Windows 10: Start menu Personalization Disabled

You can skip the 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade if you go here, http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...-refresh-media That install media will let you install and activate Windows 8.1 with your Windows 8.0 product code. Even OEM embedded codes. No product code needed to do the download either.

 

Thanks but I gave up 2 weeks ago and reinstalled Win8 Pro then 8.1 Pro then back to Win 10. Can't anything ever go smooth?

 

I've done 4 upgrades and a couple of clean installs after that, No issues worth talking about for me.

 

can some one tell me whats going on here lol i try to enter these and im told they are not commands by the cmd yes its admin opened :retracted: ok i was unaware the cd and ren were part of it being unbolded sorry my ignorance i guess no one elses *Tongue
in addition : it did indeed work like a charm TYVM

 

Glad the fixed work but isn't Microsoft providing a fix or update for these problems

 

I tried the fixes but they didn't work ------ at first.

BUT while copying the shortcuts after recreating the "Start Menu Places" folder I noticed the names had a number in front of them that vanished when the copying was over, so on a hunch I added the number to the Documents shortcut i.e.

01-Documents

When I started the "Choose which folders appear on Start" page all the items were un-greyed. I enabled them all and they showed on the start menu (Documents showed as 01-Documents). I then removed the number from the shortcut and everything still worked ok. Rebooted to check and still ok.

So it looks like the renaming forced some sort of refresh.

Just thought I'd add my experience to this thread.

 

Simply moving the items in "Start Menu Places" into the recycle bin and restoring them worked for me .

 

Absolutely right, that simple move did the trick and all is enabled now.

 

Yes, this did the job! Thanks.........
I want to elaborate a bit cause I only had this problem reverting from Windows 10 developer upgrades, all my folders for start sceen appearance were greyed out.

- Go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu Places
- Delete all files in here to the recycle bin
- Restore them all to the previous location
- Restart the pc

This did the job! Thanks to YanN509! *Smile

 

YanN, thanks. You should offer yourself as a consultant to Microsoft. Did you stumble across this solution or did you "reason" your way to it? If by reason, please share that with us as it might come in handy for the; next glich.

 

Hello I tried all solutions provide here but not work with me mine is all grayed even settings. So I tried hard to fix this problem and finally I got it fixed. try this method:
Before doing any thing CREATE RESTORE POINT if some thing happened you can restore your pc to your created restore point. maybe some start menu pin shortcuts will disappear you can pin your apps later.

1. Create a new account from (Settings then Family & Other Users then Add Someone else to this PC) and make this account administrator.
OR Create a new account by CMD
run cmd as administrator and execute this command net user /add test test is an account name example put any name you want. then execute this command to make this account administrator net localgroup administrators test /add .

2. sign out from your original account and sign in to the new account wait until your account created and finished login then sign out again from the new account and sign in to your original account. Do Not Confuse read slowly *Smile.

3. in your original account (first show hidden files) then go to (c:\users\<new account created>\AppData\Local\TileDataLayer\Database\) copy file (vedatamodel.edb) to any place better create new folder on c:\anyName\ and copy it there.

4. sign out from your original account and then sign in to the new account then go to c:\anyName\ and copy vedatamodel.edb then go to (c:\users\<original account>\AppData\Local\TileDataLayer\Database\)
rename old vedatamodel.edb to any name then paste copied here.

5. OK now sign out and go to your original account and you will see that all options enabled.

P.S if some thing happened to your Tile apps do this:
1. run PowerShell as administrator.
2. paste this command:
Code: Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}[/quote] it will fix all Tile apps.

if some thing wrong happened restore your system to your created restore point

Thank you

 

I found another way that may be a little simpler but may not work for everyone.
Its pretty much the same as above.
Enable hidden items, go to "Start Menu Places" like above
You shouldn't have just regular "Start menus paces" but "Start Menu Places Originals"
Just rename it and take of the "Originals" part
restart.

 

I realize this post is very old, but I just recently encountered this issue and also came up with a much easier possible solution than what has been previously posted: I deleted any/all occurrences of desktop.ini in the following directories:

Code: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu Places[/quote] After deleting (3) occurrences of destop.ini, my Start Menu was immediately no longer grayed-out. HTH someone!