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So that's the best I could do with the title. It all started when I was playing skyrim and it crashed, I couldn't open task manager so I signed out and signed in again. After that I couldn't click on anything in my taskbar that had to do with windows (sound manager, notifications) and I couldn't open the start menu or search anything in the search box. I could open programs from the taskbar.

So I search online for a fix to this issue and I found This page Nothing helped until step 4. After completing step 4 the task menu actually opened and I could click on everything else normally BUT all of the programs from the start menu were gone, even the documents option above settings is gone. Only windows apps are not missing and are functional. I can't add anything in the start menu either. When I tried to at least activate the documents shortcut from personilization I found out that everything except settings was grayed out.

Restarted the computer, restarted explorer.exe.No results. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING has annoyed me as much as this has.

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While it could be a bad HDD, something like that is usually caused by a corrupted OS. Try refreshing the install before buying a new HDD. (Refresh reinstalls system data without deleting personal data)

Here are instructions: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/refresh-is-part-of-reset-in-windows-10

(I know the explanation of refresh was not 100% accurate, but it serves as a general explanation)

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Refreshing windows fixed my issue. I honestly don't know what caused it. I don't think my drives had anything to do with it but I can't say with certainty. Anyway thank you.

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