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Cooper Beutel
Copper Contributor
Oct 05, 2018

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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Mark Conroy's avatar
Mark Conroy
Copper Contributor

Hi Cooper,


We are experiencing the exact same issue as well.

 

What we have noticed is that the issue only occurs for us when the Server 2019 box is part of a domain.

 

If we build a fresh new 2019 server (standalone) then the start menu works flawlessly.  The second we promote the server to a Domain Controller (and subsequently log in as domain Administrator) then the start menu issue rears its ugly head!

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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's avatar
    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's avatar
      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.

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