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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. By the way, when I tap or click on it (not push the keyboard), it will act like it is opened (the icon will be marked) but I've never seen the pop up. I restarted my laptop, restart the Windows Explorer as well but the issue is still persists.
Everything else works so far so the system works alright.
I'm hoping that some of you have ideas on how to fix this issue or what it could be.
Thanks
Windows specs:
Edition Windows 11 Home
Version 21H2
Installed on 1/10/2021
OS build 22000.194
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22000.194.0
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Just installed update KB5006746 and it has fixed the issue.
The fix was also mentioned in their changelog.
Hope this resolved all of your issues as well.
- Yes!! KB5006746 solved the problem for me as well, thank you!
FWIW I installed update KB5006746 on 10/27 and I am still having this problem when I start windows. Opening task manager and restarting windows explorer will force the taskbar to appear, but I have to do this every time I restart my PC.
- I'm able to temporarily fix the problem by restarting explorer by going to Task Manager (CTRL+Shift+Escape), right clicking on Windows Explorer and restarting it.
If Windows Explorer isn't in the process list, goto File -> Run New Task, enter "explorer", then restart it after. Either way, the start menu seems to reboot as well when you restart explorer.yayorbitgum
Update to my original post, like some others here, update KB5006746 seems to have fixed the problem for me. The Start Menu now loads properly during fullscreen apps when I hit the windows key, and won't break during fullscreen apps running nor when I close them shortly after (and some other weird bugs with multiple monitors).
Thanks for the fix devs!
- Same here Updated on 6st October from windows 10 . start menu is not working
In My case I Had No File in register no start menu register i created one and did a lot of restart and it worked please try https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-fix-windows-11-start-menu-not-working-issue-17-ways/ this link i did a lot of methods from this please refer.
- It Should work
- this can be fixed by creating new account, but i have to move all documents, apps profile, etc to new account. is there any way to fix this issue without creating new account?
Seems like my start menu will not open if I close out of fullscreen applications forcefully, or alt-tab too many times during a fullscreen application. The task bar still works, the start menu button is there, but clicking it opens nothing. Hitting the windows key also does nothing. Updating Nvidia drivers doesn't help. Only way to fix it is to restart every time. Feels like a beta still.
- 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 helpsTried 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
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!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.
I dont know how yet I had an Intel Management Engine Interface Driver and DBUtil Removal https://www.intuizi.com/ idont know why or how yet after update it functioned.
- yeah this was my problem too, after updating "Intel - System - 4/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - 14.28.47.630" my start menu started working again
- i still facing the same issue and the icons on the left not in the middle and also the wifi icon not display anything when i click on it.
- Same error , no start menu, taskbar with left alignment and menu to center taskbar dissapeared! A new account works fine but is a hassle, rolling back to 10 by now
I solved windows 11 start menu problems by using StarDock start menu 11 from https://www.stardock.com/products/start11/works better and Customizable, Microsoft can't come up with anything better than These... they can't fix their problems.
- Thank you. This worked for me to fix problem with start menu not fully expanding.
- Thank Kapil. It works for me.
