Windows 10: Start Menu Oddities (1809/1903)

Hello!

I'm encountering a bit of odd behavior when working with the Start Menu in Windows Server 1809, but I've verified the issue in Win10 1903 as well. All in all, it's a two part issue.

Part one: Start layout width does not seem to be saved when using Export-StartLayout and Import-StartLayout PowerShell cmdlets. If I export a layout that looks like this https://i.imgur.com/9df6eZB.png it will look like https://i.imgur.com/mgRw7N7.png when it is imported. If I manually resize start menu and export it again, then do a differential comparison against what was imported there is no change.

Has anyone else encountered this? If so, how did you restore the second full panel for pinned item groups?

Part two: See that gap beside the pinned Control Panel in either image? It's supposed to be a shortcut to "God Mode". The start layout I've imported contains the correct path, but it is not shown in this section of the start menu. I have a non-pinned shortcut in my start menu to a "God Mode" folder on this machine. I can drag it to the System Administration section, and a pinned "God Mode" shortcut will be created as expected. If I export the start layout after doing so and compare it to what was imported originally, there are no differences in between what was imported originally and the export after my changes.

Has anyone else encountered this? If so, how did you restore a reliable shortcut to "God Mode".

Thanks for reading.
-FJB

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