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Tommy_Kuo
Copper Contributor
Oct 01, 2021

Windows 11 Start menu not working

I just updated to Windows 11 today and the Start menu hasn't been successfully opened. I've tried to open it with touchscreen, mouse, physical keyboard and the touch keyboard but none of them worked...
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elhossan
Copper Contributor
Oct 10, 2021
I had the same issue with my laptop Asus Zenbook Flip 13 OLED (UX363, 11th Gen Intel), i spend 2 hours with Microsoft customer support and they didn't figure it out,
finally read something about display driver, so this is what I did.
I download the latest Graphics driver from Asus website, restarted the computer.
then i removed the display driver from Device manager, the start menu works, after that i updated the display driver and start menu is working perfectly.
I hope this helps
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    Sergio Hernandez
    Brass Contributor
    Oct 10, 2021

    Tried that in my desktop with an NVidia card, also disabling I5's intel ga. but didn't work.  

    The strangest thing it's not that the start menu is not showing, but that the start button and the rest of the bar's buttons are left aligned and the option to align center disappeared from toolbar customization. It's like the win10 toolbar but with start menu not working. really  weird

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    Joos_Assendelft
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 10, 2021

    elhossan 
    Tryed multiple solutions, found on the internet.
    Simply de-installing the videodriver (intel iris) indeed did the trick.
    after re-installing the menu the menu still keeps working.
    Thanks!

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    Kim-99
    Brass Contributor
    Oct 10, 2021

    elhossan This is not good at all . Totally unproductive. In fact I cancelled the surface pro 8 order, went back to windows 10 and decided not to waste money on the new stuff as it’s not worth after this upgrade. I don’t know what windows 11 programmers were thinking have excluded this  feature. 
    For professionals sometime we have multiple emails, worksheets open and it’s really time wasting switching between open items if grouped together.

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