I was having this odd issue where if I right-clicked the speaker in my windows 11 tasktray, the popup menu:  

I couldn't click on any of the options. 

I also couldn't type in the search field on start menu or taskbar.

I uninstalled START 11 (keeping my settings) and all issues were resolved.

I then reinstalled START 11... wait, rebooting... Ill be back to tell you what happened... 

UPDATE:

After rebooting, search works, but I can now no longer click on those sound options again, very weird.