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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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- Same issue here, still on the old windows 10 taskbar, start menu doesn't even open, when I use windows key and when I click on it. Hope this gets a fix soon!
- It's a major bug that should be fixed first....
- Same for me on the last two builds, it was working fine on the original release.
- yes.. and still not fixed yet...
I have the same problem except this is with a work laptop that accidentally got the update. Now I can’t perform any work, waiting for helpdesk to re-image another laptop because I can’t even get into settings to perform a recovery. Wipe and reinstall is the only way out for us. Thank Microsoft, we love you so much.
- Yes. Same problem. If I click on the task list button the shell crashes.
Thomas1975 mentions AV - I don't have any besides defender on this machine.
Maybe some other app that connects to explorer.exe in a way that is no longer supported is the culprit.
I did have StartIsBack installed, and had some issues having uninstalled on 11, then rolling back to 10 and it breaking lots of things. Reinstalled SiB, uninstalled it which should in theory get me back to stock.
The only other app I have on startup that somehow might connect to explorer.exe is Paddy Xu's QuickLook.
Waiting on a job to complete then re-attempting an 11 update.- I installed Win 11 but the start menus wasnt working. I rolled back the changes and now windows 10 is completely broken.
Be careful rolling back the changes, now Im trying to reset my pc but I may have lost some files.
Removed Antivirus and Start menu worked again.
Start menu was working until i installed our Antivirus program- I have the same problem. After upgrading to Win 11, still old not working Windows 10 start menu.
- Same issue here. Just upgraded, still old W10 task, start menu not working, search field not working (doing Ctrl+R doesn't change anything), and the Windows key does not focus the search bar anymore.
- I installed the new update via the insider program today... (September 29th 2021)
Safe to say still has some bugs
The taskbar was the new one but start menu wouldn't start (lol the irony) I tried it on an i5 11th gen laptop and it was overheating to a point where I thought it was going to blow..
