Windows 10: Cant change StartMenu settings from previous Win7 install

So I upgraded to Windows 10, it did the in-place upgrade but I now have a problem, in my Win7 install I had my startmenu set so that 0 recent apps were displayed, only the apps I pinned were. Now on my Windows 10 it seems like this setting has carried over except the left side of my startmenu has no apps, since it only lists recent apps.

Is this a bug in Windows 10 or is this a setting that carried over? If anyone knows where the setting is stored in the registry or where I can manually change it, since the setting page for it has been removed.

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Windows 10 Start Menu

Just installed that **** too. I came from win7 and liked that my my new startmenu was pretty similar. Now there is this shitty column in the middle which I'll never use because you cant find **** in there and the buttons on the left are too small to hit.
Why dont they just give us the option to deactivate that thing?

 

Problem with Start Menu, Sound, Search and Network on Windows 10 computer.

Old title: Cant do anything in windows 10 startmenu

Hello everyone

I have windows 10

From 1 month i cant do anything in the startmenu

for example: Edit wifi network, The sound, Open Start, Search, etc..

what i do now ??

 

You have to click All Apps to see your installed apps. You can disable Recently used apps in settings under Personalization->Start. You can also configure what else is displayed in the Customized List setting. there are a number of toggles for what to display.

I'm not sure what bug you're referring to exactly, since your post was a bit confusing.

 

The left side is empty, on my laptop that is also running this area is populated with recent apps. I am assuming it is because my start menu settings on Win7 had been to not show any recent applications on the start menu. I can no longer access that setting on windows 10. Is there another way to get the area populated again.

 

You're going to have to adjust your Start Menu references. No, there isn't a setting for that ... you have to think a little bit differently. *Wink

Think of the right hand side as your pinned programs. That's what they are: pined to Start
- it looks as though you have that figured out though.

Click on the Gear Settings to do most of the configuration changes you
Settings > Personalization > Start might have the switches you're looking for.
There are a lot of things going on with Start and it throws some fits in 10.130 - minor but annoying issues.

Look around settings, and look around Tenforums.

Lots of good stuff in the Tutorials section:
Windows 10 Tutorials

 

I found a setting to show recent apps, toggled it on and off, I'll see if it starts populating.

 

Yes, as I said, you can change that in Settings, under Personalization->Start.

I'm confused what you're really wanting though, it sounded like you WANT the recent apps disabled, but now it sounds like you don't.

The Pinned apps in the start menu in Windows 7 are now on the right hand side where the tiles are. That's what "Pin to start" does now.

 

I see how the first post was confusing, what I want it to do is this:

The Most used section. This is off of my laptop which was a fresh win10 install.

 

Then you can turn it on in Settings under Personalization->Start->Store and Display Recently Used Programs In Start (the second switch from the top)

 

That setting has no effect for me, it is on by default and even toggling does not work. =(

 

You may need to reboot for it take effect.

Also, check the value of this registry setting:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"Start_TrackProgs"=dword:00000002

If this is set to 0 or 1, change it to 2. If it doesn't exist, then it would mean you have that switch turned off. If it's on and it doesn't exist, try creating the key. Again, you may need to reboot.

 

I rebooted after changing that switch and changed the key to 2 (it was 0) did another reboot and still nothing =(

 

Recheck that it didn't get reset to 0 when you closed the settings window. Also, try 1.

You may also want to try creating another User and seeing if that user has a correctly working start.

 

So I believe setting it to 1 worked, I will report back if it stays but I do have the most used section. Not sure if it is populating right though.