My start button no longer responds to my mouse click. Any ideas what I can do to restore this so I can get into my start menu?

Click the "Start" button on the key board ...left of "Alt" key ....

No luck with keyboard start either. Not sure what to do next.

worth a try.......

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Home Premium with SP1 beta.
Like quite a few people I had the Broken Start Button problem - it happened
after the PC lost power. Click the Start orb and nothing happens. It's fine
if you switch it to classic mode but does nothing in normal Vista mode.

CHKDSK and SFC (as suggested in an old post) didn't help so I was resigned
to living with classic mode as I couldn't be bothered run an upgrade/repair
then have to reactivate by phone.

But then I looked in the SFC log and noticed two files couldn't be
repaired - msshsq.dll and HotStartUserAgent.dll. I replaced them with
copies from a working system (had to boot from the DVD as they are "in-use")
and the Start Button now works again. Not sure which one is to blame ...

I have the same problem. when i upgraded to SP2 my start button stopped responding to my mouse click. i tried goin back to SP1 but it still didnt work? when i try to right-click on the start orb it comes up but with three black rows at the bottom of the right-click menu? i had to download that "Vista Start Menu" just to use it again but i'd rather have the normal start menu. any help please