On my new Windows 10 (v1803) PC there are a bunch of strange pre-installed applications, like Groove Music
. These clutter up the Start Menu > All Apps list with no hierarchy, just all on the same level. I'd like to organise these icons into separate, logical folders on the Start Menu.
Searching online I've found several articles describing how you can (attempt to) uninstall these Windows Store applications, but nothing about how to move or remove the icons. I'm not (yet!) looking to uninstall the app, just to organise the Start Menu into something more logical and less cluttered.
In previous versions of Windows, a user could create a folder called (say) Windows Stuff
in the appropriate path. Then you could drag the icons into this folder. After acknowledging the UAC prompt the icon has moved. Great! With these new Windows 10 "Universal" applications, however, I can't seem to do anything with them.
Things I have tried:
- Navigated to
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
. No icons or.lnk
files for these Windows metro apps are visible. - Navigated to
C:\Users\[ME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
. Likewise, none of these metro apps appear. - Used
WIN+R
and thenshell:AppsFolder
to actually view installed applications. Here I can see theZuneMusic
application (see below), but I can neither delete, uninstall or move it.
- Tried grabbing the icon directly in the Start Menu and dragging it...but a
No Entry
symbol appears and the icon cannot be moved or removed. - If you right-click the icon there is no option to
Move
orDelete
the icon (nor even toUninstall
the application, although this is not what I'm looking to do).
How do you get control over the Start Menu in Windows 10 (in a similar way to Windows 7 or Windows XP)?
Update
After many different searches, I stumbled on this old article which suggests organising these strange "Universal" Windows Store apps may not be possible.
The article is ~3 years old and from an earlier version of Windows 10 so hopefully (a) Microsoft have fixed this in v1803 and/or (b) any reader knows the technical steps required to organise these applications that the original author did not.
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