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Shortcut to batch file cannot be pinned to Win10 Start menu
After you create the shortcut go to Properties and in the Target field add cmd /c "path", then you can pin it by right clicking on the shortcut and selecting Pin ...
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Can't Pin Some Applications to Start Menu in Windows 10
The issue I think arises due to that shortcut not being in the Programs links directory first.
Follow this:
Copy the shortcut to %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
It should now show ...
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KDE: disable super_L (windows key) key shortcut as menu launcher
In KDE Plasma 5.8, the super/win key is also used to trigger the launcher, when pressed and released without combining it with another key. To disable the feature,
put this into ~/.config/kwinrc:
[...
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Is "Recent Documents" no longer provided in Windows 10 Start Menu?
I believe the "new thinking" at Microsoft during the redesign of the Start Menu was that if you want to access "files", then open File Explorer to access them, instead of the Start Menu.
To that end, ...
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Blank start menu icons on Windows 10
I use Windows 10 Creator Update 1703 and after moving a folder I had some blank icons too.
I tried a lot of things like the "IconCache.db" deletion procedure without success...
The only solution I ...
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Is "Recent Documents" no longer provided in Windows 10 Start Menu?
Method 1: Use the Run box
Open the Run box with the keyboard shortcut Winkey+R
Enter shell:recent
The folder listing all your recent items will open. The list can be quite long and may contain ...
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Windows 10 Taskbar Icon Highlight Sticks
Alright, I figured it out. All you need to do is hover over any un-opened application, make sure it's highlighted, and hold shift and right click ONCE. This might also be the problem that caused the ...
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How to get Chrome favicons to appear in Windows 10 start menu?
It looks like this issue is caused by a quirk in the standard way Windows 10 picks an icon for a tile. I found the following explanation by "Leo Vr" on the Chrome Help Forum:
The big Google-"icon" ...
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Icons not showing in windows 10 search
I post this as a tentative answer. Votes will tell whether it works for many people or not. I had the same problem: Windows 10 search would not show icons for pre-installed Windows apps such as ...
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How to remove all the tiles in the Windows 10 start menu?
WARNING: The script runs without confirmation and feedback. It worked for me (see PS2), but I don't know if it would work for everybody.
From this and this, I made the following script, which did the ...
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Windows 10 Start Menu can't have multiple shortcuts with the same target
As of Win 10 (1903) Aug 2019, it seems that the Start Menu will now allow duplicate shortcuts to the same .exe as long as the arguments are different. For this to work though, the "duplicate" ...
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Run as different user from Windows 10 Start Menu
You need to enable a registry value to show Run as different user in the right-click menu (in Windows 10 Start screen). Copy the following lines to Notepad, and save the file with .REG extension -- ...
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How to change default size of tile when using "Pin to Start" in Windows 10?
I did A LOT of research right after I saw this. Unfortunately it is not easily possible to set a default size because the pinning of a tile is hard-coded to be Medium Size every time. It is from what ...
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Icons not showing in windows 10 search
In my case.
Remove "Google Drive File Stream" (or, if you have it, Backup and Sync from Google) fixed the missing app icons in the dock.
Set the display scaling to 125% and then back to 100% ...
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How to remove all the tiles in the Windows 10 start menu?
I've come up with a lengthy but comprehensive script for this that removes all tiles, even those for apps that haven't been installed (Candy Crush, Netflix, etc.).
Copy the contents below and run from ...
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Windows 10 tile layout in Start Menu resets after reboot
If you are running Windows 10 Pro, the first thing to check is that the Start Layout group policy setting is not set under Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar. This setting is under both ...
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Icons not showing in windows 10 search
I had the exact same problem and the following steps seemed to work for me:
Search for "sysdm.cpl" via the Start Menu and open it up.
Click on "Advanced".
Under performance, click on "Settings".
Make ...
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Missing icons for Trusted Microsoft Store Apps in Start Menu search and taskbar
I don't know why this worked, I read it somewhere (I forget the exact source) but someone suggested removing the Google Drive File Stream application. I got fed up with this issue, and tried it on a ...
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Adding folder and shortcut to Windows 10 Start Menu
Rather than creating a new folder with a single shortcut, just copy the shortcut itself to the following location:
%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Right-click that shortcut on ...
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Where are ALL locations of Start Menu folders in Windows 10?
Although completely non-obvious, it is actually very simple.
Windows-R to open the run menu and type:
shell:programs. This opens the equivalent of C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\...
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Shortcut to batch file cannot be pinned to Win10 Start menu
Create a directory in
%appdata%/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/ (e.g. Custom);
Create a shortcut to a batch/executable/target in the directory;
2.1. (Optional) Wait for 5-20 seconds so the OS ...
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Windows 10 ShellExperienceHost crashes
I've been struggling with this for days and went through hundreds of pages of solutions. Nothing worked, until I hit this page, where at page 22 user PaulSturm recommended to run a repair using ...
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How to uninstall/remove "Snipping Tool" from start menu
Remove the shortcut from %programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories (You can find this folder from the Start Menu. See image at end.)
Wait for the Start Menu index to update ...
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Windows 10 Start Menu not showing all shortcuts?
Aha! I seem like an idiot now, answering my own question so soon after asking it, but hopefully this will help someone else. This post (which I had seen several times but thought I'd already tried) ...
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Remove Bing and Chat Icons from Windows 11 Start Menu Search Results
Okay so I figured out a way with the registry editor. Also I don't consider this a "hack" like one of the comments suggests as registry edits are pretty dang easy to add/remove and highly ...
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Cmder - how to add Windows 10 start menu tile?
Although you've solved this yourself, I thought I'd add a step that was preventing me from adding a Cmder shortcut to the start menu. I had forgotten to register it after I'd downloaded it. Per the ...
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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:
Go to ...
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Windows 10 Start Menu and Search not working
I've found that a good old system reboot will do the trick, however if that doesn't work, this fix has worked quite often.
If you can’t open or type anything in the Windows 10 search menu, please try ...
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Blank start menu icons on Windows 10
Well, I just restarted the explorer using task manager and the icons came back.
How to do this
You can open task manager in two ways:
Press CTRL+SHFT+ESC or
Right Click on the task bar and choose ...
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Windows 10 start menu not saving changes
Try renaming the Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CloudStore to something else, for example CloudStore.bak. Afterwards, log out and log in again. The key will ...
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