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I need a WIN 10 start button permanent fix

May 10, 2016 8:23AM PDT

I'm running win10 which was upgraded from win 7, 64bit. The win 10 start button is broken. Left click does nothing at all, and right click brings up menu, but clicking on the menu items does nothing. This is a widespread problem, and solutions are offered in abundance. I have found that going to powershell and inputting this command Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} will fix the problem for a short period of time only.
I can't understand why Microsoft has not introduced a patch to fix this problem permanently. Perhaps someone reading this can offer a permanent solution. Or maybe explain why this is happening. Thanks for your help, Rob

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Here, never seen that issue.
May 10, 2016 8:46AM PDT

I'm sure it's on the web but here, across dozens of PCs at the office never happens.

Our bet is that it's our upgrade process. We uninstall the antivirus suite and if we find it any CD/DVD emulators. Now there is some issue with Torrents and infected PCs but we only see that outside the office.

TRY THIS. Create a new user account and see if the problem extends to the new user.

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That worked.
May 10, 2016 10:42AM PDT

Thank you. Rob Imhoff

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If the new user is fine and the old is not.
May 10, 2016 11:24AM PDT

You either dig into what's different between users (plenty of tools for that) or migrate to the new user account.

Microsoft has a long standing issue about "corrupt profiles." In fact let's read Microsoft's "Fix" for a corrupt profile.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/fix-corrupted-user-profile#1TC=windows-7

Yes there are versions for XP, Vista, 10 etc but all "fixes" involve moving to a new account. Since this issue has been around for close to 2 decades I have little hope of a Microsoft fix.

So back to these accounts. Try a boot in Safe Mode and if the broken account works you can explain MSCONFIG ( http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/how-to-open-msconfig-in-windows-10 ) and disable as much as you can and try again. If that works, enable things you know are OK and retest until you find Waldo.

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Classic Shell
May 10, 2016 9:17AM PDT

or Classic Start ?