How To Fix the Windows 10 Start Menu if it’s frozen?

If your Start menu stops working in Windows 10, here’s what you can do to fix it.

First of all, open Task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC at the same time. If the User Account Control prompt appears, just click Yes.
Next, you want to click “More details” on the bottom right of the window, which should open a bunch of tabs across the top.
From the “Processes” tab, scroll down until you find the “Windows Explorer” process – right click this and select “Restart” from the menu.

To begin, we’ll need to open the Task Manager window again, which can be done using CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously.
Once open, click File, then Run New Task (this can be achieved by pressing ALT, then up and down on the arrow keys).
Next, click the “Create this task with Administrator Privileges” option, then type “powershell” and press ENTER. This should bring up the PowerShell window.
Here things get fiddly. You need to type the following exactly as it appears:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}
You may get a read notice in the box – this can be safely ignored. Once the process is complete, simply restart the machine to see if the fix worked.

First of all, make sure you backup your system before going any further. You’ll also need to make sure your system is connected to the internet.
Next, open up the Task Manager again (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC), click File, Run New Task, “Create this task with Administrator Privileges”, type “powershell”, and hit ENTER.
In PowerShell, type “sfc /scannow” & “DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth” and let it run. Here we’re telling the machine to scan for any corrupt files and flag them to us.

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