Start toolbar in windows 10

mxfun · 6 Feb 2016

Anyone having problems with this . When i go to click on the start icon or the search box nothing happens ,but further along the toolbar everything else works . I've already done a restore which helped for a wee while but now i'm back to square one again !!!

Any help would be great .

Thanks for looking .

gramps · 6 Feb 2016

Several reports of this in recent months and happened to me once ... quick Google: http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/com...g-here-are-four-ways-to-fix-it-11364000314532

Peteaud · 6 Feb 2016

Yes it's a windows 10 thing.

When the start icon wont work, nor does the rhs notification box.

Restart and all works well.

mxfun · 6 Feb 2016

Peteaud said:
Yes it's a windows 10 thing.

When the start icon wont work, nor does the rhs notification box.

Restart and all works well.

How do you restart when the start icon doesn't work

Peteaud · 6 Feb 2016

mxfun said:
How do you restart when the start icon doesn't work

Press and hold the ON button to force shutdown, then just restart. (Toshiba)

I have found that if i shut it down with the normal icon and dont let it go to sleep it doesn't do it. (go wrong I mean)

mxfun · 6 Feb 2016

Peteaud said:
Press and hold the ON button to force shutdown, then just restart. (Toshiba)

I have found that if i shut it down with the normal icon and dont let it go to sleep it doesn't do it. (go wrong I mean)

I tried holding the power button but lappy didn't turn off (Acer aspire F15)

Peteaud · 6 Feb 2016

mxfun said:
I tried holding the power button but lappy didn't turn off (Acer aspire F15)

Mine does after about 6 - 8 seconds.

You can use task manager as well I think.

mxfun · 6 Feb 2016

Cheers Pete

Peteaud · 6 Feb 2016

mxfun said:
Cheers Pete

no problem. Try shutting down and don't let it sleep and see if it stops doing it.

Did for me.

(I also went into setting and forced it to stay on)

ancient_mariner · 7 Feb 2016

Check your power settings - I always assign my power button to shut the computer down, rather than sleep/hibernate for just such a reason, but usually holding the power button down is enough to trigger a hard shut down eventually.

neil_g · 7 Feb 2016

Just for the record, killing the machine (holding the power) can cause more problems from corrupt files etc. It should not be used as a substitute for a shut down, only in cases where the system is completely locked.

A better way would be to click on the desktop and press ALT+F4 and you should get shutdown options.

mxfun · 7 Feb 2016

neil_g said:
Just for the record, killing the machine (holding the power) can cause more problems from corrupt files etc. It should not be used as a substitute for a shut down, only in cases where the system is completely locked.

A better way would be to click on the desktop and press ALT+F4 and you should get shutdown options.

Thanks Neil

donetello · 9 Feb 2016

Had this keep happening after an upgrade from 8.1,a clean install cured it.

tim_uk · 10 Feb 2016

I had this issue, along with some metro apps not working, if you go to the main ms win10 site then download the media creator tool. Then choose option to upgrade this pc (despite it already running win10), this fixed everything and left all files and settings intact, took about an hour mind.