• Add Excel to Win10 Start menu most used list?

    Posted on July 27, 2016 at 14:25 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Another right-on question from RM:

    What a great article your wrote for info world on the modifying the start menu.
     
    I just upgraded about a dozen window 7 machines to windows 10 in our medical offices and have a question that I cannot seem to find an answer to:
     
    Some of our machines do not list excel and its jump list under “most used”, even if we use it a ton.  I have tried to clear the automatic destinations files as other have recommended but that does not work.  I thought there must be some way to add it to the top of the left side since our staff does not run with any tiles open.  According to what I have read on multiple web site, originally one could left drag and drop from a tile to the left side, but apparently this feature has been discontinued by MS.
     
    Any ideas how to either put excel and the jump list back into the “most used” list or alternatively, add a shortcut to the top of the left side the start menu.  Our staff gets confused with the shortcut in the taskbar, but this seems the only workaround
     
    Thanks for the great article and appreciate any help you could give me.

    Short answer: You can’t. There’s no way to directly change anything at the top of the left side of the Start menu, in Win10 RTM, Win10 Fall Update, or in Win10 Anniversary Update.

    The only way I know to get something onto the Most Used is to delete what’s on the list – right-click and “Don’t show in this list” — enough times to bring up the program you want.

    I found a way to move items up the “MFU” (“most frequently used”) list in earlier versions of Windows – you could manually manipulate a registry entry to rig the system. I haven’t been able to replicate that kludge in Win10.

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