"Most Used" function only shows Apps, not Programs

Here's mine.

You said:

Perhaps clearing the Start menu's history will fix it? To do so:
Open PC Settings, click Personalization, click Start, then slide the "Show most used apps" and "Show recently added apps" sliders to the off position then back on. Your most used apps will now display some random metro apps.

This did not work for me. Is there a "don't show me again" list that I can clear in the windows 10 registry? What used to work for fixing this issue in windows 7 does not work in Windows 10. It seems that when you click on "do not show in this list again" the shortcut is banished to a start menu black hole that does not give up its settings even when the user explicitly requests the reset via the UI slider switches. This almost HAS to be a bug, but I would like to know where the setting is so that I can manually zero it out.

You said:

Perhaps clearing the Start menu's history will fix it? To do so:
Open PC Settings, click Personalization, click Start, then slide the "Show most used apps" and "Show recently added apps" sliders to the off position then back on. Your most used apps will now display some random metro apps.

Nope. Still only shows metro apps for me.

Ztruker said:

Interesting, none of my programs (Seamonkey, Everything Search, CCleaner, etc) show up under Most used either and I use them all the time.

I agree there is a bug of some kind here.

I agree, some sort of bug.

Some items I have never used show in the Most Used list yet whereas other items I have used frequently never show in the list. I have also tried every possible solution here and elsewhere.

For me it seems to depend on where the program was started from shortcut on desktop will not always shows, but if I start from all programs more likely it does.

Strange. All six here are conventional programs.

I have this problem, too. (Surface 3 with Windows 10 Home with latest updates applied)

The start menu "Most used" list does not show the programs that I use the most. The programs that I use regularly (like Chrome, NP++, Gimp) do not show up in that "Most used" list. Instead, that "Most used" list includes apps like "Calculator", "Alarms & Clock", and "Paint" which are apps that I have actually NEVER used!

So, in my experience, the "Most used" list in the Windows 10 start menu is very broken.

Brink said:

If you like, you could "Pin to Start" the apps you use the most as an alternative to make using them easier and faster. :)

'Pin to Start' and 'Unpin from Start' items in Windows 10

Yes, thanks, I am aware of that. Pinning to start is not the problem.

I would prefer if the "Most used" applications list worked properly. Why? Well, because, using my keyboard, I like to hit the Windows key to launch the start menu, then use the arrow keys to find the program I want to start.. This, in my experience, is the fastest way to launch a program using the keyboard (and this method works great in Windows 7 and earlier). But, in Windows 10, because the left side of the start menu is basically useless to me, I have to spend extra time navigating with my arrow keys to the right side of the start menu. (Sorry, I'm sure that sounds petty! I admit: I will survive! Maybe I'll even find more efficient ways to launch my favourite programs?)

It's also discomforting to see a feature fail so badly: listing the "Most used" programs is not a very complicated feature. If that is failing, what else is failing? What kind of house of cards are we living in?! :)