Windows 10: Windows 11 upgrade goes wonky, breaks menu and Start.

I updated a computer that had not been updated in probably six weeks yesterday. When I went in this morning, weirdness was abound. This morning, I turn the thing back on and it gets to login, but when I login the Start menu never appears but the desk is populated with icons. Once I hit the windows key, I immediately get a message in an orange box saying something like "The Start menu could not be started. We'll fix that the next time you login." The dialog box has one button on it, which is to restart the computer. I've run sfc /scannow several times, and initially there was a corruption but

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Windows 11 start menu 'suggested list' does not show files.

After deleting a file from the Windows 11 Start Menu "Suggested List", it does not appear in the "Suggested List" even if the file is used again.

Is there any solution other than initialization? I want you to tell me.

 

Windows 11 Upgrade and Apps in Start Menu

Perhaps you are asking something I wondered at first, when I had just installed Windows 11. Where is the list of apps, when you open the start menu??

At first, I used the search tool to find the ones that immediately came to mind, and pin them to the start menu. I thought, not a good design.

Then I saw the little nondescript button, upper right of the start menu, which says something like "View all apps." (Sorry, I'm on a Win10 computer right this minute.) Push that button, and all of your installed programs are listed in alphabetical order, just as they were in Windows 10.

In Windows 10, the complete list was right there, along with the ones pinned to the Start menu. To me, this is one of several examples of "change for the sake of change," in Windows 11, which work against ease of use. Another blatant example is how to find and connect to a WiFi hotspot. Change for the sake of change, not for ease of use.

 

Feature suggestion: Add right-click menu

Suggestion: Please add a Windows 7 Jump-List and/or right-click menu to the GPU-Z icon in the Windows taskbar. Possible menus in it would be "Exit" and "About GPU-Z...".
Maybe also "Switch to tab 1/Switch to tab 2/Switch to videocard 1/Switch to videocard 2" too.
Examples of programs that have such menus are ICQ, Skype, AIM.

NOTE: It seems for a right-click menu, Windows 7 is not needed - it works on WinXP and Vista too.
But even a Windows 7 Jump-list may be good enough.
What do you think?