The problem has aroused suddenly and without apparent explanation.
I was just adding a shortcut to the start menu (via the AppData way) and then
suddenly the start screen became empty, even without the drawing. The start
screen didn't feature any icons, just the plain colour (but the lateral bars
work correctly).<o
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You can search for Applications, but they won't appear
(only the number of results), and without the title. The fact is also that you
can access the "all apps" right clicking the start menu, but it may
be empty. This behaviour is repeated on safe mode - but there you can see, at
least at boot up, "Start" and your username - and access it's options
-.<o></o>
I am not willing to reformat this pc again, already
did once because of the amazing Update feature from Windows 7 to Windows 8 that
was completely * because of drivers problems. I have a pair of ideas, but so far
have not been able to prove them:<o></o>
a) It might be able a problem of Icon Cache
corruption, having observed the way it Works - looks for changes on the files
on the start menu folder -. Even though, I don't know where to find this file.<o></o>
b) Less probably, but it might be an error regarding
file permissions. I personally doubt this one as running explorer using
Administrative permissions doesn't solve the problem.<o></o>
As a side note I must note that there are not any
Event Logs regarding this, so I am completely clueless.<o></o>
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I was just adding a shortcut to the start menu (via the AppData way) and then
suddenly the start screen became empty, even without the drawing. The start
screen didn't feature any icons, just the plain colour (but the lateral bars
work correctly).<o
></o>You can search for Applications, but they won't appear
(only the number of results), and without the title. The fact is also that you
can access the "all apps" right clicking the start menu, but it may
be empty. This behaviour is repeated on safe mode - but there you can see, at
least at boot up, "Start" and your username - and access it's options
-.<o
></o>I am not willing to reformat this pc again, already
did once because of the amazing Update feature from Windows 7 to Windows 8 that
was completely * because of drivers problems. I have a pair of ideas, but so far
have not been able to prove them:<o
></o>a) It might be able a problem of Icon Cache
corruption, having observed the way it Works - looks for changes on the files
on the start menu folder -. Even though, I don't know where to find this file.<o
></o>b) Less probably, but it might be an error regarding
file permissions. I personally doubt this one as running explorer using
Administrative permissions doesn't solve the problem.<o
></o>As a side note I must note that there are not any
Event Logs regarding this, so I am completely clueless.<o
></o>View the full article