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Copper Contributor

Oct 05, 2018

Solved

Start menu layout cannot be changed

Having just installed an evaluation copy of Windows Server 2019, I cannot make any changes to the start menu layout. For example; unchecking "Show app list in Start menu" from the Start menu settings...

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Mary Hoffman
Apr 02, 2019
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4490481 - the KB doesn't specifically mention this bug, but the fix is included in this update. You can download from here: Microsoft Catalog

Cooper Beutel

Copper Contributor

Oct 17, 2018

Okay, so I resorted to plan B; install WS2019 core inside a Windows 10 Hyper-V host and use the Windows 10 machine as the GUI for WS2019 through RSAT, etc. however it would seem that Windows Deployment Server doesn't work in the core edition.

Back to square one. As much as I like the new features in WS2019, WS2016 has far less bugs and will be serving as my main server OS until MS sorts out WS2019.

Chris McKenna

Copper Contributor

Oct 30, 2018

Same - domain joined 2019 server. Even tried resetting the permissions/owner on the profile folder.

No luck :\

Cooper Beutel
Copper Contributor
Nov 04, 2018
It would seem that Microsoft won't even acknowledge that this is an issue. Start menu customisation is basic Windows functionality - regardless of it being a server OS, there is a need to change it from the default. I can't use the Feedback Hub app to report this as our domain joined workstations have had this feature disabled. I'm just happy I opted to "try before you buy"