Windows 10 start button not working

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PC wouldn't boot last week, and after struggling with recov

Eery and resetting, I done a fresh install.

Windows 10 Pro, downloaded the latest version using Window's Media Install tool.

Formatted C: and fresh install. Installed some updates and installed chipset drivers. After restart the start button didn't work.

Spent hours reading 'fixes' online try to sort it, but it all failed. I assumed the chipset drivers were no longer compatible with the new build of 10, so did another fresh install.

This time I installed all available updates, sound card stuff, Chrome, LIFX app, and Office. Last night more updates were found. After installing a few and restarting, the start button is broken again! What is going on?! The settings app no longer works either, so can't continue installing remaining updates.

Does anyone have knowledge or experience to fix this?

EDIT: Also have Samsung Magician, NordVPN, and Rainmeter installed.

I rebooted in safe mode and selective startup, and the start button works in both. Rebooted back normally and it's working again. I'm thinking maybe it's a driver issue somewhere?
 
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I looked at your motherboard Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 spec, it used X58 chipset. The latest Intel chipset driver 10.1.1.44 supported X58 and above.

http://www.station-drivers.com/inde...y&func=select&id=406&orderby=2&page=3&lang=en

I suggest you to format C: and clean install then run Windows Update to install ALL updates first then you can try install chipset driver from above link. Try restart and see if start button still work, if it not work then you can uninstall chipset software through App and Features and restart PC and see if start button still work without chipset driver.
 
I have a X58 board with a I7 950 and get the same issue.

I could not get this sorted, worked fine for awhile then suddenly the start button stops working. As I could not fix this problem I went back to 7 and when I do need to do a OS re install I always try 10 but find myself going back to 7 every time due to issues using 10

I looked online and none of the fixes worked, I never had this issue when W10 first came out as I did use it originally without any issues but started to get BSOD - memory management so went back to 7 to see if I still got these BSOD which went away so stuck with it

All the drivers I used on W10 was either for W7 or W8 as due to the age of the mobo no W10 ones came out
 
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I read some Intel driver have issues esp NIC driver with the Fall Update.

For now on my clean install I have left the built in drivers till things settle.
 
Is the Chipset driver needed? What does it actually do? (I'll have a read).

Windows is still working OK at the moment, and no more updates are being found. Touch wood it was just a bad update maybe?
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
I looked at your motherboard Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 spec, it used X58 chipset. The latest Intel chipset driver 10.1.1.44 supported X58 and above.

http://www.station-drivers.com/inde...y&func=select&id=406&orderby=2&page=3&lang=en

I suggest you to format C: and clean install then run Windows Update to install ALL updates first then you can try install chipset driver from above link. Try restart and see if start button still work, if it not work then you can uninstall chipset software through App and Features and restart PC and see if start button still work without chipset driver.
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I done some reading and decided that having the correct chipset drivers installed was a good thing. I attempted to install the driver from here, but get an unknown error. Tried the driver from Intel website, unknown error.

Installed the drivers from the Gigabyte website for my board, they installed, but start button broken again! I now can't seem to uninstall them. Not sure how to do it. I still can't install the latest drivers for some reason.
 
Open an admin power shell and paste this in.

Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Let it complete, reboot and see if the start button works again.
 
Thank you. This seems to have fixed it. What did it do? (Perhaps I should've asked this first!)

It kept stalling/crashing/lagging. Took me a good 20 minutes to actually run the command successfully.
 
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