Windows 10: Pinned Start Menu Items Being Removed for Non-Administrative Users

Hello, I am hoping that someone might have a solution to this issue. I am currently running the following hardware/software:
Dell T5810 Workstation
Fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 64bit
With a specific Group Policy for Non-Administrators in place

I have searched the forums for quite some time now, but I have not found anyone that is experiencing the exact same issue that I am. I am currently using a Group Policy that supports the following:
"Remove pinned programs list from Start Menu" = DISABLED
"Remove common program groups from Start Menu" = DISABLED
"Remove frequent programs list from the Start Menu" = ENABLED
"Remove Default Programs link from the Start Menu" = ENABLED
"Remove pinned programs from the Taskbar" = DISABLED

Basically, I can pin items correctly to the Start Menu under the user if I add them to the Administrators user group, but when I attempt to log them back in as a Non-Administrators user (I manually remove them from the Administrators user group), all of the icons show up at login temporarily, but then disappear while I am physically looking at them. This ONLY occurs under Non-Administrative users, which I have to have in place due to security reasons.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. *Smile If absolutely necessary, I do have a recorded video of this occurring.

Thanks!

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customize windows 10 secret start menu

items in control panel are being (slowly) migrated to the modern settings app, control panel will eventually be removed completely.

you can't put it back in the alternate start menu but you can add a tile

click start, type
control panel

right click on control panel at the top of the list and select 'pin to start'.

 

Windows 10 I Forgot My PIN link is missing

I have contacted the Group Policy administrator. They do not have anything set that would remove the link and Remove button. Further more, I have another computer with the same version of windows 10 (1709) and same group policies applied that does have a
Remove button.

Why would there even be a setting in group policy to remove these items. If a PIN had been set previously, shouldn't the user be allowed to remove the PIN? I can see having a policy that would not allow the user to set a PIN, but removing a PIN does no harm.

 

Still have heard nothing about this for several months. Has anyone else run into it? ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

OK, after a TON of additional testing, and nearly 6 months of letting this sit, I was FINALLY able to find a fix for my own issue. Apparently a group policy was put into place that Hides all folders on the user-specific (top) section of the Start menu. The name of this setting is "Remove user's folders from the Start Menu". I simply set this option to "Not Configured", performed a "gpupdate /force" command, and then tested. Everything is functioning normally now! =)

Just thought I would share...in the case that anyone else ever runs into this issue. Thanks!