Windows 10 issue

[Uzuda]

Hi all.

Recently, I reinstalled my windows 7 OS as I have a new SSD, and after performing all updates to windows 7, I could finally "upgrade" to windows 10 Home edition.

It was going well for a while, and it was running very smooth... until one moment when I was on chrome and skype, and I went to close chrome but it remained in my taskbar for ages and wouldn't close, I was still communicating to friends in skype, but nothing would work except from the settings menu, system tray, notifications box, and task view button. the start menu wouldn't open, and I couldn't shutdown or restart.

The only fix that I know of at the moment, is to perform a hard restart and then everything would work fine... for a few minutes/hours (time would vary)

If anyone has any tips or advice, please help...

 

[SieB]

This happened to me a couple of weeks ago, it turned out that my Windows 10 key had been blocked by MS (due to me changing hardware) so my copy of Windows was not activated and that is what was causing the problems.

I couldn't reactivate Windows using the upgrade key I got from my Windows 8.1 upgrade because it was locked to my hardware, so I had to do a fresh install. Although I did a fresh install with a key I bought from Reddit because I didn't want to have to go through this crap again just because I changed one piece of hardware. I only changed my GPU and that was from one 970 to another 970 as well.

Check if your copy of Windows is activated, that might be why, It was for me anyway.

 

[Uzuda]

This happened to me a couple of weeks ago, it turned out that my Windows 10 key had been blocked by MS (due to me changing hardware) so my copy of Windows was not activated and that is what was causing the problems.

I couldn't reactivate Windows using the upgrade key I got from my Windows 8.1 upgrade because it was locked to my hardware, so I had to do a fresh install. Although I did a fresh install with a key I bought from Reddit because I didn't want to have to go through this crap again just because I changed one piece of hardware. I only changed my GPU and that was from one 970 to another 970 as well.

Check if your copy of Windows is activated, that might be why, It was for me anyway.

Yeah, when I go into computer properties, it says "widows is activated" with the product ID posted below it.

Would it be worth trying to reset my install?

 

[SieB]

Would it be worth trying to reset my install?

Might as well give it a try if all else fails
The only thing that fixed it for me was doing a fresh install, I didn't bother trying resetting though because I was using a different Windows key.

 

[kbalaz]

there is an issue with Skype right now being down everywhere. Not sure if this is your issue or not, but check it out before you do anything to drastic.

 

[Uzuda]

Might as well give it a try if all else fails
The only thing that fixed it for me was doing a fresh install, I didn't bother trying resetting though because I was using a different Windows key.

I tried that, and still no luck...

I'm not quite sure what to try :/

there is an issue with Skype right now being down everywhere. Not sure if this is your issue or not, but check it out before you do anything to drastic.

yeah the skype servers were down yesterday evening

 

[Kaapstad]

I tried using the free Win10 upgrade on 2 of my PCs.

It was total garbage when installed with things not working.

In the end I bought a couple of copies on USB sticks, clean install and no problems since.

 

[Uzuda]

I tried using the free Win10 upgrade on 2 of my PCs.

It was total garbage when installed with things not working.

In the end I bought a couple of copies on USB sticks, clean install and no problems since.

I reverted back to windows 7... I could try the clean install method... does it ask for the windows activation key? if so... would I just use the one from my windows 7 disk?

 

[Kilbane]

I reverted back to windows 7... I could try the clean install method... does it ask for the windows activation key? if so... would I just use the one from my windows 7 disk?

It will give you the option to skip adding a product key, skip it the activate once Windows is installed. Worked fine on mine for a clean install.

 

[Tolemac]

As above post said just skip activation and you will be fine and dandy

 

[MajorMajor]

Can you start the task manager? Maybe try restarting the Explorer process.

 

[TheHunter]

this will restore your start button functionality


open powershell (run as admin) and copy-paste this text


Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

close power shell and try to open start menu..

if it still doesn't work try this, again run powershell as admin and type in this, just copy-paste and press enter

$manifest = (Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsStore).InstallLocation + '\AppxManifest.xml' ; Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $manifest



*Close the Powershell window
* Reboot