Windows 10: Windows 10 Start menu tile modification

Hi all, I hoping someone can help me with amending the start menu tiles.

We currently have a custom "layoutmodification.xml" file in the users profile, this is app. this displays IE and File explorer tiles in the start menu. I would like to remove IE, replace it with Edge but leave user customisations as they are.

I created a new layout file, and set this up via start layout group policy, but this wipes user customisations and also locks the start menu tiles. So this isn't an option. I have also replaced the entries in "Layoutmodification.xml" in the user file but the start menu tiles to do not change.



I'm just wondering if anyone has done something similar, I can post the current XML files if needed.



thanks

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