Windows button not working every time, when clicked with the mouse.

[AOne]

I have a new problem since few days. My Windows button is not working every time when I click with the mouse on it. Obviously, the Explorer.exe is crashing somehow. The strangest thing is, the menu pops up when pressing the keyboard Windows button. Probably something with the latest Windows updates. After one or two restarts it's all back to good. Tried with sfc scannow, but to no avail. Anybody with the same issue?

 

[R00kie]

it used to be the case with 1607 builds and older, havent seen it for a while now.

The trick is to kill the explorer.exe task and restart it again, had a batch file just for that.

 

[AOne]

So it appears to be a comeback of an old problem...

 

[Candor]

Yeah it can be an Update or Drivers related.

There's a few other system related scans you can do that might help...

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[AOne]

It's actually quite odd, as after a restart (usually 2 in a row) it's all fixed, until the next day (I'm always leaving my laptop on sleep mode over the night and make a restart on the next morning before starting to work). So, it's not a constant issue.