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Old May 17th 18, 07:26 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Suzuki Ichiro
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Default *Can someone shed light on how best to copy a Windows 10 start menu?*

On 2018/05/16, Suzuki Ichiro wrote:

*Can someone shed light on how best to copy a Windows 10 start menu?*
Googling, I find this very confusing answer:
https://superuser.com/questions/9604...-in-windows-10


So that all always benefit from every action of the team, just now
I updated that thread, anonymously, to add the following information:

It's true that the (some say silly) proprietary binary Win10 StartMenu
database is located at:
- **Orthodox:** %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\TileDataLayer\Database\

But that's not the whole story (AFAICT).

There is a right (orthodox) side to the Windows 10 start menu (groups &
tiles), and a left side (alphabetical words) ... where that left side
comprises at least two components (user and global).

So that makes for three locations, if you consider both the alphabetical
and orthodox portions of the Windows 10 Start Menu.

Left side (alphabetical app names):
- **Global:** %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\
- **User:** %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\

The orthodox (right side tiles) of the Win10 startmenu is the binary hive
at:
- **Orthodox:** %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\TileDataLayer\Database\ve datamodel.edb

Note that this orthodox tile-menu hive is of fixed 1024KB size (which
likely explains the reputed limit of 500 entries) and fixed date (which
likely indicates the purported secret things going on inside of Win10 that
I can't myself explain but maybe others can explain).

As proof of concept, (as admin or another user) you can COPY the entire
binary orthodox "Database" hive, and then change your Windows 10 orthodox
menus, and then copy back your archived orthodox hive, and you'd get your
old menus back.
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