Windows 10: Reset Start Layout in Windows 10

How to: Reset Start Layout in Windows 10

How to Reset Start Menu Layout to Default in Windows 10


The layout of your Start menu includes how you Live Folders.

Sometimes you may no longer be able to "Pin to Start" or "Unpin from Start", and/or the Start menu may become corrupted and will no longer display or work properly. When this happens, resetting the Start layout back to default can usually fix this.

This tutorial will show you how to reset the Start screen layout back to default for your account in Windows 10.

EXAMPLE: Default Start menu layout in Windows 10






Here's How:

1 Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below.

The downloadble .reg file below will delete the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CloudStore\Store\Cache\DefaultAccount


Reset_Start_layout_to_default.reg

Download
2 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

3 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

4 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

5 sign in to apply.

6 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


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can't change start menu setting, layout and pin/unpin

Hi,

I have problem with start menu, setting and layout can not be changed (I could change them, but the setting won't effect and layout will be reset every time)

exactly when i want to make a new group of apps in start menu it crashes and the layout and setting resets or when i change the start setting, settings resets and no changes appear

before this problem some icons named "p~microsoft.windows.content....." appeared in start menu and i tried to remove them but i couldn't , after i restarted the windows the problem accorded

is there any way to fix this ?

Windows 10 Enterprise (latest update) and fresh install

 

Windows 10 start menu multiple instances

Give this a try to fix it:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3087-reset-...

 

Thanks Brink! I will work through this tutorial tomorrow when I go to fix my mom's Desktop PC's Start Menu.

 

You're most welcome Jesse. Please let us know how it went. *Smile

 

Brink (Shawn)... It worked like a charm. However, I did have to uninstall and reinstall some apps though that I had hidden from the Start Menu that weren't showing up any previews for the Tiles. Anyway, it is all fixed now and now I know how to fix it. Thanks again!

 

Great news Jesse. *Party

 

Saw this on the MDL site and haven't yet tested it but if someone wishes to try here it is and you might need to restart the computer a number of times to rebuild it according to the post

Copy & Paste the following in a textfile and save as "Tilegone.cmd", run as Admin:
Code:
@net.exe session >nul 2>&1
@if ErrorLevel 1 (echo "Run as Administrator" & pause && exit)

sc stop tiledatamodelsvc
move /y %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\TileDataLayer %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\OLD_TileDataLayer

 

Thanks for this Brink.
I had a phantom shortcut in the all apps start menu that I couldn't remove after many attempts of different types and this fix work like a charm.
I should have came here in the first place, as it would have saved me a lot of aggravation. *Smile

 

I'm glad it could help GreyThorne. *Smile

 

Brink - do your steps continue to work in the latest Win 10 (after Anniversary and all current updates)?
Also, will I lose, for example, Start menu links to my recently installed Office 365 Home?
Finally, do these steps change only Start or also other things, like toolbars or what shows at the bottom?
Thanks again.

 

Hello glnz, *Smile

This will only affect items on the Start screen. This would include items pinned to Start and tiles. It won't affect any links in the Start menu on the left side.

 

Great - thank you Brink !!

 

You're most welcome. *Smile

 

The tutorial is amazing, it works, thanks. However, it doesn't only reset the Start Menu, but also the UWP Apps installed from Windows Store. It does pretty scary when I run UWP Apps, but there's nothing on my Taskbar, Task View, and Alt + Tab.