Windows 10: No Option to Pin to Start

Yes, that all works, what doesn't work is moving the apps to the left side, as shown in the OP first post. Not to have the pinning on the tiles, to have it in the start menu where "most used" is on the OP first pictures. That gives the no entry sign.

Like win7, vista, xp, NT, 98, 95...... to click start and have the apps you want listed right away, ready to click. Not to have to search through tiles or list of all apps.

 

You cannot put items on the left hand side, the systems puts things there, this is not a bug, its by design

The only place you can put your own is on the right hand side

 

So, how do I get the "most used" features, if using the right hand side, like recent docs. Or how to fix the "design" to actually list the programs I use most.

(sorry for the hijack)

 

Most used will eventually get populated, mine took a couple of weeks before it started showing items, prior to that it was a generic list
also, if you have any pinned to right hand side, they will not show in most used (not sure if this is by design or bug)

 

So there's no option to have recent docs directly from the start if the program is pinned to the start menu now?
That seems like a step backward

 

The app does not appear in the most recent apps list if it is pinned to start (for me anyway), if an app does get pinned as most used, then you get a dropdown that functions the same a right clicking on the item in the taskbar (eg I have IE as my most used and it has a dropdown of my recent visited sites)

Explorer shows recent items, but doesn't seem to show documents, might be a setting for this, need to look more into it

 

Just playing around with it, the tool tip calls it a "jump list", for word and acrobat then it's a list of recent docs opened.

It is a cool shortcut feature, IE jump list shows recent site, new window or tab. Live mail has new email, contacts, events.

Someone has gone to the trouble of making these jump lists, be a shame if they didn't get used properly. *Biggrin

 

There is supposed to be a registry change that adds the jump list to the tiles on the right hand side, EnableXamlJumpView, doesn't seem to work for me.

It works if pinned to the task bar, not the start menu *Sad

 

what in the world happened here!

So to give all an update trying tablet mode still gives the same results. I upgraded this computer from 8.1 enterprise... to windows 10 pro. don't ask questions how i got it to work... *google*

 

Sorry

 

The reg hack doesn't work anymore, just right click on everything.

 

anyone else have any insight on my issue? i can't pin to start in windows explorer either. I was once able to do it and now it's just vanished! i'm stumped.

 

Hey all I'm back.. still with the same issue.. I thought it was possible a bug but now that I got the November update on this machine i found more clues..
I'm on 10586.14 (1115) Win 10 Pro.
It seems i can't click the "show more tiles" switch because some settings are managed by my organization. right away that tells me there's a group policy enable.. so i looked around in gpedit and found nothing is configured.....how can this be?? can i see if anything is configured in the registry? where are gp entries stored in the registry?

 

Hi guys,
I run into the same issue with my W10 home edition.
No way to move, add or remove tiles in the start menu.

This is how i fixed it:

regedit to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer]
and change "LockedStartLayout" DWord value to 0
No need to touch the "StartLayoutFile" entry.

Logoff and logon.

hope it works for you too.
regards
Marco

 

I don't even have that key in my registry. I added it and it still didn't do a think.. i'm on Pro though so maybe that's why...