Easy.Īs with all things Windows 10, there is a surprise in store. Windows will show a nice cleaned combined view. The below image outlines this process in real time, with a folder named James in both my user profile, and then Common Start Menu location. I wrote about this a little more previously here. The Start Menu will combine all results from both of these locations and display a single folder depth (1 folder deep) aggregation of all shortcuts in all folder structures below these directories. The Common users Start Menu Directory %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs This location is also the area where “Tiles” (The right hand side) are pulled from when defining a custom Start Menu Layout.Exception to this being if you define a Mandatory Profile for your users This is pulled from the Default User Profile on the server where the profile is created. The Users profile location %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs.The left-hand side of the Start Menu is made up of two main sources of “shortcuts” This may be well known, and I am simply thick, but here goes the outline. Easy you say (easy I said)….well it is, as long as you understand the limitations and behaviours around how the Start Menu behaves Vs what happens in the file system. “Add a custom folder to the Windows 10 Start Menu”. Here was the simple request spawning from a Citrix Discussions post. We beat the same wall on this with two different heads. Big shout out to James Rankin who was my first point of call for any weird Windows 10 junk that I couldn’t wrap my head around. The latest one for me is all around the creation of custom folders within the Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 Start Menu, a simple request, that has next to nothing documented (that I could find) around the behaviours and expected outcomes. Every corner is odd behaviour or barely documented fun which can lead to a high level of “WTF” moments. The Windows 10 Start Menu is like the gift that keeps giving.
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