The Windows 10 Start Menu lets you pin apps so that they are easier to access. You can group them together and manage the size of the tiles as well as the width of the Start Menu. Whether you love tiles or not, you can find ways to customize and work them so it’s easier to access your favorite apps. You can resize your tiles, pin and unpin them on the Start menu or Start screen. After devoting so much time arranging tiles on the Start menu, it would be annoying if something were to happen to it , a registry corruption , a new application installation or a bad update can rearrange or delete the tiles on the Start menu. To avoid such a situation you can Back Up And Restore The Start Menu Layout In Windows 10. This can be also handy if you do not want to have to setup your Start menu layout from scratch again. Say after a clean install of Windows 10.
Backup Start Menu Layout v1.3 – (Monday , July 14, 2019)
[Added] – The ability to name a backup for /C command line switch
Backup and Restore Start Menu Layout in Windows 10
Backup Start menu layout is a very simple portable freeware Application to backup and restore Windows 10 start menu layout. Extract the downloaded ZIP file and run Appropriate .exe file (x64 or x86)
1. To backup Windows 10 start menu layout use the second icon (Diskette Icon) , an input will appear in the Program interface.
2. If you select the backup entry and use the first icon You can restore the saved windows 10 start menu layout. you can also double click on it
How to reset Start Menu Layout in Windows 10
If your Start Menu has gotten overly cluttered, or want to restore the tiles that you’ve unpinned from Start Menu just use Backup Start menu layout v1.1 Reset start menu layout feture. It will reset your start menu layout back to it’s default configuration. To do that Just click the Lifesaver icon or Use File – Reset Star Menu Layout
You can delete any backup with Trash can button. To see all the supported command line parameters , use the File – Command Line Info feature
Supported operating systems: Windows 10 (x64 – x86)
Supported languages: English
File: BackupSML_x64.exe │ Virustotal
MD5: ea1e4a4075a8f690f552f6860b8b39a0
SHA1: 75790f1f973c0d9ab469a22d4db1d6822d8df395
File: BackupSML.exe │ Virustotal
MD5: 4ede5b016943c14445e577261f72938c
SHA1: f47592ddbf04f836481a3c398b975d7fdf95314c
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Does not seem to work if restoring to a different PC
Hi Jeff , Program backups are in the “MenuLayouts” folder next to the program.
Where are the backups stored? We’ll need to know this for command line execution.
Thanks,
Jeff Bowman
Fairbanks, Alaska
Thanks for your tool!
Can I restore Start menu from backup of another computer? It’s really helpful.
Thanks for your help!
Hi Michael Thanks for your feedback , nice to hear that your problem solved
Thank you for this. My start menu wouldn’t load until I used this to reset my tiles back to factory default. So happy to have my start menu back!
Thank you MissyToby
Great!!!! I have all my start menu customized with TileIconifier by Jonno12345 and was worried about losing all the time spent setting it to my liking because I am about to reset my pc to apply 1903 upgrade clean. Tested it by resetting the start menu to its defaults from the lifesaver icon and restoring it right after, I love how easy and fast it is done. Thank you very, very much for this tool!
Unfortunatelly Microsoft changes ideas in each release, therefore it seems normal.
Hi,
Great tools, thank you for this.
But it doesn’t work backing up from 1703 and restore to 1803 (or 1809).
Is this normal ?
Thanks.
Jef
In our test there is no such problem. as a Parameter , the exact location or only the name of the backup folder must be given. For example if the backup folder name is : “20190608_112033” , following command are correct:
C:\BackupSML.exe /R “C:\MenuLayouts\20190608_112033”
C:\BackupSML.exe /R “20190608_112033”
Hi.
Excellent work, excelent tool.
Running the GUI tool both create and restore work super in Windows 10 1903.
But I think the command line tool is not. It creates but doesn’t restore via command line (but can restore via GUI)
would be nice if we could name the backup directly from command line like
“BackupSML_x64.exe /C “
1903 error fixed , please download the new version.
Thanks for the feedback we will try to fix this as soon as possible
Leider funktioniert “backup start menu layout mit win 10 Version 1903 nicht mehr
(Unfortunately “backup start menu layout does not work on win 10 version 1903 anymore)
I can’t find the correct place to click for download. Exactly where do you click for Windows 10 X64?