I have a Lenovo laptop with Windows 10 installed and just recently my start menu, taskbar, and settings menus don't work and won't open?

Yeah, microsoft crewed the pooch with windows 10

Mine will work if I wait on the bar a long time.
Do you shut your machine down? Or do you just hibernate it?

I going to the task managed, ctrl +alt+delete on the background and choosing shut down, then the task bar will work for a time or 2.

Really microsoft just keeps making things worse.

Windows repair. This may have to be run from a DVD

You can refresh your PC if windows isn't running well
Start
settings
update and security
recovery
reset
choose the option to keep your files

If you can't get to this within windows you will need to make a recovery windows 10 USB. You can do this by downloading and running windows 10 media creation tool from here
You will need a working computer and a blank 8GB USB.
Once done insert the recovery USB into your Lenovo and boot off the USB. Don't choose the option to install windows 10, choose the option of repair the computer
troubleshooting
Reset
choose the option to keep your files as above