I can place a new folder or custom shortcut in the correct start menu location (current user or all users) but it will not appear in the All apps list. If I go to the folder or shortcut and right-click Pin to Start it will appear as a tile in the start menu, but still will not show up in the All apps list. I think this behavior started with Version 1511 since it was working for me in the previous version.
Hi, a quick test seems to show the same. The representation of traditional start menu items and structures in Win 10's start menu is (in my experience) garbage. And not just since the November upgrade. Sorry to have to say that, but it flattens all the subfolders inherited from a 'normal' menu used in Win 7 and 8, loses the sub-folders, including those created by each program's installation, leading to things like
Help
Help
Help
...
where each 'Help' is from a different program.
If you want a meaningful start menu without these quirks and oddities, try e.g. Classic Shell.
Sorry this did not work. This is a shortcut to a stand alone executable file, a program that is not installed in Windows. When I put the shortcut directly into either of the 2 folders you mentioned, or when I put the shortcut inside a new folder into either of the 2 folders you mentioned, I cannot get anything to show in the All apps list, only a tile on the right side of the Start Menu. My guess is this is a registry issue, but I do not know where or what to change.
Ok, there is a way for your portable program, if you really really want to do this using the Win 10 start menu. You probably won't believe it, but here it is (I've just done it to be sure).
1. Zip up your portable .exe
2. Get a copy of Nirsoft's zipinstall
3. Run zipinstall and 'install' the zip file you have created.
4. Create a shortcut to the exe in its installed location in these locations.
(I guess it would work with 1 but having put one in each and then deleted both, the shortcut still shows in the start menu- I'd guess until it's refreshed - maybe logon? Hmm..)
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
or:
C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Really I cannot recommend doing this, but at least it is somehow consistent with the program having to be installed.
It might also be worth trying what you did before, but log off, on and check the start menu again.
Personally, I avoid the Win 10 start menu altogether.
Congratulations! :)
Zipinstall is actually rather useful for odd freeware that comes in zips only, no installer.
It works for me also but if you nest folders within Start Menu\Programs then it doesn't...
These work:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Speccy64.lnk
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Portable programs\Speccy64.lnk
but this doesn't...
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Portable programs\Piriform\Speccy64.lnk
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