Windows 10: All windows 11 users can't see option to pin start menu icons

Is someone else facing this issue in their organization. Even though all start menu and taskbar policies are 'no configured' still the option to pin to start menu disappeared. There was no recent change made to our machine policies via GPO or intune. We do have a policy configured to pin folders on the start menu in Win11. It never caused any issue earlier, I assume it's the latest update for Win11.Just checking if this is a MS issue.

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How to customize pinned Start Menu icon?

OK, I have a comparable shortcut I added to Windows Accessories to start IE with no add-ons. It is in:
C:\Users\<my name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories
and is an ordinary shortcut to iexplore.exe with some parameters:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -extoff

It originally showed the default IE icon on the list of All apps on the left Start menu. I pinned it to Start and it showed the same IE icon. I then did 'More > Open file location' and gave it a different icon. As you can see, both the All apps menu and the Tile show the custom icon now.





This was done with version 1607, what version does Winver say you have? It may be that this doesn't work on earlier versions, the Start menu had a lot of changes from that of 1511.

I suggest you try changing the icon to something else, then back to your preferred icon after you have pinned it to Start. This may kick Windows into showing the correct icon on the Tile.

 

Pin to start menu icon cache

Hmm, it does the same for me. *Confused

As a workaround, you could add the shortcut to the All Apps list in the Start menu using an option in the tutorial below. It's not the same as Pin to Start, but it's in the Start menu and uses the custom icon.

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

 

Start menu default internet acces icon screwed?

You generally set that via the Start Menu settings (right-click start menu -> properties).

I had that issues a while ago, and it meant removing it from the Start Menu, and reinstalling my browser to get the icon back, it was very odd.