Windows 10: Start Menu Tile section New Icons not appearing

HI All,I need few new web shortcuts in start menu but its not appearing. we copied relevant files under "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\start shortcuts"We have an xml file which will help us to organize the shortcuts like, column and row and category Web URL, Office, like groups. We use SCCM to push the package. Please help

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Apps icons do not appear in Windows 10 start menu

Hi Spawner,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern and frustration you have been through. I will be glad to assist you.

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  Have you installed all pending Windows and driver updates?
  

Updates are additions to software that can help prevent or fix problems, improve how your computer works, or enhance your computing experience.

I suggest you to refer the link suggested by Rohit Siddegowda on October 9, 2015
and follow the troubleshooting steps suggested.

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Hope this information is helpful. Please do let us know if you need further assistance, we’ll be glad to assist you.

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Start menu tiles are missing their icons

I faced the same situation and was able to use a solution quite similar to

Chad W's below. The main difference being that the packages did not need to be reinstalled.

The source of this information came from an article by
Dennis Faas, detailed to the extreme and very clear. The article is at

https://www.infopackets.com/news/9820/how-fix-windows-10-start-menu-not-working.

The basics, because
Ravendarkhart619's answer as well as the article explain the mechanics per se. After managing to fix it, the tile area will be blank, in case you *really* want to keep your layout.

Using both an administrative Command prompt and an administrative Powershell prompt.
This procedure is not for the faint of heart.

Prepare

On the DOS command prompt:

• taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
  -- Forcefully kills the Explorer.exe process.
• net stop tiledatamodelsvc
  -- Stops the Tile Data service
  

On the Powershell window:

• cd C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\TileDataLayer\ -- it contains the Database folder which is what needs to be rebuilt

Clear the Start Menu database

At this point all you need to do is to delete (make a backup first of course) the contents of the database, then manually rebuild it. Removing the contents can be harder than it seems, as the files are busy.

This is what I managed to do, some stuff may be superfluous. Also, the commands I'm typing may have syntax errors as I typed many times and I'm not sure which ones were the correct ones. The idea is there however.

• mkdir database-backup (or whatever)

A simple MOVE command won't work. I was unable to do the move on the Command Prompt itself.

• get-childitem .\database\ | Move-Item -destination .\database-backup\ -- This (again, may have a small syntax error) will move the database files to the backup folder. Make sure the
  Tile Data Model service is not running (see step 2)

Before proceeding, make sure the .\database\ folder is empty. It took me more than one attempt, particularly with the main database file,
EDB.chk

Prepare the apps

This is where this method differs from Chad W's, as it doesn't require the apps to be reinstalled.
The gist is to "touch" the apps ever-so-lightly to avoid changing them yet making Start think they did change, so they are added to the Start menu again.

The same process has to be done twice, once for the Windows Apps and another for the EXE programs, whose icons/links are still on the old-style Start menu.

For the first, the firewall has to be disabled, then the
DevelopmentMode for all the apps will be turned off (which is/should be already off: this is the light "touch") and afterwards the firewall enabled again. The firewall being off is critical.

• NetSh Advfirewall set allprofiles state off

• Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
  
  • This one takes a while and some packages may not be updated if there are newer ones already installed.

• NetSh Advfirewall set allprofiles state on

Rebuild the App icon databases

At this point, the database is ready to be rebuilt. This will happen when the
Tile Data service is running and
explorer.exe is running.

On the Command Prompt (not the Powershell one)

• net start tiledatamodelsvc
  
• start explorer.exe

Wait for a few seconds, maybe a couple of minutes.
The start menu is slow to update. At first, it will be totally empty.
I repeatedly restarted the Tile Data service and
Explorer out of frustration but after a [seems a long] while, icons on the Start menu started appearing one by one, they will show as "New" and eventually all the Apps will be there.

Add the Old Start style icons

At this point, the Start menu should have your Apps and you can start placing tiles in place.
You should at this point, just to make sure they properly show, the Live Tile works, can be resized etc.

If all is well, then now the old Start menu folder needs to be "touched" as well.
As soon as something happens within it, the new Start menu will scan for changes and add them.

• cd C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
• Copy any icon somewhere else. For example, copy Start Menu\Programs\Windows Accessories\Paint to Start\Menu\Programs -- copy ".\windows accessories\Paint.lnk" .\
  • I used an Explorer window instead. Not only easier but maybe Explorer may trigger the update.
• Delete that new file, it if you wish.

Once this is done, the icons for the contents of this folder will start appearing on the Start menu. Again, will be very slow, one by one.

I hope this helps.

 

Live tiles not working on my new laptop

Hi,



Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community. I will certainly help you with this.



I appreciate if you could answer few questions to narrow down the issue and to provide you better assistance.

• Does this issue persist with all the Live tiles icon?
• Are you able to view the different app’s tiles icon on Start menu?

I suggest you to try the below given steps and check if issue gets resolved:

• Press the Windows key to open the Start menu.
• Right click on the Tiles and click “turn live tile on”.
• Repeat step 2 on the desired tiles.

Please post back with the results and the information asked, we will be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.