Windows 10: How Do I Remove an Orphaned Menu Item from the All Applications List?

After the latest 3/2023 Windows 11 update, I discovered I had a program menu entry in my All Apps menu that I could not remove. I removed the offending program through the recommended uninstall method and rebooted to clear any remnants that might have remained. The program still shows up on the All Apps menu and when I select it it takes me to the Microsoft Store. It was NOT shown as installed in the Microsoft Store. I went ahead and re-installed the application from the store in the hopes I could delete the item again. It turns out that a new menu item for the application is now shown next to

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How to remove item from alphabetical start menu

It's called the All Apps list. There are actually two, a personal one per user, and an all users list. These are combined to show as the list of apps in Start. Ghot has pointed you to the personal one (Option One in this tutorial). The All User list is in Option Three.

Add or Remove Items for All Apps in Start menu in Windows 10

 

Removing Windows Apps sometimes leaves orphan "icons" in the startmenu


I removed the Windows Apps (3D Builder, Groovy etc.) using PowerShell and Remove-AppxPackage / Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage on our Windows 10 machines (64bit, some Home, some Pro) at home.

This worked satisfying enough, but for some (very few) local users the start menu entries for those apps are not removed. I refer to "All Apps" (the A-Z list of all apps).

Situation is like this:

• application is removed (checked with Get-Appxpackage in Powershell)
• start menu still refers to the Windows Apps with the text entry; it does not show the icon, but a coloured rectangle (sized like an icon)
• application cannot be started through this icon (as it is uninstalled)

(Screenshot shows the Maps (german: Karten) and Contacts (german: Kontakte) "icons")

I checked the usual places:

• C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\
• C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\

but of course there are no links to those Windows Apps.

Does anybody have a hint how to remove these orphan "icons" from the start menu (A-Z list)?
What makes Windows show those entries in the start menu's A-Z list?

Thanks for any hint.
Mario

 

No Fan Control menu item in ATITool 0.26

.27b3 problems with 8800GT 256MB

I tried the .27b3 and encountered some problems.

• Default profile comes up 0.00 / 0.00
• App hard locks
• Still no fan menu

In the setup menu the following items appear:

• Overclocking
• Artifact scanning
• Temperature monitoring
• Gamma control
• Startup
• 3D-detection
• Driver tweeks
• Miscellaneous

I'm running XP SP2 running NVIDIA 169.21 drivers.

The device details are displayed correctly now.

Regards,