Windows 10: Duplicate Start Menu Entries

After performing a "reset PC" last night and installing (some) of my programs, I noticed the start menu has duplicate entries for some of them.





In addition to Evernote, the other programs with double entries are Malwarebytes and ShareX. Both entries (for each program), point to the same .exe file. What is very curious is that neither entry launches the program. They are just useless entries in the start menu.

Any idea how to fix this?

:)

 

Duplicate Games in Games folder - Windows 10

It's not related to games or upgrade. If you have a program installed, and you install it again (newer version or whatever) you may find (not always) duplicate entries in the Start Menu. You may also find entries missing (in my case, Thunderbird had no start
menu entry). So it would seem there's a bug that causes Win10 to have duplicate Start Menu entries for the same shortcut, or to 'forget' entries.

 

Duplicate ‘my office’ entries in start menu

As per direction of the office support twitter team i am posting about an issue with the ‘my office’ app. Many months ago the app transitioned from being ‘get office’ to ‘my office’ via store app updates. Many users were left with both a get office and a
my office start menu entry as a result. I reckon around november time another app update came through and this left many users with duplicate ‘my office’ entries in the start menu. One working whilst the other was dead. The duplicate cannot be removed and
looks awful. On all our machines at home we have this issue and i have seen it reported many times. It seems to affect machines worst that have multiple user accounts on the same pc. For example on one of our machines my own user accounf only has one entry
but the other user accounts have duplication. It wouldnt be so bad if the extra entry can easily be removed from the start menu but this is a modern app and it’s start menu entry cannot be deleted like traditional program entries. I am dissapointed microsoft
has allowed this to linger for months and am looking for something to be done

thanks, Wayne

 

The locations of start menu shortcuts is similar to what it always has been.

Folder paths are given here:
All apps in Start menu - Add or Remove Items in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Customization Tutorials
If you explore the relevant folders, you may be able to resolve this as you can delete (or add) shortcuts in the relevant folder.

Another approach might be to use install and use the Classic Shell start menu, and manipulate shortcuts using that in a familiar (to Win 7 users) drag 'n drop manner and right click /delete, open file location....

 

Thank you, but those programs do not appear in the start menu folder, so there are no duplicates for me to remove from there. (C:\Users\<__ME__>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs)

 

Have you checked here?
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

(Option 3 in the tutorial)

And what happens if you rt click a shortcut, click More, click Open File Location?

 

I did not. I was late for work and only had time for the first option.

I did notice that when I right click a shortcut, I get nothing.

 

Hi, First try this:
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/window...troubleshooter

Then is no luck, this will eliminate those duplicates, but it will also eliminate any shortcuts you have added to the start menu.
Reset Start Layout in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Customization Tutorials

What you could do is take a backup copy of the two folders (User and All Users) and carefully copy the content back again afterwards.

Or if you've only a few programs installed, reinstall them.