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Critical Error - Your Start menu isn't working.
I've been using Windows 10 for several weeks with no issues until
today when I started getting a dialog box with the message "Critical Error - Your Start menu isn't working. We'' ll try to fix it the next time you sign in". There is also a "Sign out now" button. This happens as soon as I click the Start menu button. I've signed out and in several times and tried a hard boot, all with no luck. An interesting note is that another account on my PC has no issues (yet) with the Start menu. Any suggestions? Thanks. |
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Critical Error - Your Start menu isn't working.
wrote in message ... I've been using Windows 10 for several weeks with no issues until today when I started getting a dialog box with the message "Critical Error - Your Start menu isn't working. We'' ll try to fix it the next time you sign in". There is also a "Sign out now" button. This happens as soon as I click the Start menu button. I've signed out and in several times and tried a hard boot, all with no luck. An interesting note is that another account on my PC has no issues (yet) with the Start menu. Any suggestions? Thanks. A quick Google brings this up: http://www.kapilarya.com/fix-your-start-menu-isnt-working-windows-10 Sounds like loads of fun (similar to Win7 and Win8). -- SC Tom |
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Critical Error - Your Start menu isn't working.
SC Tom wrote:
wrote in message ... I've been using Windows 10 for several weeks with no issues until today when I started getting a dialog box with the message "Critical Error - Your Start menu isn't working. We'' ll try to fix it the next time you sign in". There is also a "Sign out now" button. This happens as soon as I click the Start menu button. I've signed out and in several times and tried a hard boot, all with no luck. An interesting note is that another account on my PC has no issues (yet) with the Start menu. Any suggestions? Thanks. A quick Google brings this up: http://www.kapilarya.com/fix-your-start-menu-isnt-working-windows-10 Sounds like loads of fun (similar to Win7 and Win8). Initially my theory was "well, maybe it's a service that isn't starting". But the more I look at the symptoms, it's almost like the Start Menu is an App or something. It appears to be a pretty brittle design, if people claim that both Avast and Dropbox have some effect. http://www.tenforums.com/general-dis...ll-try-fi.html Since the problem is "account sensitive", accounts may also be keeping App-specific information. As Services should be owned by the machine, and not by the user as such. And when my search engine finds threads labeled with "Solved", there is hardly a solution in the thread. Just a lot of suggested fixes with no guarantees at all. Apparently "Solved" doesn't mean what it used to mean. Paul |
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Critical Error - Your Start menu isn't working.
In message , Paul writes
But the more I look at the symptoms, it's almost like the Start Menu is an App or something. I seem to remember that on the Insider forums, something like this change to the start menu as an app was announced at a certain build. I have to admit that I've almost lost interest in Windows 10, and am just trying to keep across it to be able to look a bit less stupid when asked questions by users. -- Bill |
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Critical Error - Your Start menu isn't working.
On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 18:50:35 -0500, Paul wrote:
SC Tom wrote: wrote in message ... I've been using Windows 10 for several weeks with no issues until today when I started getting a dialog box with the message "Critical Error - Your Start menu isn't working. We'' ll try to fix it the next time you sign in". There is also a "Sign out now" button. This happens as soon as I click the Start menu button. I've signed out and in several times and tried a hard boot, all with no luck. An interesting note is that another account on my PC has no issues (yet) with the Start menu. Any suggestions? Thanks. A quick Google brings this up: http://www.kapilarya.com/fix-your-start-menu-isnt-working-windows-10 Sounds like loads of fun (similar to Win7 and Win8). Initially my theory was "well, maybe it's a service that isn't starting". But the more I look at the symptoms, it's almost like the Start Menu is an App or something. It appears to be a pretty brittle design, if people claim that both Avast and Dropbox have some effect. http://www.tenforums.com/general-dis...ll-try-fi.html Since the problem is "account sensitive", accounts may also be keeping App-specific information. As Services should be owned by the machine, and not by the user as such. And when my search engine finds threads labeled with "Solved", there is hardly a solution in the thread. Just a lot of suggested fixes with no guarantees at all. Apparently "Solved" doesn't mean what it used to mean. Paul A number of posts and other articles suggested that DropBox might be the culprit. I uninstalled DropBox, then logged out and back in and the Start menu is back. I've reinstalled DropBox and no issues so far. We'll see what happens... Thanks for your help Mitch S. |
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