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c_dug
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PostPosted: 13:03 - 23 Jan 2016    Post subject: Windows 10 'windows apps' breaking. Reply with quote

I've had this issue a couple of timesnow and so am familiar with the short term fix, but would like to get to the route cause.

My freshly built windows 10 pc keeps losing its windows functions. By that I mean anything in the bottom start bar stops working, the menu, the search, the clock, shortcuts, the whole lot. The bar is still there, but you can't click on anything, and the clock disappears entirely. Restarting does nothing, there are various fixes online, the only one that's worked for me is creating a new user account through cmd (you don't have to use the account, the act of creating a new one is enough to make the original one work).

It's getting a bit frustrating having to do this, so I'd like to work out what is actually causing the issue.

Any suggestions on how to begin getting to the bottom of this?
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PostPosted: 15:07 - 24 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

First off, is it a legit copy?
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PostPosted: 15:33 - 24 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup
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PostPosted: 06:12 - 25 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Get a mac


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PostPosted: 07:17 - 25 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anything showing in the event logs?
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PostPosted: 08:38 - 25 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

L-Jam wrote:
Get a mac


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Doesn't solve many issues. I use one daily and have had plenty of issues Laughing
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PostPosted: 10:12 - 25 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

L-Jam wrote:
Get a mac
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Laughing

Ever tried to install an operating system on a Mac?? Specifically rolling back to a previous version?

One of my mates had accidentally let his OSX 10.6 music studio machine update itself to 10.11, in the process rendering all his audio equipment useless (they were mid-2000s bits of kit and there were no drivers later than OSX 10.7).

In a windows machine reinstalling takes about half hour. Get OS on usb, format hdd and reinstall. The bootloader on OSX 10.11 wouldn't even let me format the hdd using the 10.6 usb I made.

I had to roll back 10.11 to 10.10, then that allowed me to roll back to 10.7 then finally 10.6. Spent hours and hours downloading various OSX versions and loading them to usb to try and downgrade the installation.

Now granted I have no idea what I'm doing on a Mac, and an experience Mac person would have done it much faster. It seems tho that "Macs just work" only applies to when you are doing what Stevie wants, as soon as you need to do something away from the route Apple is herding you down it just turns into a massive clusterfuck
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PostPosted: 10:27 - 25 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Disk Utility > Format in there first for future ref Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 10:56 - 25 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seb wrote:
Disk Utility > Format in there first for future ref Thumbs Up


I tried that but it didn't seem to be working on the 10.6 usb I made up. I booted from the usb, went into disk utility but the Mac's hdd was greyed out.

I repeated the process with another usb with 10.10 loaded and the disk utility managed to nuke the drive with 10.11 and install 10.10 with no problems.

Then after a few downgrades the original 10.6 usb (that couldn't kill the 10.11 install) managed to install with no dramas and has been running fine in my mates studio since.

It was quite fun actually, in the way that a puzzle is fun, but quite a lot of swearing at the time
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c_dug
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PostPosted: 14:16 - 25 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

CaNsA wrote:
Anything showing in the event logs?


It's working fine at the moment, I presume there isn't much to be gained by looking now?
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PostPosted: 15:52 - 25 Jan 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

c_dug wrote:
CaNsA wrote:
Anything showing in the event logs?


It's working fine at the moment, I presume there isn't much to be gained by looking now?


You wont unless you look.
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