travisallen02

The following link explains how to stop Start8 from automatically installing in a Parallels VM. http://kb.parallels.com/en/116716

I did try installing and upgrading to Start10, but I wanted the stock Windows 10 Start menu and not the Start10 one so that didn't help anything. Thank you for clarifying that, Neil. It had been so long since I had installed Start8 that I didn't recall its association with Parallels. I'm just posting this for people who have the same issue as I did.

I can now unequivocally say that Start8 was the sole cause of my issue. I reverted back to my Windows 8 system from a Parallels Desktop snapshot, and this time tried uninstalling Start8 before installing Windows 10. Start8 was exhibiting very strange behavior that I would liken to adware or spyware. Every time I would terminate the service and associated process to end the task, it would restart. Every time I would uninstall the program through the Control Panel, it would reappear upon restar

I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10 a few days ago and I have never been able to get the new start menu to work. It was pretty easy to point out the culprit, which is Start8. I have tried a number of different fixes online (the start menu not working seems to be a widespread issue). I then found another user that had the same problem that I did. He has Start8 installed on Windows 8, and when he upgraded to Windows 10, the new Start Menu did not function. Start8 did not function either. I