Windows 10: How to unpin a group of Tiles or Folders from Windows 10 Start Menu

Pinning several tiles in Windows 10 is super easy, and the same can be said for unpinning tiles one-by-one. However, what if you’re the type of person with several tiles that you would prefer to get rid of with just [...]

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Windows 10 - cannot delete or unpin a tile from the Start Menu

Hello,

Is there any "back door" way of removing a Windows 10 Start Menu tile? I can't get rid of one particular tile that’s pinned to my Start Menu in Windows 10. The method that should work, doesn't work.

• If I right-click that particular tile, I see the "Unpin from Start" option, but if I click that, the tile stays there.
  
  If I right-click the tile again, I see the "Unpin from Start" option again, but if I click that again,... etc etc etc.
  
  It's an unending circle. The tile is still there even after attempting to unpin it, then shutting down and restarting the PC.
  
• This is a tile that was set up initially to point to a folder then named (let’s call it) "Folder OldName". I subsequently renamed that folder to (let’s call it) "Folder NewName".
  
• It seems that this tile knows that there once was a folder named "Folder OldName", but now that the folder's been renamed, the tile can neither find nor forget the old folder name; and (perhaps for that reason) the tile won't allow itself to be unpinned.
  
• I've searched everywhere, in the Windows Registry and on the C: disk, for anything still named "Folder OldName", hoping that I could delete any hidden references to it; but nothing shows up.
  
• So I'm stuck with a tile that points to nowhere, that doesn't do anything, and that I can't remove in any way.

Does anyone know, please, where the Start Menu keeps its "records" of Start Menu tile instances and properties, and how I can erase the relevant records and/or delete the problem tile?

Thanks in anticipation.

 

Unpinning tiles from partial start menu

Hi Guys,

Ok im having a bit of an issue with my Windows 10 1703 start menu. I've set up a partial start menu where 2 groups are locked and i don't want any of my staff to pin or unpin from these groups. When they right click on the tiles they don't have the option
to unpin put if they locate corresponding software in the main start menu and right click they are given the option to unpin and can do so and because the group is locked this tile cannot be re pinned in that group. Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated
as this is literally the last thing i need to figure out before migrating from 7 to 10.

 

Windows 10 - cannot delete or unpin a tile from the Start Menu

my problem is not a broken "app" tile, it is a "folder" tile. I have tried all of the above suggestions, but no icon appears for a windows explorer start screen folder mentioned above. I have deleted the folder the
tile used to point to and do not know its original name, so I can't recreate it and then unpin it.