Unpin Tiles From Start Menu not working

[tanjunior]

Ran "Unpin Tiles From Start Menu" from GUI version, On powershell window it says Unpinning all tiles from the start menu and _ flashing non stop.

Waited for an hour nothing happens

[Sycnex]

Did you run the powrshell script as an administrator in ISE or VSCode?

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 Ran "Unpin Tiles From Start Menu" from GUI version, On powershell window it says Unpinning all tiles from the start menu and _ flashing non stop.

Waited for an hour nothing happens

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[zeeike]

I have the same issue. This is fresh install of Win10 Home with all of the updates and Feature Packs installed. Have tried running via Powershell ISE as administrator and via right-click on "Start" button and click "Windows Powershell (Admin) Win 10 Home. Version 1909 OS Build 18363.476

Edit: It worked fine on my desktop PC before I installed the 1909 Feature Update. Will test after the update installs

Edit 2: After installing Feature Update 1909, Unpinning Tiles from Start Menu does nothing now :(

[tanjunior]

Did you run the powrshell script as an administrator in ISE or VSCode?

Ran as admin from windows powershell

[Stoncoder]

facing same issue followed all the methods correctly many times

[madworm]

The link referenced to "superuser.com" shows a way to list the available actions one can trigger on start menu items.

https://superuser.com/questions/1068382/how-to-remove-all-the-tiles-in-the-windows-10-start-menu

When the following code snippet is run as the currently logged in non-admin user, it shows an action "Un&pin to Start Menu" (replace Keep with something that is currently pinned, e.g. Chrome). Unfortunately using this action with the snippet to call it errors out as normal user.

(New-Object -Com Shell.Application).
     NameSpace('shell:::{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}').
     Items() | ?{$_.Name() -match 'Keep.*'} |
     %{ $_.Verbs() }

When the same is run with admin privileges, the "Un&pin to Start Menu" is GONE. I think, therefore unpinning currently fails for the debloater script.

[cos-public]

Can confirm. Unpin doesn't work on fresh Win 10 Pro install on several computers. From power shell with admin privileges.

[madworm]

I ran this on 1909 EDU

[github731]

I can also confirm this does not work on 1909 win 10 pro even in admin mode

[farag2]

This works: https://github.com/farag2/Windows-10-Setup-Script/blob/master/Win%2010.ps1#L1923