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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

Chrigel

Copper Contributor

Jan 08, 2019

I experienced the same, but the problem began not when I joined the machine to the domain but when I activated the License (no KMS installed in this environment). At this point, the system allows to change the design-settings (by design) and puts the start menu to default (by bug)

Anybody a clue?

Tobias Hüpgen

Copper Contributor

Jan 08, 2019

Hi Chrigel,

I experienced the same issues.

Furthermore I'm not able to license any Windows Server 2019 via VLSC license keys (MAK activation).

Windows Server 2019 Evaluation media isn't available in the evaluation center. Seems like this will become a real nice server OS...

Greets

Tobi

MGT_RDFFG
Copper Contributor
Jan 10, 2019
Ran into the same problem for activating MAK keys in 2019. You have to use command prompt to install the MAK keys right now.

uninstall current product key - slmgr /upk
install new product key - slmgr /ipk <Product Key>
activate new key - slmgr /ato

I also found that putting the MAK product key in an unattend.xml file for sysprep does take and and activate.