Tag: start menu

VIDEO: Fast Fix For Windows 10 Slow Start Menu Searches with Cortana

If you find your Windows 10 Start Menu is functional but typing text in the search bar is very slow or sluggish, there is a very easy fix. NOTES: If icons are missing or clicking on START menu items does nothing, the fix for that is HERE You will still be able to search from the START button after this easy change Disabling Cortana though the Start Menu GUI, does not resolve the issue VIDEO: FIX…

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SOLVED: Windows 10 Calculator, Weather or Other App Not Starting

If your Windows 10 Start Menu icons and tiles turn dark and / or get a ‘download progress bar’ under them you can easily reset them.  In previous versions of Windows 10, if your start menu icons stopped working you could resolve it but was a quite a task.  In Windows 10 1607 and 1703 (Creators Update released in April 2017) a RESET option is now available. To Fix Start Menu Items in Windows 10: RIGHT click on the START button…

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SOLVED: Customize Windows 10 Start Menu & Taskbar Using a GPO in 6 Easy Steps

If you run Windows 10 in a corporate settings you will likely want to set a few default entries in the START menu and TASKBAR.  If nothing else you will likely want to remove the default junk that Microsoft clutters the START menu with.  Fortunately after a few hours of playing with this we have found it can be done without too much effort. Note this only works on Windows 10 Enterprise and Education although…

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SOLVED: Fix Windows 10 Start Button Problems with START Menu Repair Tool

Microsoft has acknowledged that Windows 10 sometimes has problems with the START button and developed a free repair tool.   You can download and run this tool directly from Microsoft. Over the last year our most popular pages have been How to repair the Windows 10 Start Menu when you click it, nothing happens.  We built an initial page with 4 common fixes and the n another page with a much more complex, but nearly always works…

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VIDEO SHOCKER: Windows 9 Gets a START Menu

Yes, boys and girls there is some sanity left at Microsoft.  After removing such useful features as transparent window frames, Win+Tab movement and the Start BUTTON from Windows 8, they have re-added the most important feature, the Start MENU.  Check out the video:

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