The problem is irritating. \u00a0After logging into Windows 10, left clicking on the Start Menu, and Search Bar on the left, or the Action Center, Volume control, and Network icon on the right does nothing. \u00a0You can right click these items, but a left click does nothing. \u00a0Also Windows Store does not work. \u00a0Note, this only happened with domain users. \u00a0Local users were unaffected.<\/p>\n
We were running Windows server 2003 domain controllers, and the domain was set as a 2003 domain. \u00a0We upgraded our DC to Windows server 2012 R2, and adjust the domain level accordingly, but had the same problem.<\/p>\n
I spent many hours fighting this issue. \u00a0I scoured the Internet trying to find a solution. \u00a0They all boiled down to basically this page here<\/a>, and none of them worked.\u00a0 By now you are going, “It is your group policy you idiot.” \u00a0That is what we thought. \u00a0We made a temporary OU, moved our test computers and users into it and turned off all the group policies. \u00a0Still no dice.<\/p>\n I did some more desperate Googling and found out that people were mentioning Windows firewall. \u00a0I went to change my Windows firewall settings and was unable to. \u00a0Upon further investigation the Windows firewall service was disabled (obviously we missed something in our GP removal). \u00a0I set the service to start automatically, rebooted and voila working start menu. \u00a0I mean obviously who wouldn’t make their start menu dependent upon their firewall service. \u00a0Duh.<\/p>\n I just thought I would post this in case some one else was having the same problem.<\/p>\n Just a side note: \u00a0Windows firewall does not need to be turned on in Control Panel, the service just has to be running.<\/p>\n EDIT:\u00a0 Windows Firewall service needs to be started.\u00a0 Simply setting the service to start automatically is not enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The problem is irritating. \u00a0After logging into Windows 10, left clicking on the Start Menu, and Search Bar on the left, or the Action Center, Volume control, and Network icon on the right does nothing. \u00a0You can right click these items, but a left click does nothing. \u00a0Also Windows Store does not work. \u00a0Note, this … Continue reading “Windows 10 Start Menu Issue”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}