Another Start Menu thread! Sorry......

[Jawloms]

Like so many people on here and everywhere I am struggling with the Windows 10 Start Menu. I have;

• Logged in as a user
  
• Set the Start Menu to how I want it to be
  
• run 'Export-StartLayout -Path ".\startlayout.xml"'
  
• Copied that file to a share which everyone has read access to
  
• Pointed to its UNC in GP -> User Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar -> Start Layout
  
• 
  

When I log in as any user who has that group policy assigned to them, the only thing which appears in the Start Menu is the calculator, which is detailed completely differently from everything else in the XML file. I don't redirect the Start Menu. There are no errors in a GP Results wizard. I've spent ages Googling and am struggling to find much. I don't want to go down the Classic Shell route. My xml looks like this;

 

 

Has anyone got any suggestions please?

 

Thank you

 

Stuart

[alfatec]

Try it without Internet Explorer. I had the same issue. It seems if you have one dodgy tile then none of the redirected start tiles work. I removed Internet Explorer and it all works fine now.

[Jawloms]

Thanks, but no difference.

[SHimmer45]

for the IE shortcut try using DesktopapplicationLinkPath="location of IE shortcut"

which in my case is "%alluserprofile%\microsoft\windows\start menu\etc etc\internet explorer.lnk

[alfatec]

I would try just Office applications first to ensure you know your start menu is working fine then add applications on after. What account are you using to create the XML. Ensure you delete the profiles before you test with a new xml

as the old profile will show the old start menu.

[Jawloms]

I'm using a domain admin account to create the XML file. I'm then logging on using a test student account. I've removed everything from it now except anything to do with Office and it's just coming up blank. I am deleting the test student profile from the machine everytime I change something so that it has to re-create it all.

[Jawloms]

Found it! If you have "Remove common program groups from Start Menu" enabled in group policy, it prevents the tiles appearing.

[Arthur]

Found it!

There are some other gotchas too (listed towards the bottom of this page)...

 

https://jprudente.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/customizing-the-windows-10-start-menu-for-enterprises