Windows 10: Cannot Pin or Organize Icons in Start Menu

I seem to have lost the ability to pin programs to the Start Menu or organize the ones I had already pinned. Also, when I try to turn on "Use Start full screen," it turns back off right away.


It's a new computer that I built last night with a new Windows 10 installation. I installed a few programs today, and I pinned a few of them to the Start Menu, resized the icons to small, and moved them around a bit - worked just as well as it always did on my old computer. Then I installed a few more programs and went to organize my already-pinned icons before pinning the new(er) programs. Trying to move an icon caused the spinning blue ring, followed by the Start Menu collapsing. Upon re-opening the Start Menu, I found that all previous customizations (e.g. I had renamed a group) were gone.


I did some searching, and tried the suggested fix of unpinning and re-pinning programs. The context menu comes up to Pin, but I can't re-pin the apps that had previously been pinned or pin anything else. I tried to turn on "Use Start full screen" but it didn't seem to make any difference to the Start Menu, and the setting goes back to Off as soon as I go to another window and back.

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Start menu default internet acces icon screwed?

Try removing that icon from the start menu, going to profram file folder for firefox, and doing "pin 2 start menu".

 

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.

 

How to pin shortcut to start menu.

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

As per the description, I understand that you would like to know how to pin short cut to start menu.

I would suggest you to refer to the article given below if you are using Windows 7.

Pin a program to the Start menu

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Pin-a-program-to-the-Start-menu

And if you are using Windows 10 then I would suggest you to follow the steps mentioned below.

Pin apps to Start

Pin the apps you use most often to the Start menu. Here's how:

• Go to Start > All Apps.
• Press and hold (or right-click) an app.
• Select Pin to Start.

Hope this helps. Please let us know the results. We will be happy to assist you further.