How to Edit the Windows 10 Start Menu

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Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.

I would like to inform you that there is no option to edit start menu, The Start menu is the main gateway to your computer's programs, folders, and settings. It's called a menu because it provides a list of choices, just as a restaurant menu does. And as "start" implies, it's often the place that you'll go to start or open things. The Start menu is the main gateway to your computer's programs, folders, and settings. It's called a menu because it provides a list of choices, just as a restaurant menu does. And as "start" implies, it's often the place that you'll go to start or open things.

I would also inform you that the default apps cannot be uninstall and you will see uninstall option on default apps.

The combining feature should come within application for EX: Microsoft Office

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Thank you Mohammed.

I would like to raise three points.

When installing Windows 10, an app folder for Asus Update is in my start menu with the uninstall program within the folder. Running the uninstall program produces the message that the uninstall program could not be launched, class not registered. Normaly, I would just delete this folder, an action that Microsoft has denied me.

Also, I am sure the Microsoft is signed up to the principle of continous improvement. Denying users useful functions that were historicaly available does not meet this principle and many people, myself included, would see this as a retrograde step.

Lastly, I understand that options to remove unwanted apps that do not have an uninstall program is available through using PowerShell. I do not want and will never need, for example, Groove Music and XBox. Surely the option to remove unwanted apps should be readily available to me on my machine without using specialised knowledge?

Are there plans to improve your service by including the above options? If not, could you raise this issue with the relevent people and argue strongly for the changes to be made, please?

Thank you.

PeterW

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Hello Mohammed.

In your reply, you stated that ' I would like to inform you that 'there is no option to edit start menu'

I have found that I can group programs and delete redundant programs by going to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs. This appears to be the location of the start menu tree.

Could you note this information for future requests that you may receive.

Could you also respond to the question in my earlier post: 'Are there plans to improve your service by including the above options? If not, could you raise this issue with the relevent people and argue strongly for the changes to be made, please?'

Thank you.

PeterW

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There are two legacy Start Menu structures that remain for me in my own PC, which was upgraded from Windows 7 Pro:

• C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Pro grams contains customizations that I had made only to my own user profile, such as unique program folder groupings and startup items;
• C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs contains menu items that were previously available to All Users.

These folders and shortcuts appear to be read by Windows 10 at login, and combined with those programs in the Windows database for "All Apps". So you can change the organization of "All Apps" pretty significantly.

I haven't found a way to Pin programs directly to the left menu, which appears to be reserved for items such as "Recently Used" or selectable folders.

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If you right click any of the program shortcuts in the main menu section and choose Open Location, it will take you to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs. I can drag shortcuts into that folder and they will show up in the left menu. However, when I pin them to the Start Menu, they seem to disappear from the left menu. Worst case is that I can re-drag the original shortcut back to the Programs folder and then I have links in both locations.

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Thank you I was looking for that. You might want to state that this is a hidden folder, and to view in Explorer you need to click on View and check the Hidden files box on the far right side.

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Greetings from the future :)

Things have changed. We're now using the Anniversary Update of August 2016 and we have two vertical sections to the 'left' column of the Start menu - Recently added, and Most used.

Their location is as cited: C:\Users\Xxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Being for 'system' use, I doubt that they can be manipulated. One aspect of the Most used section is that it's here of among the Start tiles - one or the other. Use a program and it goes in the 'left' column; pin it to the Start tiles and it disappears from Most used.

I say 'left' because there is a new left column now - and I'd like to configure that. Some of my machines have Settings in it, some don't :|

Ideas, anyone?

[UPDATE I had a brainwave. Just lift the top edge of the whole Start Menu, tiles and all, and more icons in the real left column will be revealed. HTH ]

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Hi, Peter:

Have you noticed that most used does not mean by you?

I love 1607, and its subsequent updates (yes, even the hamburger menus). If you go to the menus for Settings, Personalization, and Start, you'll probably find that turning off all the junk (tiles, suggestions, most used, recently added, and recently opened) gets rid of most of Windows 10's "idiot lights" that assume you don't know how to look up an item in a menu or remember what you recently opened. Even better, you can scroll the full menu immediately after clicking the Windows key/Start button- no annoying extra clicks. Choose which folders appear on Start, however, is the closest you'll get to pinning items under the hamburger menu.

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How to Edit the Windows 10 Start Menu

Source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/edit-start-menu-left-column-windows-10/c12a05e7-61d9-49cc-bda3-3dc20decd8f8

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