Hey Brink,
I tried rebooting, tried a registry cleaning. rebooted. no help. then today did a mammoth [45 minutes] win 10 upgrade. Now the All Apps is working like it should. go figure. thanks...

I suppose you could pin those apps to Start to use for now until you can get them to show in All Apps.
>>>> no that is part of the problem. Pin to Start has no effect on anything for me UNLESS it...

Do you have Corel, Cloudmark and APC pinned to Start?

>>Well, pin to start only works for items already in the All Apps list. since they dont appear i cannot pin to start.

I see their...

Brink -- attached screenshots as requested.

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this is the ProgramData ... Start Menu, the Users ...Start Menu, and the part of the All Apps list for B and C;
Focus on: Clockwork...

Are you able to manually remove the folder? you ask .... there is no folder to remove. did a search. not there! searched thru registry for any key that mentioned the app or the folder. not...

all links are in the
%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

folder only and not any subfolders thereof. Even weirder is that the All Apps shows a folder that does not exist ... i...

Yes. I limited my adding to the ProgramData ... and ignored the User/ ... folder

sorry you have completely misunderstood from the start. I am trying to *add* links to the All Apps list. Which has only 220 entries so there is room to add! I have added the links into the Start...

Yes, i said that I did do that. And that list includes links that I have put into the Start Menu folder AND that do *NOT* appear in the All Apps list in win 10 start screen. So how is that...

users/default start menu is clear. Again the problem that i see is that start links show up in the listing of Get-startapps but do not show up in the actual all apps list. Measure says i...

Many, many thanks for posting this thread. when i ran Get-StartApps i had like 700+ entries; deleted a whole bunch of things and got down to 150 at which point i did get some of the links i was...