{"id":10911,"date":"2016-03-28T15:52:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=10911"},"modified":"2016-03-28T18:40:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T22:40:59","slug":"help-my-windows-10-start-menu-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/help-my-windows-10-start-menu-disappeared\/","title":{"rendered":"Help! My Windows 10 Start Menu Disappeared!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Help! My Windows 10 Start Menu Disappeared!<\/h1>\n

Numerous times now, we’ve received emails from people wanting help because their Start menu on Windows 10 disappeared. Many times this will happen after an update, so it’s natural for people to think something went wrong and they start menu is gone forever.<\/p>\n

But not so fast! Not so fast!<\/p>\n

Have you ever heard of “Tablet Mode”? Tablet Mode on Windows 10 makes Windows 10 look like Windows 8.1. Tablet mode is made for smart phones, and, of course, tablets. So if you’re using a desktop or laptop PC and you switch it to “Table Mode” or it happens accidentally, your Start menu will be gone with the Wind…ows. And frankly Scarlet, you will give a darn!<\/p>\n

Here’s what Windows 10 looks like in Tablet mode (the tiles on your computer may be larger & wider than mine, mine are all customized):<\/p>\n

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No. Not woe is you. It’s easy to fix, honest.<\/p>\n

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Just left of the clock (assuming your taskbar is at the bottom, if not you’ll get it) you’ll see an icon that looks like a callout or blurb or a shoutout – whatever. It’s circled in the screen shot above in green and red. See? \u00a0Click on this icon and you’ll see a menu. The items that are turned on are brighter than the ones that are turned off. (Yes, EB! Like a light bulb. Light bulbs are not very bright when they’re turned off – no go back and sit down, EB!) So if you click the icon (circled above) and you see “Tablet mode” is brighter than some of the tiles, then it’s turned on.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to turn Tablet mode off. Just click on it. See how the Tablet mode icon seems dimmer now?<\/p>\n

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Dim icon = turned off. Bright icon=turned on. See? And when Tablet mode is turned off, your Start menu and your taskbar icons are back in all their glory.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes we accidentally turn on Tablet mode without realizing it, and perhaps sometimes after an update it gets turned on by accident. Either way, if your Start menu and taskbar icons have disappeared, do take a minute to make sure Tablet mode is not enabled.<\/p>\n

Now if you’re using a Windows 10 smart phone or tablet, you should be in Tablet mode. If you’re using a desktop or laptop PC you should not be in Tablet mode unless you are:<\/p>\n

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  1. A Masochist<\/li>\n
  2. A big fan of Windows 8.x<\/li>\n
  3. You don’t care because you’ve had too much wine.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Help! My Windows 10 Start Menu Disappeared! Numerous times now, we’ve received emails from people wanting help because their Start menu on Windows 10 disappeared. Many times this will happen after an update, so it’s natural for people to think something went wrong and they start menu is gone forever. But not so fast! Not so fast! Have\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10915,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions\/10915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}