Laptop taskbar and start menu not working

[CCRivas]

I have this laptop just for school work, sorry that I can’t check the details since somehow with the current problem the start menu icon is gone and right click doesn’t work on the taskbar, and if any program is open the same nothing is showing on the takbar, it shows the arrow for hidden icons but right click doesn’t work in that either, the rest works fine, I can work just fine in any other program, is just the taskbar not shwoing that seems the only issue. I tried looking up but couldn’t find anything related to my issue one thing I tried was doing sfc /scannow on PowerShell and restarted the laptop after it since it did found some issues that said were fixed and restarted the laptop after that but the issue with the takbar stil remainds.

[Malnutrition]

Download KillEmAll to your desktop.
Download smartfix to your desktop.

Right click KillEmAll and run as admin.
Hit Enter twice.
You will know it has ran because it will close all non essential-non windows programs. (Including your browser) So with that in mind save anything you are working on prior to running this.

Now right click Smartfix and run as admin.
Tick the launching button.
Select WinRepair from the drop down menu.
Make sure I accept the terms of use is ticked.
Then hit the start button.

Allow this tool to complete, then reboot. You may need to run it again, then you can run the batch file below.

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Open a notepad and copy the content of the code box below, paste into open notepad.
Save it to your desktop as[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)] fix.bat then right click on [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]fix.bat and run as admin.

[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Note: This batch will reboot your machine so close anything you are working on and save it.

[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Do not copy the word code!!

[ICODE] @echo off %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\lodctr.exe /R %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\lodctr.exe /R C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\lodctr.exe /R C:\Windows\SysWOW64\lodctr.exe /R DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup pause DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth del /s /q C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\download\*.* del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\temp\*.*" del /f /s /q %windir%\prefetch\*.* del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.tmp ipconfig /flushdns pause sfc /scannow pause shutdown -r Exit /B[/ICODE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]

[Bruce]

if no luck with the above, see if the problem is there when booted into Safe Mode.
and also create another user account and log in under that profile and see if it’s still there.

[Malnutrition]

@CCRivas

As well from elevated PowerShell.

Please run this command, if the above steps are of no use.
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}

Reboot after, and check.

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From Elevated command prompt, which can be opened by hitting windows key and r at the same time then type CMD into the run box, make sure the run elevated box it ticked, then hit enter.

Copy and paste the following commands into command prompt one at a time hitting enter after each.
sc stop tiledatamodelsvc
echo y|del %userprofile%\AppData\Local\TileDataLayer
md “%userprofile%\AppData\Local\TileDataLayer”
sc start tiledatamodelsvc

[Bruce]

@CCRivas - any progress?

[CCRivas]

Yes I have tried the suggestions given no luck with them the problem was still ther., Luckyly since it was a new laptop a fresh reinstall of windows did the work, not much lost, but I do have to wonder if I put more time looking for other ways to fix it without the need for a reinstall of window if I see this problem pop up again.

[Bruce]

glad you got it sorted.
best bet would now be to watch out if it happens again and work out what was the last change you did that may have caused it!

[Bruce]

@CCRivas - anything to report?

[CCRivas]

Reinstalling windows seems like did the work and is working properly now thanks, yea I don’t think I changed anything that might have caused it only thing that happen before is that I installed a program that was needed to use for my school work, but now that I reinstalled windows and installed that program again seem the problem didn’t happen again