Windows 10: Pin/Unpin is missing from right click context menu

I have exactly the same problem as joeyTribbiani, can't pin, unpin, modify my icons (position, size), or change the group names, actually i cant do anything to personalize the start menu, and some icons have dissapeared leaving just a blank space, I have almost 1 month with this problem, but this is the first time that I see someone else having this problem, no one says anything about this, and I have tried almost every solution:
- Already scanned with powershell, and got that no problems were registered.
- Changed theme to default
- Uninstalled avast antivirus
- Restarted (way too many times)
- Updates are up to date
- Did the App Count, its 196 (So the 532 limit is way above my count)
- Did safe boot without the network option
- And did KeithM solution without luck. (Although under HKCU the folder "Explorer" didnt exist, so i created one, created the registry in there and checked the value as 0, and still no luck)
If i find a solution I'll post it back in here, so please if you do too, mention it in this thread, because i havent found any other one mentioning this same problem.
P.S. By the way, another weird thing that I noticed is that under Settings > Personalization > Start, the option "Show more Tiles" is grayed out, and it is turned off by default, so I cant change it to on.

 

What do you see if you click on More? That's where I see the Pin option along with a few others.

 

Same as you. But I dont want to "pin to taskbar" I want to "pin to start". And the pin/unpin to start is not there (nor anywhere else).

 

As you said FigueroaMX, under CurrentUser there were no "explorer"-value. And under the CurrentMachine there is no NoChangesStartMenu. Maybe if I create those. But what type should the NoChangesStartMenu be?

 

I created the values in the registry according to KeithM. Created NoChangeStartMenu as DWORD and hex value 0. But still no luck. I will post if I find a solution. I think we are not the only ones with this problem.

 

Did this. Well had to create NoChangeStartMenu (as DWORD with hex value 0) But no luck *Sad Thank you for the suggestion though. *Smile

 

Yeah, on currentmachine there wasnt any file named nochangestartmenu, i created it also as DWORD, and wrote 0 as its value, but got no luck either.

 

Does anyone know exactly what registry entries that is needed for the menu-options " pin/unpin to startmenu " in the right-click (context-menu).
As Ive written, they are missing. There is no pin/unpin-options. I have 3-4 more windows10 pc and they are working so I know exactly where they should appear and how to use them when they are there. But they are missing.
I thought that if I know exactly what entries that is needed for those options to appear in the menu I could see if any is missing in my registry.

 

Save yourself some time and download a file that does it for you.

[Fix] Pin To Start Option Missing In Windows - The Winhelponline Blog

The site has other awesome files to download which has saved me future time as I have been searching for 'show more tiles' answer for 12 hours, and found this legend file which turns the right values from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0 !!!

Stop searching regedit and gpedit and download the file there is no virus, so you can go to bed. *Smile

w10_pin_to-start.zip

 

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwww! Thank you... you are a life saver!!!!
I really thought that it wouldnt work because I had already tried everything, but still I said why not, and after running that reg file and restarting my pc it worked again!!!. Man I love you, not in an homosexual way... but damn.. i really love you. Thank you sooo much.
*Wink

 

Hello FigueroaMX .... you're welcome! I am rejoicing with you. I have been up until 1am most nights trying to get things back....Wooohoooo! I'm a female too *Smile

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php...6095&ref=br_rs

 

Lol, sorry , I did a quick asumption, but I still love you a lot, I sincerely thought that I would have to stay with that problem forever (or until I changed my pc), there should be more people like you, I wish you the best on your work and life *Smile Thanks again

 

Unfortunattely, did not do any good for me *Sad Have already tried to change those manually (as given in the beginning of this thread). But anyway, thank you for sharing. Better share one time more than one time less *Wink

 

I tried that manually too, and it did work anyway with this file.
Dunno if this can help you, the steps that I did were the following:
1- Downloaded the reg file
2- Ran it, and accept everything
3- Went to the start menu, and everything was the same (the problem wasnt solved)
4- I ran the reg file again and accepted everything.
5- Restarted the pc (without checking the start menu)
6- Login and checking that the start menu worked again.
Give it a try, i thought it wouldnt work either, but it did.

 

Thanks, Sonicx and FigueroaMX for the good laugh. *Roflmao2*Roflmao2*Roflmao2

It's so easy to assume that if the name's not gender specific, it's just gotta be a male. I know, I got caught in the same trap of thinking a gal was a guy. And, of course, is gender specific.

What I love about TenForums is that everyone here just accepts that we gals know what we're talking about when we type. *Smile