Fixing The Error: Can’t Right-Click The Start Menu On Windows 10

After Windows 10, many users complained about many errors and issues they faced right after they updated their older version of windows to windows 10. One of the issues was “Can’t right-click start menu on Windows 10.”

Here in this article, we’ll help you out with below given some correct methods you can try and follow to fix this issue of ‘Can’t right-click start menu on Windows 10’. Let’s start.

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Fixing The Issue Can’t Right-Click The Start Menu On Windows 10

Follow these steps to fix the issue:

Re-Check Updates

Follow these steps to resolve the error:

Press Windows Key +R, and a dialog box will pop on your screen.
Type “Control Update” and hit enter.
Windows update screen opens, click “Check for Updates,” and then download and install all pending updates.
After that, you can restart your PC and check to see if your right-click is working on the start menu.

Through Taskbar

On your PC, right-click on the taskbar and click on the swift icon, to resolve the issue.

Scan For Malware

There can be some viruses on your PC, which make the start menu and taskbar icons not accessible.

Therefore, it recommends you try and scan your PC with malware remover, which should just do the work.

Restart Windows Explorer

Here’s how you can do it:

Press Ctrl +Shift +Esc simultaneously, and it will open Task Manager.
After opening task manager, you need to find Windows Explorer under the Processes tab, and after seeing it from the list, right-click and hit on restart.
You can check if this worked by simply restarting your PC and trying right-clicking on the start menu.

Use In-Built Registry Editor

Below given are the steps you could follow by using Registry Editor:

Press Windows Key +R, Run dialog box will appear, type “regedit,” and hit enter.In the left panel, you just need to click on HKey_Local_Machine > Software > Microsoft > Windows > Current Version > ImmersiveShell > Launcher
Please right-click on the launcher, expand it to new, navigate the DWORD (32-bit) value, and click on it.
Name this newly selected DWORD as UseExperience.
Upon creating this new DWORD, double-click on it and reset its value data to 0.
Click OK after completing all the above steps.
Now restart your computer to let the process and above steps take place.
After restarting, you should be able to right-click on the start menu. This might fix your issue of; Can’t right-click the start menu on Windows 10’.

Using Windows Powershell

On the start menu, type- Windows Powershell, and open it in administrator.
Now, copy & paste the below-given command and hit enter: Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers|Foreach{Add-AppxPackage-DisableDevelopmentMode-Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}

A screen containing a list of installed packages should appear on your screen, which might hardly take 5-10 minutes. After successfully executing the command, you can try re-checking if the right click on your start menu is working.

Alternative Method

If the above steps don’t work, follow the alternative method. Following are the steps to be followed:

You need to make sure that you log in to your PC with an administrator account, and through that, you need to create an account for a new local user.
You need to access this new following path- C:\Users\New_Users_Name\AppData \Local \ Microsoft \Windows \ WinX. (Where NEW_USER_NAME is your newly created username) Select all the visible folders and just press Ctrl+C
Further, open the folder- – C:\Users\Old_Users_Name\AppData \Local \ Microsoft \Windows \ WinX. (Where OLD_USER_NAME is your account name associated with right-click start menu not working)
After that, right-click and press Ctrl+V, replacing all previous folders.

Your issue ‘Can’t right-click start menu on Windows 10’ resolves.

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Conclusion

Thus, follow these steps, and your issue of “‘Can’t right-click start menu on Windows 10″ will be resolved.

Robert Irvine

Robert Irvine, How-To Editor at Automaticable, writes tech tutorials since dial-up days. Former editor of Web User magazine, he’s also a cooking enthusiast (not the celebrity chef).