Windows 10: anyway to change the names of apps pinned to start menu

Windows 10 out of the Edge Browser allows almost anything to be pinned to Start Menu which is great but many of the names are too long, so once again, can names of apps be changed that are pinned to start menu?

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Unable to open Windows apps on clicking the Start menu in Windows 10.

Hi Johnathan,

Thank you for the updates.

Let's try to manually pin the apps to the start menu and check if it helps.

• Open Start menu.
• Type the name of the app which you want to pin to start.
• Right click on that app and click on Pin this app to Start.

Let us know the results.

 

My Computer and Control Panel have (1) next to them after update

Hi Daniel,



There is no option to rename Apps on the Start menu, you can change the size and pattern of the tiles but not the name. Let’s try to unpin the icons from start menu and Pin them again to start menu.



Method 1:

To unpin app from the start menu. To unpin follow the steps below.

• Open Start screen, Select the My computer.
• Right click on the My computer icon.
• From the options, select Unpin from start.
• Once you have unpinned my computer and control panel from start menu, pin them again to start menu again and check if it helps. To pin the icon to start menu follow the steps below.
• Right click on My computer icon.
• From the options, select pin to start.

Note: Repeat the above steps for control panel icon.



Method 2:

• Right click on the control panel Icon on start menu, select more and click on open file location.
• Select control panel icon, right click on it and select rename and change the name.
• Once the name is changed right click on control panel icon and select pin to start option.

Note: Repeat the above steps for My PC or My computer icon.



Hope this information is helpful. Please do let us know if you need further assistance, we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

You would have to create a shortcut of the item first, rename the shortcut, then pin that to the Start Menu.