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Windows button not working anymore

Globil Posted messages 27 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
Globil Posted messages 27 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello, I’m on a Windows 11 laptop, the Windows button (start, etc.) no longer works.

I’m forced to right-click to shut down, sleep and more.

I’ve tried "Terminal (Administrator)" doesn’t work?

I no longer have access to the Settings.

Is it a recent Windows update? I’d like to do a restore, but nothing works anymore.

I still have internet, mailboxes.

Thank you for reading me and helping me, if possible?

Globil


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    yclik Posted messages 3874 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   1 609
     

    Hello

    while waiting for the pros

    a shortcut to shut down

    create a new shortcut and put in the target

    %SystemRoot%\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 0
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    1. Kori-Kori Posted messages 2404 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   413
       

      Good evening,

      It could look like a session opened with a temporary profile..

      With a right-click on the Windows button you don't have access to the settings?

      Or where to find the control panel if possible.

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  2. Globil Posted messages 27 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   2
     

    Hello, thank you for your help.

    I managed to get everything working again, but it was very complicated.

    All the tips involved the settings, problem, no access to the settings.

    Command prompt asked for administrator permission, I couldn't manage that.

    I asked 1) Task Manager to open, 2) right-click on the Windows "Terminal" (admin), 3) right-click on the Windows "System" button

    I no longer remember exactly what worked to access the settings.

    Finally, after hours of hassle, I managed to reset Windows without losing my documents.

    Why did this fail? It is possible, an article from CCM explained that you could remove the Bing search engine, that's what I did, sometime later the failure!!

    If this experience can help you.

    See you later, looking forward to reading you

    Clammo

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  3. Kori-Kori Posted messages 2404 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   413
     

    Hello,

    Thank you for the feedback and it’s good to hear that everything is in order.

    Bing is the search engine of the Edge browser, which itself is an integral part of Windows. It’s wiser not to remove it but to use another engine if you prefer.

    If everything is OK, please mark as "Resolved".

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    1. brucine Posted messages 24834 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 166
       

      Hello,

      These are the "additional links" and Windows system which, as soon as there is a search, are only searched by Bing, but for some time not necessarily by Edge anymore but by the default browser (provided of course that Bing has not been removed).

      They are not strictly indispensable, but it’s a matter of taste for everyone; we may, I don’t know, have the same behavior in "home" software like Word, I can’t test because Word 2019 is at end of support and all internal help links are therefore non-operational, but same remark applies.


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  4. Globil Posted messages 27 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   2
     

    Hello, I forgot to write that the problem is resolved.

                Thank you

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