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Given that many symptoms can cause the frozen start menu to occur in Windows 10, here’s a rundown of the solutions that might work for you. You can try the top four fixes below, from merely shutting down programs to tinkering with Microsoft’s Windows Media Creation Tool. You may waste a lot of data this way as well depending on number and size of apps and games stuck on Windows 10.The good news is that there are a few solutions to a freezing Start Menu in Windows 10. If you have installed a trial app for instance, you will notice that you cannot install it again when the trial expired which in turn means that you cannot get rid of it anymore using the method. The method described above is far from ideal and you will notice that it won't work for all apps necessarily. That's right, to remove stuck apps from your PC, you need to install them anew first to be able to remove them from your device afterwards.

Repeat the process for each stuck app individually.

Once installed, open the start menu again, right-click on the newly installed application, and select uninstall from the menu.

Click on install to install the application on your system.

You will notice that "install" is listed as the option on the store page.

Third option, search for the apps' name in Windows Store to open it this way.

This opens the apps' Store page and a review overlay on top of it which you need to close.

Right-click on a stuck application, select more, and then "rate and review".

If that does not work, and you are taken to "download and updates" instead, do the following.

Click on a stuck application to open the Store listing of that app.

Open the Windows Start Menu to get a listing of all apps including stuck ones.

Now that the Store cache has been reset, it is time to remove the stuck applications.

Type shutdown /r /t 1 to restart the PC.Windows Store will be opened automatically in the end as well. The process takes a while to complete, and you will notice that it ran its course when you can input text once again on the console. This opens an elevated command prompt window after you accept the UAC prompt.Tap on the Windows-key, type cmd.exe, hold down Shift and Ctrl, and hit the Enter-key afterwards.

While they were listed in the section, they would not download, and one could not remove them either from there which means that they were stuck there as well. The applications were listed in the "downloads and updates" section of Windows Store initially, and resetting the Store cache will remove them from there. First thing you need to do is reset the Store cache.