Fix: Start Menu and Cortana is not working in Windows 10

Make Windows 10 Start Job Menu again

There may be several reasons for the rotation of the Start menu and as usual, a solution can not fit everywhere. Still, you should give the following a try and who knows, the start menu starts working again, saving a hard reset or reinstalling Windows 10 again.

Back up any data you have stored in modern applications are re-installed each. desktop software and applications are not affected though.

1. Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator
   1. Right click Start button
   2. Choose Command prompt (Admin)
   3. Key in Powershell in the black window and hit Enter
2. Paste the following command in the Administrator: Windows PowerShell window and press Enter key:

   Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

3. Wait for PowerShell to execute and complete the command. Ignore the few errors (in red color) that may pop up.
4. When it finishes, try hitting Start and hopefully it’ll start working. If not, this solution won’t apply to you, unfortunately.

Are you able to solve it for you by following the above procedure or fails? If an error occurs, make sure that PowerShell is run as an administrator (called Window Manager: Windows PowerShell) and gave enough time to execute commands.

Still no luck? You can get everything works by creating a new user account and work under it. You lose some of your user data, but most files and documents can be transferred to the copy of the data from your desktop, documents, images and other libraries.