{"id":2897,"date":"2017-05-22T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2017-05-20T15:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T13:39:58","slug":"windows-10-v1703-start-menu-tiles-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/05\/22\/windows-10-v1703-start-menu-tiles-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 V1703: Start menu tiles missing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some Windows 10 users are facing a strange problem after upgrading from Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update) to Windows 10 Version 1703 (Creators Update) \u2013 some start menu tiles are suddenly gone. <\/p>\n

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That's the issue<\/h2>\n

A user reported this issue in April 2017 here<\/a> in Microsoft's Answers forum. He decided to upgrade a machine with Windows 10 1607 to Windows 10 Version Creators Update. The installation went trough, but after login all user specific tiles has been gone within his start menu. <\/p>\n

Only tiles from pre-installed apps has been visible. He checked the \\ProgramData\\<\/em> folder, but the shortcuts has been there. He checked Programs & Features, but nothing has been uninstalled. <\/p>\n

Then he decided to give Classic Shell a try \u2013 and voila, all start menu shortcuts was shown in Classic shell's start menu. I've seen this behavior sometimes forums. Whilst the start menu from Windows 7 or from Classic Shell was solid as a rock, Windows 10 start menu (and the XAML trash) was always a trouble maker. <\/p>\n

God Mode was the root cause<\/h2>\n

Another user posted his findings here<\/a> in Microsoft's Answers forum. After he found a similar behavior he analyzed the situation and found 'God Mode' as the root cause. Some internet articles are showing the trick to establish a special short cut, called 'God mode' in start menu using the folder: <\/p>\n

%AppData%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs<\/em><\/p>\n

After removing this God mode entry, Windows 10 Creators Update was able again to show all start menu entries an tiles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some Windows 10 users are facing a strange problem after upgrading from Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update) to Windows 10 Version 1703 (Creators Update) \u2013 some start menu tiles are suddenly gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,2],"tags":[47,598],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-windows","tag-issue","tag-windows-10-creators-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}