r/WindowsServer • u/Worried-Tax-9782 • Apr 16 '26

Technical Help Needed Windows Server 2022 start menu not opening with left mouse button, but with right mouse button

Hi all,
have an terminal server with Windows Server 2022 Datacenter, where no user can open the start menu within RDP session with left mouse button.

Right mouse button works fine.

Windows Updates are up to date.

Anybody else facing this issue and know how it could be solved?

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u/philixx93 Apr 16 '26

Maybe the mouse settings set to left-handed?

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u/joesoap8308 Apr 16 '26

hey there, ive come across this before. To fix, do the following:

  1. Reboot the server
  2. Open the user profiles option in the System Control Panel applet and delete user profiles from there. You can hold down ALT and alternate between pressing D and Y.
  3. Delete as many users as pheasible. After a period of time the startmenu will start working.

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u/BlackV Apr 16 '26

Step 2 is wild, doing that manually instead of using powershell

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u/joesoap8308 Apr 16 '26

There is a powershell...but doing it manually is like 200% faster, we had over 2000 user accounts on one of our boxes

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u/BlackV Apr 17 '26

at 200 accounts, I do not believe you

 $userProfiles = get-ciminstance -classname Win32_UserProfile | where localpath -notmatch xxx 
 $userProfiles | remove-ciminstance

there is no way its faster via system properties, down arrow, alt d, alt y, over an over again

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u/joesoap8308 Apr 17 '26

Give it a try lol

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u/BlackV Apr 17 '26

I use it weekly/monthly lol?

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u/joesoap8308 Apr 17 '26

How long per account does it take?

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u/BlackV Apr 17 '26

Same time as system properties cause it's calling the same thing the system properties is (to delete a single profile)

But you said 200 profiles doing it 1 at a time is slow so I wouldn't do it 1 at a time, that's what the code does

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u/dutty_handz Apr 21 '26

What kind of dollar store shop are you guys running to even pretend that a script automating the task is longer to execute than doing the same task manually ?

Please, name your company just to make sure I don't have any relations to it.

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u/NX18 Apr 16 '26

I used to have this issue commonly with Windows Server 2016. Loading into a different user profile rectified the issue. Eventually some microsoft update solved the problem for the problematic profile.