I am mad… madder than in a long while. My Start Menu stopped working, so did the calendar, I would click on them, the mouse would flicker and nothing would happen.
I finally fixed though… after installing all new drivers and msconfig and killing startups, etc… no joy. Here are the steps, in order of increasing anger until the last one worked.
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Interwebs say start the Application Identity service… I’m a ticking time-bomb of fury
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I rebuild the DISM image… Rage taking over
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
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Somebody said to delete applocker files… I am like a powder-keg and you are the match Start Menu
ren %windir%\System32\AppLocker\Plugin*.* *.bak
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Re-registered all the app packages… Rage subsiding, control regained
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}
If that didn’t work, I was going to find more squirrels to trumpet to death. The squirrels are safe… for now.