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No taskbar and screen flickering to black on build 22581
I have my taskbar back but I'm still unable to use some icons and use the minimise resize and close buttons on tabs and some desktop icons. GPU usage is really high but at least it's usable. I notice it comes from the file Explorer in task manager but doesn't affect games.
What I did was reverted to the very last save before the corrupted update,
I did as follows
1. Control alt delete
2. Hold in shift and press restart PC
be careful after this stage! Much potential to mess up PC but my PC was doing some things before so
3. Play around until you find something along the lines of uninstall updates, it has a cog as the icon
4. Then uninstall the updates starting with the top one then down.
My PC is in at least usable state for games again. Make sure you don't do anything to wipe your whole PC. worked for me
I just ran into this issue with a new Win11 pro HP mini. It upgraded Windows during the setup process and I configured and install a bunch of stuff afterwards and it seemed to work fine under the initial local admin account. Once I created a new local admin account I experienced the flickering privacy setup upon login, then after getting past that the 'no start menu / taskbar' issue appeared.
I tried everything and was just about to RESET the OS when I noticed the 'fix problems using Windows update' option. That allowed me to perform a repair install of 23H2 thru windows update. After that, I made sure to update any available windows updates after a restart. After another restart, I created my second local admin account and the issue is gone!
This did NOT impact the apps I have installed so I am ecstatic! hope this helps. cheers,
