Windows 10: Windows Apps (Packages) on the Start Menu

Program icons for the Start menu are stored in 2 places:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\ProgramsC:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

However, I cannot find the link/icon for 5 HP supplies utilities. On example is "HP PC Hardware Diagnostics Windows".

I looked in the registry and determined it is a Windows Package, located in the registry under "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ActivatableClasses" and run from

C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\AD2F1837.HPPCHardwareDiagnosticsWindows_1.6.8.0_x64__v10z8vjag6ke6\

So my question is:

a) How does it end up on the Start Menu, and

b) Can it be moved to one of the Start Menu folders?

Windows 10 version 19042.804

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Hi, @Brink:

My caffeine titer is low, so I must be missing some blatant, basic step to add a shortcut to my account's All Apps list in the Start menu (Option1).
The new process both for creating shortcuts and for adding/removing items to the Win10 start menu has me flummoxed.
Your tutorials are always "topnotch", so this must be a cockpit error on my part.

>I would like to follow the suggestion on page 1 of the wushowhide.diagcab tutorial to add a shortcut in All Apps for my account.

I have d/l the wushowhide.diagcab and saved it to my downloads folder.
I have done Step 1 on Page 1 of THIS tutorial to navigate to the Start Menu Programs folder.
But HOW do I actually complete Step 3 to create a shortcut and then add it to the Start Menu "All Apps"??

I think I need to first somehow create a shortcut for the .cab file and then add it to All Apps in the start menu???

Please advise.

Thanks!
MM

P.S. I have been postponing the probably inevitable installation of Class Shell.
I would rather not have to install a 3rd-party program to be able to perform basic Windows tasks.
But this new workflow in Win10 for a basic functionality might force me to do it.
Sigh.