Windows update 1709 killed start menu

[leosuth]

Anyone fixed this? I have tried to run the Get-AppXPackage thingy in PS (Admin)- - it says Processing and I got a line of 0's to indicate so-called progress - but it sitting doing nothing. How long should it take?

 

[leosuth]

In addition, I can't access Settings or Control panel (by clicking on stuff, or by using Windows+X or Windows+I) so I can't, for example, do a rollback to 1703

 

[leosuth]

Just for people's info.

I spent yesterday evening struggling with the non-working Start menu for build 1709 (as per above posts). When I came in tis morning, I started up and was immediately able to get the Start menu fully working. Yay. Wondered if there had been some invisible patch or something However, to check, I did a restart and it was back to failing again.

What I finally realized was that I had started my machine and left it at the start screen while i made breakfast. I distinctly heard a notification come through (it turned out to be a new Java update), then when I logged in, I was able to get the Start menu perfectly. I tried a few restarts, not waiting, and the Start menu failed each time. So I tried to leave it sitting at the start screen as before until the notification happened. Again I was able to perfectly start the Start menu. Don't know if this is of any help.

I also noticed that when the Start menu failed and I did a restart/shutdown, I got a message that the Task Handling Window was hanging trying to close something, and I had to force the issue.

Anyway, now having a working system, I decided to rollback to 1703, which I did - no more problems! Roll on new update.