ohio_grad_06
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I keep getting Windows 10 machines with the error shown here.
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN299201
I know the recommended fix is to create a new account. However, this is at my 9-5, so most of these are joined to the domain, which complicates things because you can't just create a new user account, or even if you do the old windows 7 registry hack to fix corrupt profiles, it wants to create a new folder with a tag on the end of it, so their data is in one user folder and the account is in the other if that makes sense.
In the past I've been able to get around this by doing system restore, which helps. If there aren't any restore points available, the easiest fix seems to be a pizza tech method of backing up the data and reformatting. But sometimes the same people come back with the same trouble. We do use dropbox for some of our users.
I've tried the methods listed here, but not much luck.
http://www.urtech.ca/2015/09/solved-fix-windows-10-start-button-does-nothing-in-10-minutes/
I also found a Microsoft Start Menu troubleshooting tool that on the machine I'm working on for example, took away the critical error, but just made the start menu do nothing when you click the button.
Note, this is only affecting 1 account. The other domain accounts on the system work fine. We use this laptop for example as a general use system, so we'll use it, put it in a cabinet for a month, then when a meeting or whatever comes up that we need to set up for, we'll pull it out, just many times don't have time for the issues with the start menu when that is a very basic part of the OS that should just work.
It seems like there should be a simple fix. Anyone have any tried and true methods?
Edit-Wonder if the tweaking.com tool may work.
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN299201
I know the recommended fix is to create a new account. However, this is at my 9-5, so most of these are joined to the domain, which complicates things because you can't just create a new user account, or even if you do the old windows 7 registry hack to fix corrupt profiles, it wants to create a new folder with a tag on the end of it, so their data is in one user folder and the account is in the other if that makes sense.
In the past I've been able to get around this by doing system restore, which helps. If there aren't any restore points available, the easiest fix seems to be a pizza tech method of backing up the data and reformatting. But sometimes the same people come back with the same trouble. We do use dropbox for some of our users.
I've tried the methods listed here, but not much luck.
http://www.urtech.ca/2015/09/solved-fix-windows-10-start-button-does-nothing-in-10-minutes/
I also found a Microsoft Start Menu troubleshooting tool that on the machine I'm working on for example, took away the critical error, but just made the start menu do nothing when you click the button.
Note, this is only affecting 1 account. The other domain accounts on the system work fine. We use this laptop for example as a general use system, so we'll use it, put it in a cabinet for a month, then when a meeting or whatever comes up that we need to set up for, we'll pull it out, just many times don't have time for the issues with the start menu when that is a very basic part of the OS that should just work.
It seems like there should be a simple fix. Anyone have any tried and true methods?
Edit-Wonder if the tweaking.com tool may work.