Windows 10: The old start menu arrows a great app is on its way thing.

Greeting all,

I've been meaning to post the old question for a while.

I am asking if we have a known simple fix for the down arrows in start menu on a clean installation to push whatever process updates the start menu tiles.

Even in 20H2 I am still reinstalling customers machines ( Clean Installs ) when the start menu fails to do it's thing.

Since the release of Win10 I have been plagued by this and couldn't count how many times I've had to " Go again " to get the start menu resolved. I have tried many of the driver and user profile fixes but in the last couple of years decided that loading again is the quickest route. The second install usually nails it. I did leave a laptop for a day earlier this week and the tiles appeared correctly after 24 hours which reminded me to post this. I like to turn around reinstallations for customers the same day so I can't afford the extra time. Something such as Microsoft Content must initiate the process.

Thanks for reading. As I say I'm only asking if someone knows a very " Simple " fix otherwise I may just as well keep installing twice when this happens.

Thanks again.

:)

 

Unpinned start menu titles reappear with "A great new app is coming"

In the past, I unpinned all tiles from the start menu so that I have just the vertical column of apps.

Shortly after the 1809 update on February 4th, 2019**, these tiles came back, many of them empty: They have a downward arrow like they are downloading and most of them have a hint A great new app is coming.

But nothing is coming, and if I unpin them all again, they will reappear after one or more system boots.





Other info that may be relevant:

• (Right) Clicking the titles with the downward arrow does nothing.
  
• The MS Store app settings have App updates on and Live titles on. I never use(d) the Store app.
  
• The Downloads and updates section in the MS Store App list for recent activity does not have a one-on-one match with the reappearing tiles (either all of them or those that do not have the downward arrow)
  
• As you can see from screenshots the OS language is Dutch. Keyboard is US.
  
• Recent updates according to the old control panel (the list does not go further back than that??):
  

I hesitate to do reinstalls (as e.g. suggested here), so I'm asking here first:

What can I do to have these start menu tiles disappear?

** My company manages updates through WSUS and they had some issues with that, which made this update late:

 

Need old Windows Start menu

Hi,

I realize that you need the old Windows start menu. I will try to help you with this issue.

You can click the hash icon located above the 3D Builder icon to check if that helps.

Suggest you to follow these steps to check if that helps:

• 
  Press Windows key + I to get the Settings screen.
  
• 
  Click on Personalization and click Start.
  
• 
  Enable the feature for “use start full screen”.
  

Keep us informed to help you further.

Thank you.

 

"A great app is on it's way!"

I just got a new laptop and on the start menu it says for about half of the apps "a great app is on it's way!"

how do I fix this?