Microsoft, please, develop a tool to reinstall the Microsoft Store and Start Menu.

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dejudicibus wrote:

 

So I used the Media Creation Tool to get the latest version of Windows reinstalled from scratch. It was a mess because it gave me only the option to loose all apps and files — I do not know why —  but I did it. From a newly installed Windows 10, I started the whole process again. Now the Microsoft Store was ok, as well as Start and the taskbar’s jump list. The problem seemed to be solved, but of course I had just an empty operating system, no applications.

 

So I reinstalled the same applications than before, very standard, common and famous applications, like Photoshop and Office, that is, the same I had on my old PC, but again, after a couple of restarts, I got the same problem. The Start menu does not work at all, so the Microsoft Store. 

 

Now I use the Open-Shell menu to use the Start button. It is a good workaround but the Store and all the store app cannot be used.

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Hello dejudicibus,

When you reinstalled Windows, you said everything was working fine unless you installed other applications that doesn't comes pre-installed. I highly recommend you to cross check these applications because I suspect some application is breaking your system. 

To identify the problematic application, you can also try clean boot:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

Once you spot the problematic application, you can uninstall it and try installing its newer version (if you had older version).

Let us know if this helps!