Open task manager alt ctrl del or right click on taskbar and choose it find and select windows explorer click restart button on bottom right.
Windows home button not responding.
The start menu is where everything is on windows so it can be quite frustrating if it suddenly stops working and can make it near impossible to get anything done on your pc.
If the windows key does not provide shortcut access to the.
Windows key cannot open start menu.
After trying the methods there the problem should fix.
Windows key start menu not working.
Click on file at the top left of the task manager.
This is a physical key with the microsoft windows logo embedded on keyboards usually on the left of the keyboard which is linked to the start menu so when you press this key start menu opens and if it doesn t open the either the start menu or the windows button is not working.
Since the invention of the start menu keyboards have had the windows key also known as the winkey.
This may allow you to use the windows button until the next time that it freezes up.
A treatment for the symptom would be to restart windows explorer every time this happens.
If you can t access start menu by pressing the windows key or using the mouse go to windows 10 start button not working for the solutions.