Start Menu Error

Jan 10, 2016

so the other day when i tried to open up the start menu it dosen't even open up. this has happened to me in windows 8 so i was able to easily fix it but as soon as i restart my computer, it just's comes back again, it's getting very annoying opening up the powershell putting in the code to fix it up while the os itself should boot it up.

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Edit - switched to a local account on the machine and PU menu is there and working - so is this a permissions thing? My original account is admin.

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