Start Button and admin rights not working

[Guest /u/claggypants]

I am losing my mind trying to troubleshoot this issue so could really do with a different perspective as I'm going round in circles.

 

We have a 2012r2 jump box (will be eventually migrated to 2022) on which my start button stopped working. I was using the server one day fine but when I logged on the next all my icons had disappeared from the desktop, the start button and task bar were unresponsive.

 

As this is a domain joined machine I deleted the user profile, cleared out the registry of any reference to my user ID and the SID. Logged back in and the desktop had returned to normal, task bar working again but the start button doesn't respond on mouse-over or to clicks. If I move the task bar to the top or sides of the screen the button responds to the mouse-over but will not bring the start menu up if I click on it. This is happenening to my account only, all the other admins accounts are working as normal.

 

Next step was to do all of the above again, delete the account from the domain and try again. Exactly the same results. I can launch certain things via the task manager including launching programs with elevated permissions but if I try to change certain things such as permissions on a folder I get access denied. This is only happening on this one server and all of the others in the domain work absolutely fine with no issues.

 

This is driving me absolutely insane now and I've started to think (out of desperation and pure paranoia) that one of the admins is pranking me because I cannot get this resolved. I can create another admin account with a different username and that works but I don't want to - I want to get to the bottom of this and get it fixed properly.

 

Has anyone seen anything like this before or has an idea of something that might help me troubleshoot?

 

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