Windows 10 - Lost Start Menu

SurferDan

tehone said:

On the actual TV display settings have you perhaps activated a zoom mode or something like that

If there is no zoom mode, as tehone suggested, has the aspect ratio of the TV been changed?
Try resetting it to auto or 4:3.

TinyPomegranate

Oneye12 said:

It's a desktop with standard keyboard so no Windows key .....
I'll check in the next few days about updates 

Try pressing the ctrl and esc keys at the same time, that will bring up the start menu if it's at all possible on your machine same as a windows key would if you had one.

Oneye12

- First thing I tried on the TV was auto mode ... don’t think it has aspect ratio option - will check on that though.

- Keyboard has a ‘Windows’ key ! (Clearly never used it before on this PC). Gives same result as accessing Start Menu  - Comes up with “Fatal Error. Sign off. Will re-build start menu on power up’.
You can’t do anything except power down and no, still no start menu. 

Will check on ctrl / esc key functionality.

debitcardmayhem

try going into windows settings and see if you can run update

Press Windows-Key and R together

type in CMD and press enter

if a command prompt window comes up

enter

start ms-settings:

Laz123

You could try reinstalling the w10 image using the DISM command. It won't do any harm and it's better than the sfc command: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-dism-command-line-utility-repair-windows-10-image

poppellerant

Laz123 said:

You could try reinstalling the w10 image using the DISM command. It won't do any harm and it's better than the sfc command: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-dism-command-line-utility-repair-windows-10-image

That isn't reinstalling Windows, just repairing the image with the option of using an ISO as the source to replace damaged files.

I would use an 8GB+ USB stick to create Windows 10 installation media and do a clean installation from that - ensuring that all disk partitions are deleted from the drive first, which can be done during setup before it copies any files to the drive.