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I had a Windows Update 2 days ago. After that, I noticed my Start Menu failed to open. In addition, the right click menu on any icons on the Taskbar, as well as the Calendar when left clicking on the clock, fail to open as well.
I am open to trying pretty much any solution short of reinstalling Windows entirely.

Using the Windows Start Menu Diagnostics Tool suggested that my "Shell Experience Host" and "Cortana" are not properly installed, and that my Tile database is corrupt, yet it failed to fix those issues.
Troubleshooting

Among other things I have tried are:

  • Restarting my computer (no change)
  • sfc /scannow and dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth (The former found some problems, but seemingly nothing related to my problem. Failed to fix the problem. Of note is that of the 5 or so times I have had this problem in the past, SFC has found way more issues, and has managed to clear this problem.)
  • Reinstalling (reregistering?) Windows Apps from Powershell (the following, as well as some variations on it: Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}) (fails for all apps, no change in my problem)

If I can help you help me by providing some logs, Event Viewer information, or whatever else, please.

Torn
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Questions before you start: What sort of update was it? Was it the upgrade to Windows version 2004? Did you do the update manually, or did Windows do it automatically?

My take on the problem: Something went wrong during the update, and it's not sure that it can be analyzed successfully or at all fixed.

What I suggest is to work around the problem:

  1. If System Restore is enables, rollback to before the update happened. (For the upgrade to Windows version 2004 you may do so in Settings.)

  2. Download the latest Windows ISO and repeat the update. The process is described in the article How to Do a Repair Install of Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade.

  3. If the problem arrives again, repeat the above, but do the Repair Install while booting in Safe mode.

  4. If the problem arrives again, then you may have to block this Windows update.

harrymc
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