Windows 10: Windows 11 cannot remove some duplicate shortcuts from the start menu

I want to remove a couple shortcuts from my start-menu. Usually this isn't a problem since I can right-click on them and click the "delete"button, or navigate to the path where the shortcut is located. This is usually C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu But for some shortcuts this method doesn't work. Further more, more repeated icons appeared.

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Start menu duplicate Shortcuts

This answer is for Windows build 15063 (Creator Update)

If Charlie C's answer doesn't work (in my case It's even get worse, having triplicate to three tiles per shortcut), please try this:

1. Go to the start menu shortcut folder (e.g. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs). Locate the problematic shortcut, made a copy of it to the same folder.
   
2. Unpin the last problematic tile in the start menu. You will notice that instead of the latest one, the first duplicate disappear instead.
   
3. Go back to the start menu folder, delete the original problematic shortcut. (keep the copy).
   
4. Back to start menu, the remaining problematic tiles will change their name to the name of the copy of the shortcut (something like - Copy).
   
5. Now you have one less duplicate tiles. Repeat step 1-4 until a single tile of the shortcut left.
   

 

Remove/Unpin duplicate icons in Start menu

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Start menu duplicate Shortcuts

After the last Windows update (Creators Update) I have a serious problem in the start menu...

Some shortcuts are duplicate.





So far I tried various methods without any luck:

• Remove from start (I removed 1 icon and all the duplicates vanish at the same time), then I pin again the shortcut (all the duplicates came back to life)..
  
• Delete Shortcut form the folder (all the shortcuts vanish), then if I pin again, all the duplicates came back plus 1 new shortcut (so if I had 3 shortcut before deleting, now I'll have 4).
  
• I tried cleaning using CCleaner without any luck
  
• I tried to search in regedit also.
  

I forgot to mention that all the duplicates (for the same program) have the same path and the same shortcut, also some of those icons are unusable (not clickable, nor draggable...

Any advice? it's really disturbing...