
Log out of the errant user and login to the one that works.The source was my c:\Users\David and the destination was in c:\Temp. Whilst I could have used xcopy with error parameters or just directly used File Explorer, I prefer robocopy mirroring: Whilst the user removal provides an ability to back up user data, I prefer a complete backup of my user data, i.e. So I investigated backing up my user data, removing my login and restoring it.įirst thing to do was to back up my user data.

I could see some fixes for this for earlier versions of Windows but none of these were relevant. A System Restore fixed that.įor the issues at hand, none of the System Restores would solve the problem. Two days before something went haywire with the touchpad and about that time I got a BSOD: The BSOD error I got was something to do with Watchdog, and was probably DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. If I logged into an alternative user on my machine the Start Menu worked.If I did (Cortana via text entry) search, items appeared but I couldn't activate any.Right-click on Start, the normal items showed.Click on the Start Menu no menu items showed.My system was slow and unresponsive after the reboot and the normal Start Menu wouldn’t work:

Last week I changed the Windows configuration to include Hyper-V which required a reboot but when it rebooted it also did some updates. This is the problem I was faced with: My Windows 10 has been working excellently since RTM, after one fix to do with Sleep,, although I had heaps of problems with the pre-release versions. Includes how to remove and restore a user on Windows 10.

It must have been something in my user directory. Not hardware as Window-L worked and if I login as another user on same machine, there were no issues. I had a problem in Windows 10, which meant I couldn’t blog for 4 days: After some updates and other changes, my Windows 10 Start Menu wouldn’t work.
