How to Fix Windows 10 Start Menu Not Opening
When the Windows 10 start menu does not open, restart Explorer, restart your computer to refresh, and run a command prompt to check and repair system files. If you can’t open the start menu, you can reset the start menu to fix it. This page describes how to fix the problem when the Start menu does not open.
What To Do When The Start Menu Won’T Open
If the Start menu does not open, try restarting Explorer, and if it still does not open, restart your computer. If the start menu does not open even after restarting the computer, run the system check and repair command. If repairing the command doesn’t help, you can also initialize the start menu, but this may disable pinning added later.
Restart Explorer
Right-click on an empty spot on the taskbar and select Task Manager from the menu.
If the task manager is in simple view as shown below. Click “Details (D)” at the bottom left to display details.
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- Right-click File Explorer on the Processes screen.
- Click “Restart” in the right-click menu to restart.
* If you restart the explorer, the currently open explorer will be closed automatically.
Check if the start menu opens.
If the start menu still does not open, restart the computer as described in the next section.
restart computer
Since the computer will be restarted, please save any files you are working on first. Since the start menu is not open, use the shortcut key etc. to operate the power supply. Minimize all windows by pressing the “Windows mark” and “D” on the keyboard.
If you press “Alt” and “F4” on the keyboard with no windows open, the shutdown screen will appear.
Click the selection box, select “Restart” and click “OK” to perform the restart.
If the start menu does not open and the shutdown screen does not appear with “Alt” + “F4” on the keyboard, there are other methods.
- Right-click the start button, hover over “Shut down or sign out” and select an action.
- Press “Ctrl” + “Alt” + “Delete” on the keyboard to change the screen display, so click the “power button” at the bottom right to select the operation.
- Press “Windows” + “L” on the keyboard to display the lock screen, so go to the sign-in screen and click the “power button” to select the operation.
After restarting the computer, check if the start menu opens.
If the start menu still does not open, run a system check and repair with the command in the next section.
System Check And Repair With Command
If the start menu does not open even after “restarting Explorer” and “restarting the computer”, it is a serious situation. It is recommended to execute the command with administrator privileges. Open Command Prompt in Windows Search
- After pressing the “Windows mark” on the keyboard, type ” cmd” .
- When “Command Prompt” appears in the search results, click “Run as administrator”.
1. When the command prompt appears, do a system file check. Type sfc /scannow and press Enter on your keyboard.
Wait for the checks and repairs to be performed.
“sfc /scannow” repair work, screen after start
If the repair is completed normally, “…restored successfully…”
If the repair was not completed successfully, “…repair failed…” is displayed. 2. Next, execute the following image (system) check command. Type Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth and press Enter on your keyboard.
It may take a long time to finish, but just wait. .
* Don’t forget the space.
Dism (space) Online (space) / Cleanup-Image (space) / If there is no space, an error will occur and execution will not be possible.When the check is complete,
you will either see “…not found broken” or “…can be repaired”, either of which is followed by the following command: 3. Eject and restore a good image (system). Type Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth and press Enter on your keyboard.
If “The operation completed successfully” is displayed, it is complete.
Finally, run the ” sfc /scannow ” command that you ran the first time again. When finished, restart your computer and see if the Start Menu opens.
Reset Start Menu
As a repair when the start menu does not open, there is a coping method by “reset the start menu”.
However, added pinning etc. may be deleted, so please decide whether to execute at your own discretion.Open PowerShell in Windows Search
- After pressing the “Windows mark” on the keyboard, continue to type ” powershell “.
- “Windows PowerShell” is displayed in the search results, so click “Run as administrator”.
You can paste it by right-clicking in the PowerShell screen, so copy and paste the command ( bold ) below.
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”} When pasting is complete, press “Enter” on your keyboard.
The processing time may take some time depending on the environment. Also, even if it seems to be stopped, it is still running, so just wait.
If “Windows\system32>” is displayed on the screen, resetting the start menu is complete.
* Even if the command execution is completed, resetting the start menu may fail, but there is no problem. After the command completes, restart your computer and see if the Start menu opens.