If you have a new Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 installation, you will find that when you right click on the START button, you will see COMMAND PROMPT as an option. For standard users this is fine, but for administrators, you will likely want the more powerful POWERSHELL option. Read more…
If your Windows 10 Start Menu icons and tiles turn dark and / or get a ‘download progress bar’ under them you can easily reset them. In previous versions of Windows 10, if your start menu icons stopped working you could resolve it but was a quite a task. In Windows 10 Read more…
Microsoft has acknowledged that Windows 10 sometimes has problems with the START button and developed a free repair tool. You can download and run this tool directly from Microsoft. Over the last year our most popular pages have been How to repair the Windows 10 Start Menu when you click Read more…
UPDATE: June 21, 2016 – Microsoft has released a free repair tool for the Windows 10 START menu. You can read very brief explanation and download it here. UPDATE: Jan 19 2018 – If your issue is that typing searches into the START menu is very slow or sluggish, the Read more…
UPDATE: June 21, 2016 – Microsoft has released a free repair tool for the Windows 10 START menu. You can read very brief explanation and download it here. . It was a dark and stormy nighty in April when I installed Windows 10 build 10041 (on the fast ring) and Read more…
Yes, boys and girls there is some sanity left at Microsoft. After removing such useful features as transparent window frames, Win+Tab movement and the Start BUTTON from Windows 8, they have re-added the most important feature, the Start MENU. Check out the video:
If you right click on the START button but do not see a context menu you likely have corrupted or missing folder: c:\User\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX The solution is just to copy this folder (and its three subfolders) from a working machine. In my case, I was able to copy these files from Read more…
Previously I had posted several easy ways to add a Start button to Windows 8 urtech.ca/2012/10/solved-solved-solved-oh-joy-solved-how-to-add-the-start-button-into-windows-8/ but this is an ENTIRELY different approach… run Windows 7’s EXPLORER.EXE (i.e. the entire Windows 7 DESKTOP) in Windows 8. I have not tried this yet, but several notable tech staffers have with no complaints after Read more…
My God this has frustrated me. You likely know that Microsoft has removed the start button from Windows 8 and early versions of third party coded Start buttons were unusable… not anymore! There are now several answers and I will begin with the two I most like. 1: CLASSIC SHELL Read more…