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Win10 Action Center won't open on wife's desktop PC

mikeymikec

mikeymikec

Lifer
I installed Win10 1607 64-bit recently (clean install on an SSD), and she's had this problem a few times now. It's resolvable by rebooting (or - I think - signing out and back in again), but that sucks as a solution. As it's a desktop, it spends most of the time in sleep mode rather than being shut down, and my wife likes to leave stuff running.

I'm aware that there was an issue with Win10 RTM whereby nothing on the taskbar worked, but I can click on the Windows Defender icon, and Classic Start Menu is working fine. Any ideas?

I'm just running dism /restorehealth on it at the moment.

Admittedly I'd place a fair bit that the so-very-interesting single notification is going to be that Defender did a scan and didn't find anything, but it would be nice if the Action Center actually worked.
 
Wait for the creators update, should be in the next month or so. There has been alot of Action
Center issues in the last builds. I think they have them fixed now. For reading fodder go to the
Feedback Hub. Personally I have had very few problems with the preview builds other than exposing hardware issues
 
I have seen this occasionally (maybe, not sure it is the same thing). I am able to quickly fix it by restarting "Widows Explorer" from task manager (just right click the process and select restart).
 
Interesting things happen to technology that my wife is near it, I've never quite understood it. For example, her machine rarely engages in power-saving like switching the monitor off or going to sleep when it's supposed to, but sometimes it does. It did the same on Vista and Win10. The first time I noticed that LibreOffice's save dialog causes OneDrive's "welcome and setup OneDrive" window to appear every time was on her computer even though I've set it up at least a dozen times on other PCs on Win10, and now I see it every time with LO on Win10 since. I've very occasionally seen the Action Center malfunction on Win10, but it seems to do it as often as not on my wife's PC.
 
mikeymikec said:
Interesting things happen to technology that my wife is near it, I've never quite understood it. For example, her machine rarely engages in power-saving like switching the monitor off or going to sleep when it's supposed to, but sometimes it does. It did the same on Vista and Win10. The first time I noticed that LibreOffice's save dialog causes OneDrive's "welcome and setup OneDrive" window to appear every time was on her computer even though I've set it up at least a dozen times on other PCs on Win10, and now I see it every time with LO on Win10 since. I've very occasionally seen the Action Center malfunction on Win10, but it seems to do it as often as not on my wife's PC.
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If its not hardware failure, then its drivers misbehaving. Does Action Centre pop up if you remove Classic Start Menu?
 
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