Windows 10 Insider Preview start menu broken

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GalanB

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Parallels Desktop has been working great for me on all the Windows 10 Technical Previews, but recently, starting I think with build 10061 and now for sure with build 10074, it seems that Parallels Tools is breaking the functionality of the Start Menu as well as Search / "Cortana" field. On a fresh install they work for awhile, but then after a couple Windows updates happen and Tools "reasserts" itself or perhaps re-installs, it breaks it. You can no longer use the bottom bar at all.

Any idea when build 10074 or beyond will be supported again? Or is there a workaround I could try? I tweaked a few config values pre-installation and thought maybe I had it, but then as I said, after awhile it broke it. (And I know they're also doing some A/B testing on the Start Menu, with 50% of the people getting a special version, so maybe that's conflicting with your Tools?)

Some registrations for extensions also appear *perhaps* to not be working, as some things can't launch, but I don't know yet if that is related to Parallels or Tools.

Thanks,
Galan
 
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Disabled nested virtualization keeped me going since my last comment with only 3 cases of loosing the menu in so many weeks, however on Monday after sleep it broke for good and reboot or alternate user, that I had pre-created, could only get a black screen and no start bar at all.
I had to restore from a saved snapshot, so if you have a working system, make sure you snapshot it!
 
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Another voice checking in, MBP Retina 2012, p 10.2.1, Windows 10130 Enterprise, Mac OS 10.10 and 10.11 b2
Nested virtualization off + DX9 seems to be more stable.
 
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Having exactly the same issue...MBP Retina 2014 with the latest version of Windows 10 and Parallels. Tried all sorts of Hardware combinations but the start menu does not work.
 
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I'm having the same issues with Parallels Desktop 11.2.0 (32581). I've switched to Direct X9 and disabled nested virtualization. I have installed Start10 as a workaround for the Windows Start menu not working but any time any of the universal apps are run (including Settings, VPN, ....) the system freezes up for about 20 seconds.
 
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