Windows 10 Windows 10 Start Button Still not working on all domain computers after hours of troubleshooting - What's the real issue here?

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We have dozens of hours into dealing with this with various customers. I'd like Microsoft to actually acknowledge this is a fundamental problem in Windows 10 and resolve it. There are many various things people are told to try. Here's our list. And no luck.


Logged into computer with user, no start menu functionality, no Cortana. CTL-ALT-DEL opens menu and I chose switch user

Logged in as Domain admin

NO start menu functionality.



Created new Organizational Unit in Active Directory and moved computer to this OU. Blocked inheritance to this OU.



Reviewed domain policy and created two policies, one for drive maps, and one for Shortcuts.



Applied “Drive Maps” and “Shortcuts” Group Policies explicitly to the Win10+ OU.



Executed dcGPOfix on domain controller to restore default domain and default domain controller policy to default



Reviewed local security policy to see if there are any custom entries. Cleaned up some.



Restarted endpoint.

Same issue.



Removed computer from domain, local login as administrator

Works as expected.



Removed old account profiles. Joined computer to domain and placed it into new OU with inheritance blocked. Restarted computer and logged in as domain administrator.

No Start Menu, Same issue.



Reviewed online posts and was unable to find anything that helped.

windows 10 start menu domain - Google Search

Went through all links on the first 4 pages...



Tried to look at Registry permissions but the specific entries described are not in the registry on this computer.



Looked for custom registry key where Dell has a script that runs to delete a key/restart to work around this issue. Key does not exist on this computer.



Verified no AD auditing was enabled



Ensured Windows Firewall is enabled



Modified the default domain policy, adding the computer account to it, in addition to authenticated users.

Same issue.



Re-applied GP, restarted

Same issue.



Don't see any access denied errors in Process Monitor.

Would be nice to know what to filter for.



Executed powershell script (Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} ) and restarted.

Same issue



Copied the file ‘C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy’ to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy’. Restarted

Same Issue.



Started Application Identity service.

Same Issue



Searched AppLockers and found nothing there that could be causing this.



Located a tool from Microsoft to repair the start menu issue, downloaded and executed...http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/2/2/F22D5FDB-59CD-4275-8C95-1BE17BF70B21/startmenu.diagcab

This tool failed to complete after more than 14 hours!

Same issue



Any helpful ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Information I've seen on this community is basically a repeat of what I've done above.


Thank you,

David

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