{"id":18336,"date":"2022-05-30T03:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T03:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=18336"},"modified":"2022-05-30T03:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T03:38:46","slug":"restart-start-menu-in-windows-11-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/restart-start-menu-in-windows-11-10\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Methods to Restart Start Menu in Windows 11 \/ 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

What to do if Start Menu stops working all of a sudden? Starting with Windows 10, Start Menu has been moved out of File Explorer, and it appears as a standalone process (StartMenuExperienceHost.exe<\/code>). If the Start Menu freezes up or becomes unresponsive, here are 3 simple methods to restart Start Menu in Windows 11 \/ 10.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Restart Start Menu Using Task Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n

Press the Ctrl<\/strong> + Shift<\/strong> + Esc<\/strong> keys together to bring up Task Manager<\/a>. Select the Users<\/strong> tab, and then click the small arrow next to your account.<\/p>\n

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Choose the “Start<\/code>” process from the list, and click End task<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The Start Menu process will stop and then start automatically.<\/p>\n

Method 2: Restart Start Menu Using Windows PowerShell<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open Windows PowerShell as administrator<\/a>, and then execute the below command:
\nStop-Process -Name \"StartMenuExperienceHost\" -Force<\/code><\/p>\n

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The Start Menu process will exit and restart automatically.<\/p>\n

Method 3: Restart Start Menu Using Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Launch Command Prompt as administrator<\/a>, and run the following command:
\ntaskkill \/f \/im StartMenuExperienceHost.exe<\/code><\/p>\n

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You’ll get the message that says the StartMenuExperienceHost.exe<\/code> process has been terminated. After a very short time, the Start Menu process will start on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What to do if Start Menu stops working all of a sudden? Starting with Windows 10, Start Menu has been moved out of File Explorer, and it appears as a standalone process (StartMenuExperienceHost.exe). If the Start Menu freezes up or becomes unresponsive, here are 3 simple methods to restart Start Menu in Windows 11 \/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,4713],"tags":[4905,4906,4907],"class_list":["post-18336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-11","tag-restart-start-menu-windows-10","tag-restart-start-menu-windows-11","tag-windows-start-menu-not-working"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18336"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18347,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18336\/revisions\/18347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}