Windows 10 Start Menu and Search not working.

[DragonRider]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Says the only one doing the bitching! Yikes, buy a vowel! And analyzing systems without information is voodoo, not helping. You don't know anything about what drivers he's trying to run on his machine and can't truthfully make the statement you made.

The only possible truthful answer is the generic one I gave. There was a problem of unknown nature with the Windows Explorer system. It had a problem, shrugged its shoulders and checked out. There's a possibility that the user ran out of patience before the system could correct itself. Possibly the system was hung. The possibility of a driver is very unlikely since the machine has been running normally for some time before the incident.

Since he rebooted and the system now works normally it is no longer possible to diagnose the exact nature of the malfunction. Even error codes set are usually generic in nature and can point at effects rather than causes.

As to Windows 10 updates, a widely known problem, even with the very few updates so far. I suggest following Infoworld's Woody on Windows column and Susan Bradley's Windows Secrets website, both of which are required reading in today's atmosphere of defective and sometimes deceptive updates.

And finally, when rebooting a system after a similar transient and inexplicable error it's best to make sure you do a cold boot and not a warm one. Turn the machine completely off, don't just do a restart. Then power the machine back on from completely dead. The cold boot process is different from the warm boot process and will rectify more situations.

If you were a 100% about what you are saying you would know that the problem this user posted about is caused by cold booting but with the wake by lan still turned on

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by DragonRider

If you were a 100% about what you are saying you would know that the problem this user posted about is caused by cold booting but with the wake by lan still turned on

Just had to quote that so people could actually believe how little sense your post made.

First, the user did not say whether he was cold booting or warm booting. Therefore it is impossible to make the statement "the problem this user posted about is caused by cold booting." And what "but with the wake by lan still turned on" must be some bizarre output by Google Translate. There is no way short of a clandestine spyware you installed in his system that you could know what his wake on lan status is. (LAN means local area network) This kind of problem happens all the time in computers that are not connected to a LAN and which have wake on LAN disabled in what used to be called a BIOS.

And again, making fun of my distinction between cold booting and warm booting reveals a troubling lack of knowledege from someone claiming authoritative knowledge.

Cold boot vs warm boot from the Microsoft website. This is a bit dated but contains the important information that with a warm boot not all settings are reinitialized. If your error is there, a warm boot will not fix the problem. This article is not the source of my knowledge in this matter, nor does it contain the entirety of my knowledge in the matter, but it does provide a basis for further research by those interested in understanding on their own.

[DragonRider]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Just had to quote that so people could actually believe how little sense your post made.

First, the user did not say whether he was cold booting or warm booting. Therefore it is impossible to make the statement

In trying to make yourself look superior you failed the only reason for the fault causing the system to
Keep turning back on when told to shut down by the user is because he has turned off the “fast Boot” option but didn’t know about also turning off the “Wake by LAN” option in the Bios settings.
So his machine is already set to Cold Boot Try reading all the words.

[Jimbuna]

Thanks guys, this thread is of immense value to a great many here, myself included. Well certainly the parts appertaining to the computer related issues.

[Onkel Neal]

Ok, I don't know why there's so much animosity over this topic, but I am closing this thread.