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by kylesgrama Jan 3, 2016 2:26PM PST

Yesterday windows 10 worked great. This morning the start menu does not work and I have no task bar.I get nothing if I right or left click. As far as I know there was no update involved.At 85 I am not very tech savvy, so if there is a fix, please don't send me to the registry or anything else that is hidden. I had no problems with 10 until today

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by kylesgrama Jan 3, 2016 2:52PM PST

Sounds great. Where is the power button?? On the tower , on the key board??

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It's the button that turns the PC on.

by Dafydd Jan 3, 2016 2:57PM PST

Dafydd.

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by kylesgrama Jan 3, 2016 3:35PM PST

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle !! It worked. That's a new one on me. Thank you very much. I hope it works again, if I lose my start button.
Have a great day.

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Well Granny

by itsdigger Jan 3, 2016 3:40PM PST

Is there anyone there that can help you ?
I would hate for you to do a hard shut down and not be able to start the computer back up again.
There may also be a reset button .
No disrespect intended

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Nevermind

by itsdigger Jan 3, 2016 3:42PM PST

Congrats Granny

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by kylesgrama Jan 3, 2016 3:49PM PST

Thanks for both comments. No offense taken. Glad you cared enough to suggest it. It works great. Windows shuts down and re-boots fine. I do have a lot of help around. 4 of my 8 children live close I just like to do things myself. Your help is greatly appreciated.

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In your face Dig me old mate.

by Dafydd Jan 3, 2016 3:49PM PST

Dafydd.

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(NT) LOL

by itsdigger Jan 3, 2016 3:59PM PST

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I understood your concerns though.

by Dafydd Jan 3, 2016 4:14PM PST

The machine I had it on was a Win 10 upgrade. I think the system went awry and shutting down normally just retained the bad settings, whereas a forced shutdown booted the original settings. Quirk? I don't know, but on this Toshiba which came with Win 10, no such problems.
Dafydd.

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Dafydd · Answer 1 · Jan 3, 2016 2:39PM PST

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What cured it for me.

by Dafydd Jan 3, 2016 2:39PM PST

I had that twice when I first got Win 10. To fix it, I did a "hard shutdown". That is, hold the power button down until the machine shuts off, then reboot.
Dafydd.

orlbuckeye · Answer 2 · Jan 4, 2016 6:14AM PST

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I had the same issue and when I googled

by orlbuckeye Jan 4, 2016 6:14AM PST

it said to goto command prompt and enter the command scan /sfd at the commend prompt. Well I couldn't get to the command prompt because nothing worked. I booted into safe mode and was able to get to the command promt and enter the command and when I rebooted all was fine.

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