Windows 10: Start Menu phone link flyout only shows up on 1 of my 3 devices.

Start Menu phone link flyout only shows up on 1 of my 3 devices. And its the oldest of my devices. There is no option to show phone link in start menu in settings. And, there is no registry entry for the phone link start menu flyout. How do I get my other 3 devices to show the start menu phone link sidebar or flyout?

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How do I get flyouts to show on start menu items?

Welcome John!

1. Right-click the Taskbar and select Properties.



2. Select the Start Menu tab, and click Customise




3. Tick the options you require as shown.

 

How do I get flyouts to show on start menu items?

Thanks guys, I got it now. Note that these are NOT your normal flyouts where the whole folder is always cascaded out. These are actually listings of your most recently used clicks on that particular start menu app. I had the options for "store and display recently opened programs/items" turned off. With the options turned on AND clicking on something, I finally would get a caret! One whole item, heh. Not that much of a bother as I can always just click on Control Panel and use the window. Just different from the old start menu recently used listing and the old complete folder submenus. I use Quick Launch Toolbar all the time anyways.

PS I just noticed that the heading of the flyout is named RECENT. That is a clue to what it is for I guess.

 

Phone Link not showing Contact Names....again

I was able to fix this on my computer by following these steps:

1. In the Phone Link app on PC, go to Settings, click the My Devices tab, and use the ellipsis (...) menu on your device to remove it, then close the app.
   
2. On your phone (mine is an Android), go to Settings, Apps, Link to Windows, Open, then remove your PC from the Linked Computers section.
   
3. Restart your phone.
   
4. Re-link the phone and PC by restarting the Phone Link app on your PC and following the step to add your device.
   
5. Perhaps this is the critical thing, but I noticed in the Link to Windows app on Android, there is a toggle to "Sync contacts" under the list of Linked Computers, which was disabled for me. Turn this on.
   

Contacts are showing up again for me now - yay!