Windows 10: W10's Start Menu keep getting rearranged often these days.

It is quite annoying. I have to keep rearranging my stuff back! It had been happening the last several months and getting worse more often. Do I really have to use a third party Start Menu to avoid this? I am trying to avoid third parties since Microsoft loves to break things. :Windows 10 is Professional v10.0.19045.4894 from last Tuesday's updates.Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :

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STOP rearranging my Start Menu. PLEASE.

Why does my Start Menu rearrange itself every so often, coupled with the addition of several new suggested app tiles which, when I click, take me to the Windows Store to purchase? The rearrangement is very annoying in itself but the fact that 3 or 4 'app
suggestion' tiles suddenly appear in my Start Menu really debases Windows 10 and the Start Menu experience. It's actually like I'm using some freeware operating system.

Yes, sync settings is off; no, I do not have app suggestions turned on and yes I am running the latest update - always do. Even so, the new Start Menu layout that suddenly appears looks nothing like that of my other W10 devices, so it's not syncing to anything
I own.

This all happens on a latest model Microsoft device. Imagine my Start Menu shows on the big screen when I'm doing a sales presentation and the Candy Crush and Dragon Mania Legends icon shows up?

 

Resizing, reorganizing, & rearranging W10's start menu hard?

Juliet, I did all that. I was wondering why my Start menu is acting weird these days. What updates caused the changes? Is there a way to revert them without losing fixes?

 

Cannot rearrange the tiles on start menu (W10)

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

As per the issue description start menu is not working on your newly upgraded Windows 10 computer. The issue could be if some system files or some settings get corrupted. So, try to follow the steps provided below and see if it helps you to fix the issue.

Method 1: Try to run the below mentioned command.

• Open the Task manager. Here’s a tip: Press CTRL+Shift+ESC.
  
• Click File > Run New Task
• Make sure you have a check mark beside “Create this task with administrative privileges”
  
• Type Powershell
• Type the following in the Powershell prompt:
  
  Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
  
• Close the Powershell window
• Reboot

Method 2

If issue persists, try to check the system files are they working fine or not and to check that try to run
System File Checker (SFC) tool.



SFC scan will scans all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with correct Microsoft versions.

How to use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files on Windows 8.

• Press Windows key and
  X at the same time.
• Choose Command Prompt (Admin) from the context menu.
• In the command prompt, type sfc /scannow and hit Enter.
• Exit command prompt.

For more information refer to this link:




Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files

Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files - Microsoft Support

Method 3

If issue persists try to create new user profile as an administrator and see if issue persists in new user profile. For creating new user profile you may refer to the steps provided in the article mentioned below.

• 
  Press Windows key + R
  
• 
  Type control userpasswords2 and click OK
  
• 
  Click on add under users tab
  
• 
  Click the option, "Sign-in without a Microsoft account
  
• 
  Click on Local account
  
• 
  Choose a name for the account
  
• 
  Add password if you want to
  
• 
  Apply and click OK.
  

For more clarification you may refer to the article mentioned below.



Create a local user account in Windows 10

To know more about Windows 10 I would suggest you to refer the article
Get Started with Windows 10. Hope this link will provide you more information
about Windows 10.

Hope this would help. If issue still persists post back with current status of your computer and result of the proposed suggestion, we will be happy to assist you.

Regards,