windows 10

hi on windows 10 my search bar and start button on keyboard and screen does not work. please help this is so inconvinient.....

Sometimes an apparent irrelevant action works wonder.
How about do a couple of reboots ?

You might need to find out if you should have updates to be installed.
Since you cannot use the Start button or the Search bar, try this way...........
On the bottom right of the taskbar, next to Time, there is an icon called Notification > if you click it, do you see All settings ?
If yes, click it > click Update & Security > click Check for updates.

Which AV have you installed?
Windows 10 - Start Menu and Cortana not working? Fix Here! Hopefully - Windows Central blog

If none works for you, try this method.........................

Right click at it > click Command Prompt (Admin) > type powershell > press Enter key.
At the flashing prompt, copy and paste this command line ( to avoid typo it's best to apply Copy/paste method)......
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)AppXManifest.xml"}

> press Enter.

Go to task manager-new task-type explorer.exe that will restart the process

Go to task manager-new task-type explorer.exe that will restart the process

Sorry since all my other pcs and laptops are winxp that's how you'd do it on xp. It's actually run-type explorer.exe and that will restart the process

You might need to find out if you should have updates to be installed.
Since you cannot use the Start button or the Search bar, try this way...........
On the bottom right of the taskbar, next to Time, there is an icon called Notification > if you click it, do you see All settings ?
If yes, click it > click Update & Security > click Check for updates.

i tried this and it done an update but im still having same issues

This has been reported several times and there is a significant number of threads on this.

Solved CRITICAL ERROR - Start Menu and CORTANA aren't working. W'll try to fi - Windows 10 blog
Solved Start menu not working - Windows 10 blog

Please have a look through and feel free to search for more.. (search box at the top of this page)


Good luck!