How to Fix Missing Start Menu in Windows 10

This may rarely happen, but this happens to my PC once. In Windows 10, the Start Menu was suddenly stopped to work! Disappear, vanish missing from it place. If you are a Windows 10 user and have the same problem as I am, and landing here in my blog. You are in the right place. Because in this post I will share tips about how to fix missing start menu in Windows 10, in ‘simple & easy way’ of course.

When it happens to my PC, actually I’ve tried System restore point. And yeah it can not solve the issue. Windows Recovery also seems can’t make your lovely start menu back to its place. While.. you know I don’t want to re-installing Windows and all the lovely softwares from the beginning again. Ha ha ha! yeah! You know how it feels.. starting everything from the beginning..

And after doing some research looking for most working methods to fix missing Start Menu in Windows 10. Finally, I found one. The most efficient one.

What is actually caused the Windows start menu vanish from it place?

And the answer that I know: it can happen after the Windows update. It also could be caused by third–party software. Or maybe it could be caused by your Cat who pressing your keyboard randomly and accidentally deactivate the Start Menu! who knows? ? ?

Okay! you don’t have to be confused about what caused it right now. Because in this post we just focus on how to fix it. So this is how you can fix missing start menus in Windows 10.

Fix Missing Start Menu in Windows 10 using Power shell

We gonna working with Windows PowerShell this time. If you never messing around with Windows power shell then this time you’ll do!

To open Windows power shell simply open Task Manager by press Ctrl > Alt > Delete on your keyboard or just right click on Windows Taskbar and choose ‘Task manager’  see screenshot below.

Then click or tap ‘File’ in top-left menus in Windows Task Manager, and choose ‘Run new task‘. See screenshot below.

A ‘mini’ window will pop up. Write down “Powershell” (without quote) into the text box. Important! don’t forget to Check-mark the box ✅ ‘Create this task with administrative privileges.’ See screenshot below for the example

Click OK to execute the command!

A ‘big’ blue window will reveal! this is ‘Windows PowerShell.’

Write manually or you can simply copy and paste this code below into Windows PowerShell command.

Get-appxpackage -all *shellexperience* -packagetype bundle |% {add-appxpackage -register -disabledevelopmentmode ($_.installlocation + "\appxmetadata\appxbundlemanifest.xml")}

Hit the ‘Enter’ button on your keyboard to execute the command! wait for a while and let the Windows PowerShel finish the work for ya.

Close Windows PowerShell when finish. You can now check for the Start menu working or not this time. If still won’t work, try to restart your computer and check again.

This time your Windows 10 Start menu now should works again like a normal if you do this correctly.

Just closing words

This post is you can say my journal for any issue related OS. In this case is Windows 10. If Microsoft said that Windows 10 is the best Windows ever!

Honestly, I agree with that statement. Even tho, sometimes “little problem” happens, you know.

But! there is always a way to fix it! right?. So.. I hope this post can help you to fix missing Start Menu in Windows 10.