Windows 10: Start Menu won't show some shortcuts

I have installed Microsoft Professional Pro 2024 on two computers. I created a folder for Microsoft Office and moved the application shortcuts into it on both computers. I placed this in the C:\Program Data\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\ Programs directory so it would show on the Start Menu. On one computer it works just fine. On the other, this folder will not show up on the Start Menu. I tried everything which copilot suggested which as usual, is a total waste of time because copilot is pretty much useless but this folder will only appear in the Start Menu on one computer and not on the oth

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Pin shortcuts to Start

Hello Doug,

If you mean for the All Apps list in the Start menu, then the tutorial below can help show you step by step on how to add and remove shortcuts to it.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/10529-add-remove-items-all-apps-start-menu-windows-10-a.html

 

New Desktop Shortcut does Not show up in my Start Menu

Usually when I pin something to the Start menu it ends up at the bottom of the list of Tiles so I click it to drag back up to the top of that list.

 

How to pin shortcut to start menu.

This sounds great... only problem is that the hidden folder in Windows 10 "C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs" contains five folders and no files. If I add my shortcut to the "Programs" folder as suggested, it does NOT appear
in the "All apps" list. If I put it in the "Windows System" folder, a subfolder of "Programs" which contains 7 other shortcuts that show up in "All apps", my shortcut still does not appear. I really don't care about "The common way" or "the more elegant way",
I just want to know how to accomplish this, and so far, these solutions just don't work. It seems like there should be a folder, somewhere, where all the shortcuts for the "All apps" list are stored. I hope someone can help me with this frustrating issue.