Windows 10: Default Start menu tiles all reappear after unpinning

I am using Windows 10 home version. Recently I did the big upgrade.


Afterward I unpinned all of the default tiles- Calender, Live Mail, My Office, Microsoft Store, and lots of "A great app is on its way" tiles, etc.- and replaced them with tiles from the start menu from programs that I wanted.


However, every time I start the computer, all of my tiles have disappeared, and are replaced by all of the default tiles again. Why is this?


What can I do to stop this, and keep only my own pinned tiles?

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Windows 10 - cannot delete or unpin a tile from the Start Menu

I have the same problem with 1 tile.

When I right-click on it, I get only 2 possibilities : "Unpin from start" and "Resize".

• Resize works OK
• Unpin from start does nothing at all, the tile stays put as stubbornly as can be.

 

Windows 10 - cannot delete or unpin a tile from the Start Menu

Hello,

Is there any "back door" way of removing a Windows 10 Start Menu tile? I can't get rid of one particular tile that’s pinned to my Start Menu in Windows 10. The method that should work, doesn't work.

• If I right-click that particular tile, I see the "Unpin from Start" option, but if I click that, the tile stays there.
  
  If I right-click the tile again, I see the "Unpin from Start" option again, but if I click that again,... etc etc etc.
  
  It's an unending circle. The tile is still there even after attempting to unpin it, then shutting down and restarting the PC.
  
• This is a tile that was set up initially to point to a folder then named (let’s call it) "Folder OldName". I subsequently renamed that folder to (let’s call it) "Folder NewName".
  
• It seems that this tile knows that there once was a folder named "Folder OldName", but now that the folder's been renamed, the tile can neither find nor forget the old folder name; and (perhaps for that reason) the tile won't allow itself to be unpinned.
  
• I've searched everywhere, in the Windows Registry and on the C: disk, for anything still named "Folder OldName", hoping that I could delete any hidden references to it; but nothing shows up.
  
• So I'm stuck with a tile that points to nowhere, that doesn't do anything, and that I can't remove in any way.

Does anyone know, please, where the Start Menu keeps its "records" of Start Menu tile instances and properties, and how I can erase the relevant records and/or delete the problem tile?

Thanks in anticipation.

 

Unable to unpin tiles from start menu or uninstall preinstalled games

I purchased a new PC today and I am unable to uninstall or unpin any apps from the Windows 10 start menu. When I right click the tile and select "Unpin from Start," the tile disappears but then reappears after some time, or after the system is restarted.
The PC also came with several games (Candy Crush, Minecraft) preinstalled and I cannot uninstall them. The same thing happens, I click uninstall however the icon reappears after some time. I ran the troubleshooting wizard for the Windows Store apps, which
did not find any issues and I also ran sfc /scannow which didn't find any issues.