In article , mick wrote:

This Win10 start menu, with respect to hierarchy, is almost no better than
a mobile-device menu. Sigh.

It all started with Windows 8 when MS decided that a desktop pc needed
to look like a mobile device.

I can't disagree with you, mick, in that this downward slide in "start
menu" functionality started long ago, where I fault the clueless users who
haven't rebelled sufficiently to make Microsoft think twice.

Sure, Classic Shell is a solution, and I, like many, used it, but I'm
trying to wrestle Windows 10 into behaving, having been burned recently
rather badly.

It's all a repeat of the past, in a way, in that I used to try to keep the
"Start Programs" menu clean of pollution in the olden days, but every
time I installed anything, the "Start PRograms" menu was littered with
the selfish debris of useless readme, website, uninstller, etc. garbage.

The simple solution, so simple it's genius in fact, was to avoid anything
that Microsoft created that any app knew about and had the ability to
pollute. It's like having my own alley in NY City that nobody knows about,
hence they don't dump all their garbage there.

The good news, if there is any, of this Microsoft tiled start menu is that
it doesn't seem to be polluted by programs. Is that an accurate
observation?

Do programs NOT pollute this Win 10 tiled start menu?
(They sure seem to be avoiding it in my installations.)

How?
Why?

Since the urge of all programs is to pollute your start menu, how and why
does my Microsoft tiled start menu NOT get polluted every time I install
something?