How can the Windows 10 Start menu be cleaned of uninstalled items?


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I've recently uninstalled all my games from this Windows 10 Pro machine. For some reason, many of their Start menu entries are still there and the Start menu itself does not allow for entry removal via context menu like previous Windows versions.

 

Does anyone know of a safe way to clear these out of there?

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You can right click on the shortcut ... go to More > Open File Location and remove the link 

...or you can manually go to these directories where they are kept (they could be in one or the other) and remove/organize/etc....

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

and...

%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

 

 

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Weird that no one has made a good application for editing the menu... unless I"m missing something...

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Been a while, but if I recall CrapCleaner has an option to scan the start menu for dead links. (System/user environment paths and such too, if needed.)

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6 hours ago, Jim K said:

You can right click on the shortcut ... go to More > Open File Location and remove the link 

...or you can manually go to these directories where they are kept (they could be in one or the other) and remove/organize/etc....

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

and...

%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

 

 

That works, thank you. How I didn't find that myself is beyond me. :)

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