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| Thread ID: 142125 | 2016-05-01 01:19:00 | Windows 10 fails again | phatman (1352) | Press F1 |
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| 1419876 | 2016-05-01 01:19:00 | I have had Windows 10 installed for several months (not a happy install) and it has run fairly well. However the Windows button on the bottom left corner no longer works which makes it awkward to open apps etc. Now the search bar and the notification window have stopped working. Does anyone have any ideas. Thanks, John | phatman (1352) | ||
| 1419877 | 2016-05-01 03:32:00 | Press Windows Key+S and type "cmd" no quotes and ENTER In the command prompt type "sfc /scannow" press ENTER and let it scan for corrupt/missing files. Reboot and problems should be gone - hopefully. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1419878 | 2016-05-01 03:50:00 | Press Windows Key+S and type "cmd" no quotes and ENTER Windows key not working, Joe :-) |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1419879 | 2016-05-01 04:03:00 | Ooooops. My bad :devil 1 - Press CTRL+ ALT + DEL and choose Task Manager. 2. > File > Run New Task 3. Type "Powershell" no quotes, Pick box: WITH ADMIN PRIVELEDGES 4. Type "sfc /scannow" no quotes 5. After scannow finishes, type "DISM Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth" > Enter. See how that works. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1419880 | 2016-05-01 04:13:00 | While you're still in POWERSHELL, type "Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Foreach{Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode /Register"$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} The quotes count here (^) and need to be entered just as they stand. If reinstalling the Windows app doesn't work, you'll need to create a new user account. Let me know and I'll help you. Your account MIGHT be corrupted. If all that doesn't work, Refresh your PC. It will preserve your documents, but, not your programs which you'll need to re-install. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1419881 | 2016-05-01 04:20:00 | You can right click the start button and get to the CMD prompt easily from there by the way. Also lets you chose to shut down or restart, run the control panel, and a bunch of other useful stuff. I have had this issue a few times, usually just restarting fixes it for me. One time I had to do the things Joe suggests though, found them here home.bt.com Sometimes using task manager and forcing a restart of explorer can help too. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1419882 | 2016-05-01 04:27:00 | A comment: Resources: Technet MSDN answers . microsoft Microsoft Forums Microsoft Answer Tech (free, usually) The horses mouth . . . HTH |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1419883 | 2016-05-01 05:03:00 | While you're still in POWERSHELL, type "Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Foreach{Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode /Register"$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} Often depending on what the problem was caused by all the commands in the world don't work. That command will also break some apps even if the start menu does work again. A VERY high percentage of the problems happen with computers that have been upgraded from a previous OS. Only once seen it happen on a fresh install. I do on average 2-4 per week on customers computers. Sometimes you may get lucky, but the majority of times even if the commands do work , the problem WILL reappear again anything from the next day on-wards or after a short period of time. Making a new user account only delays the problem. See this type of problem hundreds of times, a refresh is a joke. Being on the insider program, its often a common complaint, and see more customers computers do the same thing, with no real working fix, the only real fix is save all your data, wipe the drive clean install W10 from fresh and reinstall programs / data. There are quite a few things that can be done,but most fail, it can be caused by corruption, some program that's installed --- the list goes on. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1419884 | 2016-05-01 05:57:00 | I was just thinking that a total burn down is maybe the last, most troublesome thing to do when MAYBE just trying Powershell first and then if that failed, ratchet up the response and burn it down like wainuitech mentioned. Like me old Jewish neighbor usta say: "Couldn't hurt!" |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1419885 | 2016-05-01 08:29:00 | Ooooops . My bad :devil 1 - Press CTRL+ ALT + DEL and choose Task Manager . 2 . > File > Run New Task 3 . Type "Powershell" no quotes, Pick box: WITH ADMIN PRIVELEDGES 4 . Type "sfc /scannow" no quotes 5 . After scannow finishes, type "DISM Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth" > Enter . See how that works . Tried as above with following response; Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2015 Microsoft Corporation . All rights reserved . PS C:\WINDOWS\system32 > sfc /scannow Beginning system scan . This process will take some time . Beginning verification phase of system scan . Verification 100% complete . Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them . Details are included in the CBS . Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS . log . For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS . log . Note that logging is currently not supported in offline servicing scenarios . PS C:\WINDOWS\system32 > DISM Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth Error: 87 DISM doesn't recognize the command-line option "Online" . For more information, refer to the help by running DISM . exe /? . The DISM log file can be found at C:\WINDOWS\Logs\DISM\dism . log PS C:\WINDOWS\system32 > Tried using the Windows button but no change This system used to run Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and the "upgrade" took over 7 hours and resulted in a very buggy unusable system . I took it to a repair shop who supposedly did a clean install which has worked Ok till now . By the way the install removed over 110 "apps including Office and Outlook, costing me all my email contacts etc . |
phatman (1352) | ||
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