Hey! I am having an extremely annoying issue where I can't use the right click menu on Taskbar.
Whenever I open that menu and click on something, it refuses to open. It acts as if I never clicked it. However, 'Search','Run', 'Desktop', and 'Shut down' work, it's the rest that don't.
It's probably worth noting that I had this problem on Windows 8.1 also. I just upgraded today hoping it would resolve itself but it hasn't. I haven't changed anything major on my system and I don't know when this started but I can't imagine it was that long ago. I am on an HP pavilion desktop and I can open these things separately via a search, it's only this menu that is broken.
The red box is all of the stuff that doesn't work.
Thank you for reading!
Hello solpisis and welcome to the windowssh blog
There is a tutorial on the Eightblog site that shows how to edit the Start button (Win +X) Context menu with a little program that you download. It also has a restore defaults option which might get you back working again. I have not tried it but I understand it works in Windows 10 too!
Download Win+X Menu Editor for Windows 8 allows you to add or remove Win+X menu items
I downloaded the app and attempted to just restore defaults which didn't work. I then manually deleted Control Panel and added it again and it still didn't work. It's as if the entire menu is permanently unresponsive. I've restarted my PC also to no avail.Hello solpisis and welcome to the windowssh blog
There is a tutorial on the Eightblog site that shows how to edit the Start button (Win +X) Context menu with a little program that you download. It also has a restore defaults option which might get you back working again. I have not tried it but I understand it works in Windows 10 too!
A clean install of Windows 10 will almost surely fix this.
I don't know how to do a clean install of 10 since I have 8.1 and have upgraded by just doing the automatic upgrade thing. It's also a ton of effort to fix this problem, I'd much rather try and do something that doesn't require a full reformat. Especially since I'm having trouble with 10 for other reasons not listed in this thread.A clean install of Windows 10 will almost surely fix this.
- Download Windows 10 ISO file from here: Windows 10 Download - Tech Bench
- Use Rufus - Create bootable USB to create a bootable USB stick
- plug in the USB, then run setup.exe. This will do an in place repair.
I will do this for the future so I won't have to worry about dealing with W10 installs, however I managed to fix it by doing a windows 'reset', so all is good now!
- Download Windows 10 ISO file from here: Windows 10 Download - Tech Bench
- Use Rufus - Create bootable USB to create a bootable USB stick
- plug in the USB, then run setup.exe. This will do an in place repair.
Thanks everyone.
