Windows 10 broken?

[Giganizer300PRO]

So, I've got this quite old laptop with win 10 installed. 

When it starts up and when I log in, an error message appears saying Start menu and Cortana don't work. There's a button that signs you out and when you sign in again it's the same. All the icons in the start menu are gone. So if I sign out and restart from the sign in menu, it start working fine, but then it all breaks eventually again.

[Kirky2k15]

Sounds like a profile issue...

[iamdarkyoshi]

Add that issue to the list...

[DarthSlater77]

Go back to Win7

in the words of Admiral Ackbar: Win10 "it's a trap!"

[Tsuki]

does safemode work fine?

[kbenton00]

Had the same issue... after a couple of days trying different "google" fixes that didn't help I simply did a restore from the time that it all started to go bad. It has worked fine since then but I've disabled the auto update on my system as I think it was an update that caused the problem.

[Redicat]

[kbenton00]

Welp, I did 3 out of 4 of his fixes and they didn't work for me. The only one I didn't try was the new user account. By the time I got to that point it was simpler to do a restore.

[Redicat]

Welp, I did 3 out of 4 of his fixes and they didn't work for me. The only one I didn't try was the new user account. By the time I got to that point it was simpler to do a restore.

 

Update with Windows update should fix...

[kbenton00]

Personally I think it was a Windows update that broke my start menu. It all started happening after I installed an update on the 9th. When in the broken state no updates were available. I did the restore back to the point before it broke and that solved the problem.