Windows 10: Desktop Tile in Windows 10 Start Menu

I had a tile on my Windows 10 start menu to take me direct to the desktop. It showed a picture of my desktop wallpaper and clicking on this tile took me straight to the desktop.


I accidentally deleted this tile and now cannot get it back. If I search for 'desktop' it does not give me an option to 'pin to start' If I right click on the desktop it does not give me the option to pin to start either.


Is there a straightforward way I can get the desktop tile back? I believe I can create a tile using 'Tile Creator', but I am not young anymore and do not want to get involved in typing long strings of command prompt instructions or anything complicated like that. Thanks for your help.

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how do i reset the start menu in windows 10 to not show tiles?

A few days ago, my friends Win10 computer stopped showing his desktop and now only shows the tiles (he wants to see the default list of programs, not any tiles).

Clicking on the Windows key or "start menu" doesn't change anything. I stepped him through some online suggestions (including Settings/Start/Use-start-full-screen and making sure Settings/Table-mode was not engaged) but they don't work.

I've also compared his settings (Start/Use-start-full... and Table-mode) to my Win10 machine and they are the same.

Assistance/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

How to Move Desktop Icon to start Menu or create a tile.

I have even added my batch files to the apps list*Wink

1. You need to create a desktop shortcut for it first by "send to desktop".
2. Then cut & paste it into C:\Users\UserNameHere\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
3. Open start menu and look on the list view, right click the icon(always make my own), and pin to start.
4. I then go to my batch files original location, and a 256x256 .png of my icon, and an XML .VisualElementsManifest to it, and now I have my custom tile for my batch file.

 

Windows 10 Start Menu all apps / tiles missing

So I woke my computer up from sleep last night and this is what I was welcomed with:




All of a sudden my start menu had no apps listed and no live tiles to speak of. So I did my googleing and I found this microsoft answer page: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...0-b988cd6da49a

I tried every step in their. After all said and done, I got installed programs to show up, but the live tiles that usually show to the right did not come back. I was ok with that, thinking I would work on this today and find a solution to that problem.

I just woke up the computer again from sleep and the start menu is blank AGAIN. Before this started happening last night, I have not installed any new software nor has windows ran any updates.

I'm at a loss. I tried system recovery and to roll back to a few days prior, but I keep getting an error after recovery is attempted stating that windows recovery wasn't able to fully complete due to a certain file (i can retry recovery and post picture of error if needed).

So any suggestions on whats my next step? I thought maybe I had a malware issue, but II have avast and malware antibytes installed and they showed no hits when the scans where run.

Any suggestions or guidance is greatly appreciated. Hope you all have a Great Turkey Day!

PS, I have to work today from 4pm to 6am, so If I do not reply right away I apologize.