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[German<\/a>]Users upgrading to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update may facing a problem: On some machines apps are missing in start menu. I'm affected on two of my test machines. Now it seems that Microsoft acknowledged this issue and provided some workarounds. <\/p>\n

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What's the problem?<\/h2>\n

\"\"If you switch to Windows 10 Case Creators Update, you may find that apps are suddenly missing in the start menu. I am affected myself on test machines, as I wrote in the article Windows 10 V1709: Wrong App Title, Tiles with download arrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Startmenü <\/p>\n

Some tiles in the start menu were displayed with a (download) arrow. I know this behavior from earlier versions of Windows 10. But so far, the apps have been updated after some time. This was not the case with my test systems (the tiles hasn't been updated). And I recognized, that after rebooting the test machines, suddenly the apps has been removed from my start menu. But since these are test machines, I didn't go into the matter any more. I've put it on 'is just like that' and 'maybe something left from previous installations that causes this issue'. I also have the impression that these test installations run extremely slower than previous builds (these are real machines and VMs with 32-bit installations and limited resources). <\/p>\n

Microsoft confirmed this issue \u2026<\/h2>\n

Since October 21, 2017 there is a post Missing apps after installing Windows 10 Fall Creators Update<\/a> from a Microsoft employee within US Microsoft answers forum dealing with this issue (I stumbled upon this here<\/a>). Microsoft wrote:<\/p>\n

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After installing the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, some apps are missing from the Start Menu on some devices. The missing apps are no longer pinned in the Start Menu, nor are they in the list of apps. If I search for the app, Cortana is not able to find it and instead points me to the Store to install it. But the Store says that the app is already installed. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2026 there are workarounds proposed <\/h2>\n

Within the MS answers forum post, they wrote, that Microsoft is investigating reports of missing apps after installing the Fall Creators Update. They are proposing several workarounds. <\/p>\n

Fix #1: Repair or reset the apps<\/h3>\n

You can try the following troubleshooting steps to restore any missing apps:<\/p>\n