Registry Editor Missing from Administrative Tools in Start menu

Hi Guys,

I hope I've come to the right place to share this mystery with.

Basically, I just discovered that my Registry Editor is missing from the Administrative Tools in the Start menu as shown in the image below:



However, when I view Administrative Tools in File Explorer, it's right there in the list as shown here:



Isn't that a mystery? Does anyone know how I can get the Registry Editor back on the Administrative Tools in my Start menu?


Regards,
Andrew

I previously did, but I would've thought with two recent Windows 10 Update the Registry Editor would be on the list anyway since other people's Windows 10 Start Menus do. I don't understand why mine does not.

YanAndrew said:

I hope I've come to the right place to share this mystery with. Basically, I just discovered that my Registry Editor is missing from the Administrative Tools in the Start menu...

Brink said:

Did you add another Registry Editor shortcut to the All Apps list in your Start menu? Doing so, could break other instances of it in All Apps.

Interesting, I've just looked at mine and it's missing too....



...turns out that having it pinned to Start as a tile is what made it disappear for me. As soon as I unpinned it from start it was back in All apps.



Edit: then I was able to pin it to Start again without making it disappear from All apps - what an odd bug

Brink said:

Interesting that pinning it to Start would break it so easily.

I don't know when it disappeared, maybe during an update? But I've now pinned it back to Start and restarted explorer.exe without it disappearing from All apps.

Edit: and it is still there after a full Restart from cold.

All my systems have Regedit pinned to Start. I've just checked another system and it's missing there too, this one is on 1903. The same fix worked for that. Odd.

@YanAndrew has found an interesting bug, fortunately one with an easy fix. Let's hope it is a permanent one

bro67 said:

Reg Edit was never a part if admin tools or Control Panel.

I thought it was, so I checked my collection of VMs. No, you're right. It wasn't in XP, W7 or W8.

But seems it was added to Control Panel > Administrator Tools for W10.