All MS icons in the Tray and Start button stopped working

I download and installed Dell recovery onto my system. I was having many many problems, such as all USB and Thunderbolt ports stopping. My mouse would stop working and the only way to get it back was ctrl-alt-del and select Task Manager and the mouse would start working again.
Dell recovery installed 19042.xxxx. On restart Dell command update came up and installed about 15 updates for the hardware. I went to WU and it installed about 15 updates for windows. After a restart WU popped back up with several more updates which brought the system up to the Oct. 25 update 19045.6456.
Now all MS icons on the taskbar have stopped working. Start. Calendar, Network, Battery, etc.
Well, I just had to ctrl-alt-del to finish typing this post so apparently the keyboard goes down now.
Got any ideas guys? I ran memtes yesterday and it showed 0 errors. sfc /scannow all DISM commands and Sysnative's Components Scanner show 0 errors. This is not the system in my sig, however it is the same brand and model. The difference is this has an i9 10885H CPU and 32 GB non ECC DDR 4 ram.
Just hoping it's not the MB