{"id":23162,"date":"2022-03-17T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=23162"},"modified":"2022-03-17T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:09:09","slug":"if-windows-starts-behaving-poorly-or-windows-features-go-missing-try-these-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/if-windows-starts-behaving-poorly-or-windows-features-go-missing-try-these-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"If Windows Starts Behaving Poorly or Windows Features Go Missing, Try These Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>If Windows Starts Behaving Poorly or Windows Features Go Missing, Try These Tips<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Whether you&#8217;re using Windows 10 or Windows 11, sometimes. for no reason at all, some Windows features may stop working. The Windows start menu and\/or the Settings app may stop working. search, Windows Store \/ Windows Store Apps, or other Windows 10 or Windows 11 features may suddenly stop working. Usually, this happens after a version update or after a cumulative Windows update, but sometimes it happens randomly and for no apparent reason at all. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The first thing you should do if you notice Windows 10 or Windows 11 isn\u2019t working the way it should or if some Windows features stop working, is this:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">1. Shut down your PC completely.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">2. Wait 4 or 5 minutes.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">3. Turn on your computer.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">4. Wait while Windows 10 loads completely.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">5. Try your computer and check to see if you still have problems.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If that does not work, here\u2019s something you can try that has worked for us many times in getting Windows computers working correctly again and all Windows 10 and\/or Windows 11 features functioning as they should.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">1.) Type CMD in the Taskbar search.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">2.) When Command Prompt appears at the top, right-click it and select \u201cRun as administrator\u201d.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/admin.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"427\" height=\"844\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">3.) Enter the following commands, one by one, and press Enter after each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span class=\"auto-style55\">DISM.exe \/Online \/Cleanup-image \/Scanhealth<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span class=\"auto-style55\">DISM.exe \/online \/cleanup-image \/restorehealth<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span class=\"auto-style55\">sfc \/scannow<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Each command will take some time to run, so be patient. When all commands have been completed, restart your computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If all went well,\u00a0 your Windows problems should be resolved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If, after you\u2019ve tried the above, you still have major Windows problems, you have the option to run a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-reset-windows-10-keep-your-personal-files\/\">Windows 10 Reset<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/fix-major-windows-10-problems-by-doing-a-repair-installation\/\">Windows 10 repair installation.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Or if you&#8217;re using Windows 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/all-about-system-restore-system-reset-and-factory-reset-in-windows-10-and-windows-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see our Windows 11 reset options tutorial.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; If Windows Starts Behaving Poorly or Windows Features Go Missing, Try These Tips Whether you&#8217;re using Windows 10 or Windows 11, sometimes. for no reason at all, some Windows features may stop working. The Windows start menu and\/or the Settings app may stop working. search, Windows Store \/ Windows Store Apps, or other Windows 10 or\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/if-windows-starts-behaving-poorly-or-windows-features-go-missing-try-these-tips\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,4299,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162"}],"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=23162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23169,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions\/23169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}