My start menu bar has stopped working in windows 7

[Guest]

Help, for some reason my start menu bar is not working. The icons are still there but wont let me click on them any ideas

 

[arges86]

does this occur on every restart?
have you tried restarting explorer when this happens?

 

[Guest]

yes, when you hover onto the start bar the moving circle starts as if its doing something but wont let me click on any icons. As soon as i go off the start bar the circle disappears so therefore cant get to my programs. Must be a common problem coz exactly the same thing has just happened to them. I think iv fixed it by putting it back to factory setting but just wondering why it did it. Any ideas

 

[arges86]

seems like something happened to the registry that caused explorer.exe to hang and not load correctly