

It lists every useful piece of software on your computer, including commands, programs, and files. That’s why the Start menu is so important ( Figure 1-4). They may as well bear a sticker reading, “No user-serviceable parts inside.” The vast majority of them are not for you they’re support files, there for behind-the-scenes use by Windows and your applications.

Hope this helps anyone who might have unknowingly downloaded a bad 1809 ISO from Microsoft and in a similar situation.Windows is composed of 50 million lines of computer code, scattered across your hard drive in thousands of files. I've since been able to upgrade from 7 to 10 1809 without issue.

Re-downloaded Windand noticed the ISO size was bigger. I tried upgrading to my old WindISO and it worked flawlessly. That's when it clicked that it had to be something to do with the ISO/setup files I was using. I tried upgrading the OS domain joined regular, different OU with no Windows 10 configuration changes, removed from the domain, and never joined to the domain. I originally thought it had something to do with group policies, so tried upgrading a bunch of different ways (doing so with a virtual machine and snapshots made this much easier). The DISIM commands, Get-AppXPackage commands, and regedits did nothing for me. Wiping/installing fresh, or upgrading an older version of Windows 10 to 1809 using the ISO both worked fine, but the 7 to 10 upgrade would leave me with a start button that didn't work. I've been fighting this beast for over a month now. The solution was to rollback to 7, re-download the media creation tool for Windand create new install media, then upgrade again. My issue ended up being a bad WindISO download from Microsoft. The 1809 upgrade needs to be pulled down immediately…again.īeen having issues with upgrading Windows 7 to 10 1809, then not having the start menu load when you click on it for over a month. Three PC’s all with the same issue and this is following the other disasters with original release of 1809!!! The best I have come up with so far is to back up the users folders, then fresh install Windows 10. Tried to go back to the newest System Restore point just before the update – Restore completes successfully, but doesn’t solve the problem. This is what I have tried, without success: - Ctrl-Alt-Del, then did a SHIFT-Restart to get into recovery/advanced start-up mode, then - Tried to go back to previous version of Windows 10 – FAILED.

When I click on the Recycle Bin it says "An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist" - The Taskbar is visible but I cannot click on anything or open the start menu. A black desktop with just the Recycle Bin showing. Some sort of failure to install windfeature update results in: I have just received my 3rd PC in two weeks here at my PC repair workshop with this exact fault.
