Right click 8.1 'start' button does nothing

Question

Hi;

Upgraded from windows store (original 8.0 clean install) to 8.1.  Everything worked fine, except the windows start button does not respond to a right mouse click.  Left button works fine (switches between desktop and start menu), Right mouse clicks works as expected on every other object.  I don't have any of the windows 8.1 start screen navigation settings checked  (I.E. stop using the start screen).

Ideas?

Answer 1

Dark Templar 2,

-Are you facing this issue in Microsoft account or local account?

Answer 2

hello

i tried all of these solution but the issue is still persists for me!? im tired of this problem, any other solution!?

here my WinX folder(as admin user), [WinX folder size: 19.8 kb]:

Answer 3

maybe this is the answer I'm looking for, but I don't know where to add these shortcut lines

Answer 4

Forgot to mention: this is the 3rd windows 8.1 update I have done thus far;  1 was on a system running the 8.1 preview, 2 was on a system running windows 8.0 from a clean install (just as this 3rd system).

Both of the previous updates had no issues.

Answer 5

Created a non-administrator account, the problem is not there, right mouse click pulls up the expected menu of options.

Method 1 changed nothing for the admin account used to apply the upgrade.

Method 2: Because I can't right click the start button and pull up the advanced options menu (and windows key + x does not work either), I had to go to the start menu, search on command, then right click and select run as administrator the command prompt option.

Ran sfc, got this result:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]

(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.

Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some

of them. Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For

example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. Note that logging is currently not

supported in offline servicing scenarios.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

So it appears I have corruption of some sort that impacts the administrator account.  I will dig into this and see if I can figure out what is going on.

thanks