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I just updated to 1903 of W10 home. Previously I could right-click the icons on my taskbar and select menu choices like my blood sugar spreadsheet in Excel or recently viewed web pages in Chrome. After upgrading, nothing at all happens when I select the choices I use daily. I spent half a day on the phone with a Microsoft “tech”. I may name him Ulysses, so I can call him Useless for short. 
Ideas anyone?
Thanks,
TC
Go to settings\personalisation\start and ensure that ‘show recently opened items in jumplists’ is set to yes. Might not be your problem but it’s simple to check.
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Thanks. I had it set correctly. 
I just updated to 1903 of W10 home. Previously I could right-click the icons on my taskbar and select menu choices like my blood sugar spreadsheet in Excel or recently viewed web pages in Chrome. After upgrading, nothing at all happens when I select the choices I use daily. I spent half a day on the phone with a Microsoft “tech”. I may name him Ulysses, so I can call him Useless for short.
Ideas anyone?
Thanks,
TC
I don’t use Google Chrome but you might want to discuss your issue at the Google Chrome Help Community
https://support.google.com/chrome/community?hl=en
HP EliteBook 8540w laptop Windows 10 Pro (x64)
I’ve spent over 8 hours trying several fixes I’ve found online but nothing worked. In the end a simple system restore fixed the problem (just pick one of those automatically generated restore points, a few days before your problem occurred).
*Not to be confused with the useless windows recovery
@TomCat – This could be ‘per user’ (i.e. only affecting the account you are currently using on the device… often caused by a corrupt profile) or ‘system-wide’ (i.e. happens with any account).
Do you have another account on the same device to test whether the same happens? If so, ‘Sign out’ of your current account, ‘Sign in’ to another account and – for example – create and save multiple files within Notepad to see whether Notepad shows them in its jumplist when you *right*-click on its taskbar icon.
If you don’t have another account on the device and don’t want to create one then try the following:
1. Open File Explorer.
2. In the File menu, select Change folder and search options.
3. When the Folder Options dialog appears, click on the View tab.
4. In the Advanced settings list, make sure that the Show hidden files, folders and drives option is selected under Hidden files and folders.
5. Click on the Apply to Folders button then the OK button to dismiss the dialog.
6. Copy/paste the following into File Explorer‘s navigation bar (it’s a special hidden folder so you *cannot* just browse to it):
%appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations\
File Explorer will display the folder where your current user account’s jumplists are stored. Each app creates a file in which to store its jumplists.
(You can at this point *right*-click on any of the files and choose Open with then select Notepad. Notepad will display mostly nonsense but you will see occasional plain text indicating what app’s jumplist is displayed.)
7. Delete the contents of the folder… (or move the contents somewhere else). Don’t worry… the jumplists *will* be recreated so this is perfectly safe. These are only jumplists to files, not the files themselves.
As these are ‘per user’ settings there should be no need for you to reboot. Instead, close any apps then re-open your ‘favourite’ files in these apps (e.g. your ‘blood sugar’ spreadsheet in Excel).
8. For the benefit of others, please post back whether this worked for you.
Hope this helps…
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