I'm using a lenovo G510 preinstalled with win 8.1. I recently upgraded to win 10. Everything was working fine till I installed malwarebytes and ran a scan revealing several potentially unwanted programs. I went ahead with the cleanup and reboot only to find that the task bar start and cortana weren't working. Later I also found that several windows apps like edge, reader etc weren't working either.
Iv'e tried the following-
1) Reset PC and keep my files. The problem still persisted.
2) Reinstall win apps package using powershell. The operation ran smoothly but this too didn't fix the problem.
3) Ran DISM tool DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
After running the first command it said that no store corruption was detected.
4) Tried to create a new account on the PC. This Didn't work since every time I clicked on the option in setting to create a new account nothing happened. I guess since this is a windows feature it too must be malfunctioning.
I really don't want to do a full factory reset especially since win 10 isn't free anymore. I also don't want to be stuck using win 8.1. It lacks the level of polish that win 10 has. I also don't have any restore points.
Iv'e tried the following-
1) Reset PC and keep my files. The problem still persisted.
2) Reinstall win apps package using powershell. The operation ran smoothly but this too didn't fix the problem.
3) Ran DISM tool DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
After running the first command it said that no store corruption was detected.
4) Tried to create a new account on the PC. This Didn't work since every time I clicked on the option in setting to create a new account nothing happened. I guess since this is a windows feature it too must be malfunctioning.
I really don't want to do a full factory reset especially since win 10 isn't free anymore. I also don't want to be stuck using win 8.1. It lacks the level of polish that win 10 has. I also don't have any restore points.