Originally Posted by Tinky

Two days running I've had a blue error message saying the start menu and Cortana are not working, sign out and we will try and fix it when you sign in again. I sign in again and everything is working, anyone have this and can it be fixed?

Originally Posted by aohna

Like millions of other I took the bait for Windows 10. All was well at first, sorted one or two problems myself (just interested/not a techie)

Just this week I noticed on powering up, entering my Microsoft 4 digit pin I arrive at my desktop with a : Critical Error Message stating / Start Menu and Cortana not working, We will try to fix this the next time you log in.
So shut down and restart absolutely fine. Yet having to log in twice is becoming a pain. Would anyone have any ideas? they would be appreciated:

Originally Posted by aohna

Thanks Snoopz for your pointers, must admit it, to me its always a bit daunting to meddle with the settings. Yet its thanks to you guys it encourages me to overcome those reservations.
This afternoon as I booted up to look into this issue, greeted with the usual message. So shut down again. Booted again and as expected no message. Notifications in the task bar flashed updates waiting to be installed. Chose to clear them first, this required restart which I did logged in MS account and through to desktop to find nothing. Booted up several times and all the way to my desktop and the gremlin of a Critical Error Message has gone. amazing???