Windows 10: Add or Remove Items for All Apps in Start menu in Windows 10

To whom are you referring to as an idiot?

What is the folder for? Please post some screenshots to see if may reveal anything,

Get-StartApps is a combination of everything in All apps and tiles (pinned) on Start.

 

Brink -- attached screenshots as requested.









this is the ProgramData ... Start Menu, the Users ...Start Menu, and the part of the All Apps list for B and C;
Focus on: Clockwork Mod which shows in the AllApps but not elsewhere; also note: No entry in All Apps for Corel PaintShop or Cloudmark or APC UPS STatus. see below for Get-StartApps

[n.b. the idiot i was referring to was at Microsoft help desk ... totally clueless but would not admit it]

Below is the full listing from Get-StartApps. Notice entries for Corel, Cloudmark and APC.

Code: Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. 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Yeah, some of the outsourced support Microsoft uses seem to only follow a flowchart.

Do you have Corel, Cloudmark and APC pinned to Start? I see their shortcuts in your %ProgramData%\...\Programs folder. Do the shortcuts work if you click on them there? If not, then delete them and create new shortcuts as a test to see if they show in All Apps afterwards. If not, then create the shortcuts in your %AppData%\...\Programs location to see if they show in All Apps afterwards for only your account.

Clockwork Mod may not have registered properly when installed. It wouldn't hurt to notify the developer about this to see if he/she may be able to update it.

 

Do you have Corel, Cloudmark and APC pinned to Start?

>>Well, pin to start only works for items already in the All Apps list. since they dont appear i cannot pin to start.

I see their shortcuts in your %ProgramData%\...\Programs folder. Do the shortcuts work if you click on them there?
>> Yes. they all work there

create the shortcuts in your %AppData%\...\Programs location to see if they show in All Apps afterwards
>> I did and they do not.

any other ideas to try ?

 

You could "Pin to Start" items that are not in All Apps from other locations, but since they are not for you, then that's not why anyways.

'Pin to Start' and 'Unpin from Start" items in Windows 10

I must admit that I'm running out of ideas as well. I suppose you could pin those apps to Start to use for now until you can get them to show in All Apps.

 

I suppose you could pin those apps to Start to use for now until you can get them to show in All Apps.
>>>> no that is part of the problem. Pin to Start has no effect on anything for me UNLESS it is a link already in the All Apps list

 

In that case, you might consider doing a repair install to fix this and other issues without losing anything.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

 

Hey Brink,
I tried rebooting, tried a registry cleaning. rebooted. no help. then today did a mammoth [45 minutes] win 10 upgrade. Now the All Apps is working like it should. go figure. thanks for a ll the thoughts

 

Thank you. On build 10586.218. I wanted to put a shortcut to scanpst on the start menu for a particular user. Had already achieved exactly what I wanted for Administrator, that is, a shortcut and no tile. However when I tried to do it for a particular user I must have made a mistake and I finished up with a tile & no shortcut. Then deleting the tile and trying again was no better (all as others report).

I then used a simplified variation of Anleck’s method. Signed on as Administrator, I simply renamed the particular User's TileDataLayer folder (ie did not register a temp user) then restarted. W10 recreated TileDataLayer folder for that user, and the shortcut was in the menu, without a tile. There were no other tiles either; I had deleted all other tiles deliberately previously.

 

Same problem here as some others are experiencing.

I have tried adding shortcuts to programs to either of these locations:
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

But they won't show up under "all apps".

Is there a solution to this yet? I assumed not, since I didn't find anything new in the start post of this topic.

 

I am also confirming this does not work. Following the instructions creates a tile and does not add anything to the "All apps" section of the start menu.

 

Hello Celeras, *Smile

Which option are you using, and what shortcut are you trying to add?

I just tested OPTION THREE adding an "Instant Restore Point" shortcut (.lnk) file and folder, and it shows in my All apps.

 

Hi Brink,

I tried all the options listed, appdata and programdata had the same results.

I am trying to add a desktop shortcut for 3DMark so it is grouped in all apps with 3DMark 11 & Vantage. It only shows up as a tile on the right.

 

Go ahead and post screenshots showing the shortcut in "All apps"/Start menu and the Start menu Programs folder to see if anything may stand out.

If a shortcut of the application already exists in "All apps", then adding another shortcut of the app will not work.

 

Sure thing, had to wait until I got home but here you go. For reference, I have also tried the following with the same results:

-In the futuremark folder
-In a new folder I created in the futuremark folder
-In a new folder I created in the programs folder