A caveat (Destiny)

by scarab , Monday, August 03, 2015, 16:53 (3499 days ago) @ red robber

Win10 is pretty flaky at the moment.

Today I lost the use of my start menu and there were no context menus when right clicking on any part of the shell.

I tried restarting several times. I tried creating a new account but login failed with a message about a broken start menu button and no Cortana.

The shell then died when I plugged in a USB stick and clicked on it in Windows Explorer. The desktop went black and there was no way out except a hard power down.

On restart the desktop was black and there was noting on the taskbar except a non-functional start menu button, the arrow that should reveal hidden notifications (but didn't) and the new notification msg icon. Nothing worked, there was just a wait cursor over the taskbar.

I gave up in disgust.

I went out and when I came back I restarted Windows (I'm the eternal optimist). I had a desktop background and in the course of ten minutes the lost features came back to life. Nothing I did fixed it and I don't know how long things will remain fixed.

So I'd hold off unless you don't need to use your computer and quite like angst.