On 2018/05/17, Paul wrote:

That will help account for the "nice round numbers" you
see for .edb file size.

I don't disagree, Mr. Paul, where both the file size and file dates seem to
be pre-ordained in that orthodox (aka right side) Windows 10 tile menu you
found.

I'm curious how you found that database, because I didn't find it in my
searching, where all I found were (as noted in the OP) allusions to the
binary proprietary database.

Of course, once you KNOW the names and locations, it's easy to find on the
net, but how did you find that orthodox tile-menu hive so easily, when I
couldn't (and when nobody else here seems to have known about it).

Did you ALREADY know about that orthodox hive before I had asked?

That's a hint that *something* is stored in there. And if you
only needed 1KB of information per entry, then you could
store a thousand entries in that much space.

There are plenty of hints on the net that the Win10 orthodox tile-menu hive
is limited to 500 entries, which would seem to indicate that each entry is
a certain size, and only 500 are allowed.

The odd thing is that the date of the file doesn't change when you change
the orthodox Win10 tile menu. That's an indication that something 'secret'
is underfoot - don't you think?