Start menu not working & taskbar alignment settings missing (Windows 11 21H2 22000.100)

There have been many reports of this. Can you file feedback and share the link?

Microsoft wants to know more about this problem.

Please log a feedback item in the Hub, you need to file the Feedback entry in Developer Platform>App Deployment. Make sure to capture a trace as well and attach it.

If you send the feedback link to me I'll send it to the relevant people.

Hi Sumit,

I just wanted to add onto this post because without access to the start button you cannot search for the Feedback Hub. I also just received the beta track update and am unable to open the start menu. I am able to open the Settings window through the Taskbar Settings but when you search there for Feedback Hub nothing comes up. So currently I have found no way to provide feedback. I can also only open applications pinned on my taskbar since I cannot open the start menu.

Thanks,

Ryan

System info:

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10885H CPU @ 2.40GHz 2.40 GHz

Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.8 GB usable)

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch Touch support with 10 touch points

Edition Windows 11 Pro

Version 21H2

Installed on ‎8/‎1/‎2021

OS build 22000.100

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3920.0

Hi Ryan,

Maybe I have a solution for that. In my case, i still see the Windows 10 taskbar after upgrading to build 22000.100 on Beta Channel, and it makes start button function not working. It happened maybe because before all this I was in Dev Channel and did a rollback.

So for the solution, you need to uninstall the update KB5004300, after uninstalling, it should prompt you to restart. When your PC finishes restarting, you'll get a Windows 11 taskbar and the Start button function will work, but the Settings menu will be Windows 10 style. Now all you need is to go back to windows update, check for updates and reinstall KB5004300, and you should have everything updated to Windows 11.

You can uninstall an update by going to Settings>Windows Update>Update history>Uninstall update (Under Related settings).

Thariq

Thanks much! This fixed my problem with my ASUS Notebook.

Have a good one,

Scott

Just an FYI, Thariq's solution worked perfectly for my ASUS notebook

After upgrading to win 11, i found, that start menu and some other popups (such as account management, sounds etc) don't work (no reaction on click, some reaction on right button). I rollback to win10, wait to the next version (132), install it and found the same problems. And I never got KB5004300.

In my case solution was:

1) Signing up with local account (in my case windows make local account)

2) Restart, login with local account (start menu still don't work, microsoft account not signed, signing from settings/account doesn't work).

3) Making new local account (Administrator)

4) Restart, login with new local account (start menu work, but desktop clear)

5) Restart, login with old account

6) Copy AppData, desktop, documents, etc from old local account to the new one. Overwrite all, skip all missing files 

7) Restart, login with new local account. All works fine, all data and preferences transferred  (except putty and winscp settings) Also, i refill the taskbar by opening programs and pin them.

8) Sign up microsoft account, restart, login with microsoft account

9) Remove old local account

with nvme as system disk, all operations takes about 30 min (my profile about 40 Gb size)

i am unable to roll back the windows as i updated from the windows 11 installer , is there any other way to fix this problem ?

device- Legion 5 /i5 10th gen

What if there is no update KB5004300?

What if there is no update KB5004300?

Have you checked for updates lately?

This thread dates back to August build 22000.100, the issue has long been fixed since then.

We are up to build 22000.348 now. 😉