Windows 11 is an operating system that no one expected and when Microsoft announced Windows 10, it gave us all the impression that the said operating system will be the last and that it will be updated through an operating system like approach. service, i.e. based on major and minor updates this would keep it “fresh” and cutting-edge in features and support for advanced technologies.

The thing is, for one reason or another, Microsoft decided to bring back the OS model as a product and released Windows 11 and he seems to have “liked” this approach. because the company is said to be working on Windows 12, a next-generation operating system that will hit the market sometime in 2024, at least in theory, since all the information we have about it is anecdotal.

It is a fact that Windows 11 had a bumpy start and that it was plagued by problems, bugs and major bugs during its first weeks on the market, which were gradually overcome. However, this operating system has not yet reached a fully mature stage. due to errors that appear too oftenand this will affect the Start menu this time.

Microsoft itself has acknowledged that the Start menu stopped working on some Windows computers because, in theory the KB5014668 update creates some bug that prevents it from being activated. In short, the Windows 11 start menu won’t start, a pun with a touch of humor on a problem that cannot be solved in a simple way, because it happens whether we click on the icon or press the Windows key on our keyboard.

While we wait for Microsoft to decide to release a definitive solution in the form of a patch, we have an alternative temporary solution which was given by the Redmond giant himself and which I share with you as it is, i.e. with a direct translation:

“This issue is resolved known issue return (KIR). Please note that resolution may take up to 24 hours to automatically propagate to consumer devices and unmanaged enterprise devices. Restarting your Windows device can help apply the resolution to your device faster. For company-managed devices that have installed the affected update and are experiencing this issue, they can resolve this issue by installing and configuring a special Group Policy. The special Group Policy can be found in Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> KB5014668 220721_04201 Revert Known Issue -> Windows 11 (original version). For information on how to implement and configure this special Group Policy, see How to use Group Policy to implement rollback for known issues.

It looks like update KB5014668 was beset with problemsin fact, one of the most famous for its irony was that it was designed to solve a bug that prevented an operating system update, but ended up suffering a problem that caused the update itself to fail to install.