Windows 10: Broken shortcut on Start Menu program list

I found a broken shortcut on my account's Start Menu program list, located all the way on the bottom.





Right-clicking and uninstalling doesn't do anything. I tried some of the solutions found online and most of them don't work. Is there any way for me to fix this mild annoyance?

:)

 

After upgrade to Windows 10 Start menu filled with old program icons.

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Gives you the folder of the start menu...are almost sure you can delete the broken shortcuts there..

 

Is my start menu broken?

Just updated as well, and thought I would finally give the windows 10 start menu a go, and not use classic shell. But I'm unsure whether my start menu is broken, and I should do a clean install.

• I can drag a tile from the start menu to the desktop, but I can't drag a desktop icon to the start menu so it becomes a windows 10 tile icon?
• I can right-click a tile and pin a shortcut to the taskbar, but again, I can't right-click a shortcut from the taskbar and pin it to the start menu.
• When dragging tiles around, I have to wait before the animation is done until I can start the next drag.

• I only have two options, large square or small square. Wasn't there a time, where you could have wide and tall and huge tiles? Or does that only works for apps :/? (I don't use any windows 10 apps)
• I can't rename a pinned shortcut?
• And is there still no option to add custom images to icons and make them look nice?

Have Microsoft not had 4 years with these new "tile icons"? And it is till this bad?

The only way for me to pin a program to the start menu is by locating it in the programs list in the start menu and drag or right-click to pin it. I use multiple versions of the same program, but the programs list in the start
menu only shows one, so how on earth to I add a shortcut to the other versions then?

 

Go to the control panel and delete there, while we still have control panel

 

How do I do that, when I don't even know what the app is?

 

Very interesting! I've got it, too -- and even when I instruct Win10 to uninstall the item (whatever the heck it may be), it doesn't do anything. Just posted an item to the MS feedback hub about this. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!
--Ed--

 

"Right-clicking and uninstalling doesn't do anything. "

It's an orphaned shortcut only. Does r-click have a 'More/Open file location' option ? If so, it will take you here or you can do it manually (enable view hidden folders view) and try deleting the shortcut there -
C:\Users\your user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

 

There are no broken shortcuts to be found in that directory. I managed to fix this by creating a new user account.