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I fucking hate windows 10. - right now, for no apparent reason, when I am in the middle of trying to complete a bullshit assignment for university, the start menu just shits the bed, can't find notepad.exe can't find shit, and I've just wasted about an hour trying to troubleshoot it, useless excuse of an Operating system; the servers at Micro$oft are probably down or they lost the copy they have of my hard drive, I don't know man, I just don't fucking know.

I never pinned notepad to my start menu because I got used to typing the executable name in the Start menu like I did back when I used DOS.

Troubleshooting:

Did you turn it off and on again? - yes, fuck you.

Along with a slew of other hacky things that make the on\off meme not even ironic anymore.

I shouldn't have to be editing my system registry just to get a basic function to work.

I am sorry if I sound rude in this post, I'm stressed out because I'm trying to finish something for a deadline, and I am experienced enough to know that things don't just stop working without rhyme or reason, but it seems to be a culture that everyone's accepted with Windows 10, and I don't understand why...

For some restoration of sanity, Windows +R is working, so I can bring up the run dialogue box and type in notepad.exe, that gives me back some functionality on my system, but there is so much abstraction in a modern Windows operating system that the majority of applications that I am trying to run I do not know their exact location on my hard drive, I don't know any other way of starting them other than clicking on them from the start menu or typing their name in the search box like I normally do.

I made a new local account, and the start menu seems to be working on that account, so something in my user profile has corrupted.

On another note, it takes like 5 minutes just to make a local user account without an email address because I have to skim through a heap of dialog options but also it takes another 5 minutes because of that "Hi,", "We're happy you're here", "we're setting things up for you" animation...

I did some more reading (second page of google this time!), this website here:

https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-search-down-many-showing-blank-box-instead-search-results

There seems to have been a global outage, or it affected quite a number of computers...

To fix it you just gotta Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like “*SystemApps*”} | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”} in to the PowerShell...

"My Goodness Why Didn't I Think Of That!"

Update:

I can't believe it was a simple Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like “*SystemApps*”} | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”} in to the PowerShell to fix it, felt like such a fool for not thinking of it sooner.

Let me just get on the horn to grandma and tell her she's gotta Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like “*SystemApps*”} | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”} in to the PowerShell, that'll fixed up her start menu too! - I'm sure, because there's no way to remote access her computer, and she lives about an hour away, I'll be able to talk her through it on the phone, you know, because she knows all about Command Prompts and PowerShells etc.

On another note, for me, this experience it did highlight how unreliable and fragile the Windows 10 operating system has become, glitches like this and the fact that Microsoft is pushing updates down our throats, make me want to start searching for an alternative, but not something like Linux or OSX, I liked windows because it was a dumb OS, not like the Dumb OS it has become now, but the dumb OS of yesteryear like XP and win 7 that didn't rely so heavily on being connected to the internet. - win XP for that matter.

The writing is on the wall it's only going to get worse, why the fuck are there ads in my solitaire?