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Backup, Restore, and Reset your Start Menu layout in Windows 10 with these Simple Steps



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How to Backup, Restore, Reset Start Menu layout in Windows 10



The tool allows you to create multiple backups so that you can create backups of the Start layout before and after making changes to the Start menu layout. Restoring the Start menu layout is also effortless with this tool. There is even an option to reset the Start menu layout.


It even lets you create Multiple backups under different names so that you can have different layout backups. The tool also lets you reset the start menu layout and it can be, if you choose to, also run using the command prompt.


This article covers how to reset Windows 10 Start menu layout to default. Start menu of Windows 10 lets you pin apps as tiles, resize the added live tiles, change their positions, turn live tile on/off etc. Though it works pretty good, sometimes you might experience the problem in accessing the right-click menu for live tiles and more. In such a case, resetting Start menu to default layout may come in handy.


I wanted to apply a custom start menu to existing users after a Windows 10 upgrade. The users would be upgrading to 1803, but I did not see HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CloudStore\Store\Cache\DefaultAccount\$start.tilegrid$windows.data.curatedtilecollection.root present in the 1803 registry while it is on my 1709 system. Is there anyway to do this? On my 1709 system I tried copying over the relevant Start Layout files to the profile I wanted to change but no joy.


Normally, it works great. However, at times the Start menu will become messed up, broken or unusable and these tiles don't work exactly as expected. In that case, you may want to know how to reset Windows 10 Start menu to default. Although Microsoft doesn't provide a quick way, you can reset Windows 10 Start menu layout to default via Windows 10 Registry Editor.


Until now, you have finished all the steps to reset Windows 10 Start menu layout. Then you can compare the previous Start menu and the current one, and you will find that the Windows 10 Start menu is reset to default.


The Backup Start Menu Layout application is a portable program so that you do not have to install it before you can use it. In addition to multiple backups, you can also use the tool to reset the start menu to default settings anytime you want.


A lot of customization is possible on Windows 11/10. Once you design the layout that suits you, you must save its layouts for the future because someone who has administrative rights on your PC can change the layout easily. Also, a major update of Windows may reset the Start menu layout. 2ff7e9595c


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