Windows 10: Corrupt Start Menu entries after Windows 10 Upgrade to Version 1909

Hi,

I recently encountered an issue after Windows 10 Upgrade to version 1909. Start Menu entries for Modern Apps like Maps or Fotos did not show up with their normal name, but only with a cryptic string. Also the Icons of these Apps were gone:





I quickly found out that all these Apps were blocked in our environment by a Applocker Policy. We have also blocked the Store, so no App can update itself via the Store at the moment. It is planned to introduce a Enterprise Store soon.


For troubleshooting reasons, I disabled Applocker on some clients and after I clicked on one of the App entries in the Start Menu, the Name of the App was refreshed including the Icon! Event more interesting: All other broken Apps did refresh as well, so after some seconds, Start Menu looked ok. So it turned out that the apps themselves were ok, only their Shortcuts in the Start Menu were broken.

No I have two questions: How can I avoid this corruption of the App entries in the future? And how can I fix the startmenu on already corrupted devices?


My plan is to 1 temporarily disable the Applocker policy, 2 run some remediation stuff on the client and 3 apply the Applocker policy again.


Step 1 and 3 are easy, I'm just missing the remediation stuff ;-


Manually running Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$$_.InstallLocation\AppXManifest.xml”} helped on some devices, but not on all of them...


If someone could help me with a hint, this would be great.



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Windows 10 Start menu issue

Maybe this can help re Pin to start mate.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ndows-10/2d5507fb-939b-4d53-98a8-78e1ab93adde

 

Corrupted Start Menu

I upgraded to 1909 yesterday, and, among other things, the tiling operation of Start Menus is corrupted.

For random tiles, they either don't work and/or cannot be moved, or some shortcuts are not successfully pinned. They either do or don't show up in the apps list on the left, but even if they do, there is no option to pin.

So I restored a clean, reliable Macrium backup, Win 10 1507, with a working start menu, and upgraded to 1903, and I have the same problem.

Is there a solution to this?
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I just found and ran the Start Menu Troubleshooter.

Here's the report but I don't know what to do about it. There is no way to copy it. I made images

Attachment 256179Attachment 256180Attachment 256181Attachment 256182

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Windows 10 Professional (x64) Build 18362.449 (1903/May 2019 Update)

 

windows 10 worth the upgrade?

Did u try right clicking and select add to start menu?

When did AMD release DX12 drivers?