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Windows 11 Start Button not working
I have upgraded to windows 11 using the insider feature. my task bar is still the old windows 10 one and I cant use the start menu. I have gone back to windows 10 for now. Any fix or fix coming to this issue?
let me know if anyone else is having this issue
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yup, it's still a problem
I am having an issue with the 'start and search' part of the task bar.
Once I have booted the system I can access the 'start square' or 'search' apps etc but having used either once or twice they then become inactive. In effect they are 'greyed out' and if the mouse hovers over them the egg timer just rotates without any progress. I haven't worked out exactly what action makes this happen yet.
The only way to be able to use the start or search again is to sign out and sign back in, reboot the system or possibly by doing something in the Task Manager but I am not sure what yet.
W11 start and search from the task bar- THE BEST WAY TO RESOLVE THIS IS A FRESH INSTALL USING THE OFFICIAL USB INSTALLATION MEDIA CREATOR FROM MICROSOFT`S DOWNLOAD SERVERS AND THEN JUST DIGITALLY ACTIVATE USING YOUR MICROSOFT ACCOUNT.
I DID THIS MONTHS AGO AND NEVER HAD A PROBLEM SINCE.
OF COARSE YOU WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE HASSTLE OFF BACKING UP ALL YOUR STUFF AND RE INSTALLING ALL YOUR APPS.
THE BIGGEST HASSTLE FOR ME WAS I HAD DO DOWNLOAD ALL MY XBOX GAMEPASS GAMES AGAIN EVEN THO THEY WERE INSTALLED ON A DIFFRENT DRIVE BUT I BELIEVE MSOFT ARE LOOKING AT FIXING THIS.
- I too faced this problem after resetting my laptop. It's probably because files in the user account were corrupted during the upgrade/reset.
Create a new user account. Make sure to grant him administrative privileges so you can move your personal files to the new account.
1. Open cmd as an admin: Press Win+R, type cmd, press Ctrl+Shift+Enter
2. Create a user: Run the following command:
net user /add <username> <password>
3. Grant admin role: Run the following command:
net localgroup administrators <username> /add
Now switch to the new account and hopefully it works well. Same hereAccurateIsaiah
Shutting down Avira Antivirus helped (a bit). Someone else said shutting Antivirus worked. I am wondering what Antivirus has to do with the task bar.
- Does the Winkey + X combination works?
- Same problem with my laptop dell inspron 3501 start menu not working first I upgrade widows 11 through insider program that time start menu not working then I leave the insider program after that I roll back to windows 10 after few days iam getting official windows 11 update through updater then I install that update still start menu not working in my laptop especially dell inspron 3501. My friends also updated to windows 11 but my friends start menu is perfectly working what is the problem with my laptop
- I'm still on windows 10..
Asus Vivobook s14
Please let me know if you find a fix
- I just got upgraded to Windows 11 from Windows 10. On taskbar windows, search etc button are not appearing at all. Even file explorer is not working, very disappointed with windows 11
AccurateIsaiah i had to download the iso image and do a fresh clean install of windows 11 to fix the start menu problem the only issue im having now is facebook not loading properly on edge or chrome.
AccurateIsaiah I am also having this issue - I can't interact with the Start button at all, and I also can't perform searches in File Explorer. I was also someone who upgraded to Windows 11 early release and went back to Windows 10 when experiencing issues, and then upgraded to Windows 11 following official launch.
- Been over 2 months and this is still not working lol.. Solid launch Microsoft... just solid.
- Looks like after a few updates -- none of which were tied to the actual OS build but the only one non-driver related was KB890830, and then a boat load of Driver updates fixed it and centered the bar.
- I started having this same issue today. I installed Win11 but had to revert back to Win10 because of a hardware issue. Once that was resolved, I tried to upgrade to Win11 again, but the task bar retained the Win10 appearance, and the start button and search boxes did not work. Tried restarting explorer and several other "fixes" from various articles, but nothing worked.
I tried uninstalling Win11 and reinstalling it again after removing all updates that had installed today, but still no luck.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.- Sa,e issue for me....After upgrading to W11 Dev build, it stopped working. thinking to revert to W10
