Windows 10: Win 10 Pro domain machines Start menu tiles vanish/inconstsnecies.

I've been struggling with the windows 10 Start menu since starting to use windows 10 in a professional environment 18 months ago.

I've gradually wrestled it into *almost* doing my bidding, but never 100%.

My current issue is that machines on my domain all pick up different aspects of the LayoutModifcation.xml. Menus have spaces where there should be tiles, one machine will have one start menu and the next machine will have a different looking menu yet they pull from EXACTLY the same file.

Entries I put into the LayoutModification.xml match up with links and shortcuts in a network location available to all, these links and shortcuts show up in "All Apps".

I moved a machine to the root of the Directory so that minimal GPOs applied to it, and attempted to add tiles manually to the start menu using a Network Admin account. The tile appeared, for all of five seconds then vanished next time I opened the start menu. However when I click to try and add the same link only the option to "Unpin from start" is available, then I notice an invisible group on the start menu with nothing in it.

Out of 160 boxes no two machines maintain the same content on their start menus.

Can anybody shed any light on this, I've been coming back to this over and over and getting absolutely nowhere for over a year...

Thanks.

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Windows 10 Critical Error

Problems with Win 10 on a domain, from time to time newly imaged machines (Lenovo 470s and Yoga 260) will become unresponsive, clicking live tiles and Cortana Search box, do nothing then a message with appear Windows Encountered a Critical Error and needs
to shut down, I have nailed this down to a profile issues on the laptops (admin) account and run a PowerShell script to resolve, however, I have noticed that all of the live tiles now vanish once the fix has been deployed.

I would like to inquire if there is a fix to restore the live tiles on these users machines? so the machine can be restored to 100%

Many Thanks for you assistance

Mark

 

Custom Start Menu

Hi,

We have windows 10 pro and we have a custom start menu we upgraded from 1703 deployed by group policy. The custom start menu will display when windows starts when connected to our domain but when off domain the custom start menu will disappear and random
tiles will be shown instead of the start menu

anyone seen this ?

Thanks

Stuart