Last night my PC updated with Cumulative update 2023-01 (KB5022303), and this morning I found the Start menu was failing to open. I tried various recommended fixes but none of them worked. However, I also found a YouTube video of ‘hidden’ features in this update, among them a Search option for the taskbar, which I added out of curiosity. Right-clicking on the magnifying-glass icon gave me a whole new menu under Properties (attached), including the option to change to a Windows 10 Start menu. Hooray – I always preferred this anyway. So now I have a working Windows 10 Start menu!
Edited to add: I’ve subsequently updated a different PC, and the taskbar Search option gives a search bar instead of just a magnifying-glass icon; on the PC decribed above it was only an icon. I couldn’t find any way of switching between them, and on the different PC there’s no effect of right-clicking on the search bar. So maybe not everyone will be as lucky as I was, especially as I’ve found no other reports online of a disabled Start menu.
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