Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Windows 10 Taskbar / Cortana / Start Menu do not work after some time after restarting pc


I have Windows 10 and I am encountering a consistent problem with the start menu, taskbar and cortana that prevent clicking on either start menu or cortana, or right clicking on icons in the taskbar.


I seem to have come across many proposed fixes but do not have a successful method found yet to resolve the issue.


One such method found was to run the following via powershell.



Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage
-DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}



Short of reinstalling or constantly resetting my machine to have temporary access to the start menu / cortana / taskbar or downgrading my build, what can I do to get this problem fixed?


Answer



Unfortunately, after uninstalling Avast Antivirus and finally encountering the issue consistently after about 5 minutes from starting up the PC, I decided to take a drastic measure. I abandoned Cortana and the start menu and installed Classic Shell. Now at least I get a start menu that works.


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