Windows 10 Start Menu problem

[Chuckster]

I am trying to deploy the below as my start menu.

 

Can anyone see what's wrong with it?

 

I don't get my shortcut links such as shutdown and restart to work (despite copied in the Start Menu folder), and what should be a slim start menu is wide and where the icons should sit go over to the right.

 

 

Edited March 21, 2019 by Chuckster

[Chuckster]

MODS... How can I paste my code without it screwing up the formatting?

 

The

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[Rob_D]

double carriage returns have worked to fix my [code ] tags before.

[DJ-1701]

Click the A/A button on the top left, then do you

 and click the A/A button again.


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[Arthur]

	xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout"
xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout" Version="1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification">


	
		
			
				
			
			
				
					
					
					
					
				
				
				
				
			
			
				
				
			
			
				
				
				
				
			
		
	

 

The

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I've found copying-and-pasting code seems to work better in the 'Standard Editor', although @DJ-1701's solution should also work.
 

[Arthur]

Do your settings shortcuts (shutdown, logoff etc.) all point the same EXE?

[bknaggs]

I found when I was testing Windows 10 Start menu XML that you couldn't control the width of what was presented. I think it is classed as a user preference that isn't controllable through group policy.

[Chuckster]

Do your settings shortcuts (shutdown, logoff etc.) all point the same EXE?

Yes, they do.

 

It's shutdown.exe -l shutdown -s -t 00 -f etc...

 

I found when I was testing Windows 10 Start menu XML that you couldn't control the width of what was presented. I think it is classed as a user preference that isn't controllable through group policy.

 

Surely the start menu should look like what's stated in the XML, with the ability to then allow users to faff with it...?

[bknaggs]

Surely the start menu should look like what's stated in the XML, with the ability to then allow users to faff with it...?

 

You'd hope so but it's not how Microsoft have done it. If you look at the XML there's no position information for each group of tiles relative to each other.

[jessica]

We have a slim start menu. I believe its the StartTileGroupsColumnCount that stops it taking up half the screen.

 

[JRowley]

Have you tried layout the start menu how you want it and then extracting it with powershell?

 

Export-StartLayout –path .xml -UseDesktopApplicationID

 

If nothing else you can check things like Column/Row settings and should be able to get the correct width.

Edited March 22, 2019 by JRowley

[Arthur]

Export-StartLayout –path .xml

Worth adding -UseDesktopApplicationID in there too?

 

Export-StartLayout –path .xml -UseDesktopApplicationID

 

www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-10/196937-windows-10-start-menu-how-everyone-else-doing-2.html#post1708340

 

[JRowley]

Worth adding -UseDesktopApplicationID in there too?

 

Export-StartLayout –path .xml -UseDesktopApplicationID

 

www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-10/196937-windows-10-start-menu-how-everyone-else-doing-2.html#post1708340

 

 

Yes sorry, it is best to use the switch. Though you can still use both DesktopApplicationID and DesktopApplicationLinkPath it is best to use DesktopApplicationID going forward.

[Chuckster]

I've tried following the instructions but to no avail.

 

My start menu looks like ..

 

 

 

My recreated XML but not so many pinned apps...

 

[gsk]

I'm sorry this isn't an answer to your actual problem, but FWIW I got rid of all the tiles and then exported the layout with PS. I've made more use of the desktop if people want a more visual layout of applications.