarts.[/quote] Not much there from what I can understand. The event viewer shows lots of errors, which explains the dozens of error sounds I hear upon start up.

I'm downloading the ISO now, thanks so much for the help. I will try setting up a daily system restore point; I had one before the upgrade to Windows 10, I just never set it up again z.z