SteveMagruder

Join Date 06/2020

Phantom link in Start11 "Windows 10 style" start menu

I'm seeing a phantom link to "Power Automate" in my Start11 start menu set to the Windows 10 style. The Power Automate app isn't installed on the PC. It appears that this is a phantom within Start11, as when I uninstalled Start11, this phantom didn't appear in the regular Win11 start menu, and after re-installing Start11, it's back. Also, within Start11, I switched to the Windows 7 style menu, and the phantom isn't there, and then switched back to Windows 10 style, and it's there again. However, switching to the Windows 11 style menu didn't remove the phantom.

Is there anything I can do to remove this phantom link in the Start11 start menu? Or alternatively, is there a way to regenerate the start menu, so that it refreshes to a clean state without the phantom?

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By the way, I'm using Start11 version 1.2 on Windows 11 Home 21H2 Build 22000.651.

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AzDude

Join Date 11/2002

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Star11 1.2 or 1.2.1 ?

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AzDude

Join Date 11/2002

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Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having issues.

Ok I see your issue now and can repro it .

Its a MS productivity app .

You can right click on it and a uninstall option comes up

to uninstall I did and it's gone .

I rebooted and it's still gone .

AzDude
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I'm using Start11 v1.2 and uninstalling was one of the first things I tried, and it didn't work.

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I did read that. Thank you. But again, that was one of the first things I tried, and it didn't work.

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Note: This is an app that's not currently installed. When I click the phantom link, I get the error "Windows cannot find '|!Microsoft.PowerAutomateDesktop_8wekyb3d8bbwe!PAD.Console'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again."

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At this point, I'm thinking the only option I have is to uninstall Start11, obliterate its data, and reinstall. There doesn't seem to be a way to export settings, so I guess I'll have to write down what I've set and set it all up manually again.

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This didn't work either. At this point, I honestly don't know whether Windows 11 or Start11 is causing the issue. Even though Windows 11 without Start11 installed doesn't show the phantom link, I found some Windows cache files that referenced this (uninstalled) app. So something somewhere in Windows is supplying this phantom link to Start11 to display.

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OK, I finally just figured out how to remove it.

I installed Power Automate from the Microsoft Store - this installed into the phantom link, which made the link now launch the app. So I then uninstalled the app. Then I rebooted. Now the link is gone altogether.

This surprised me as I had tried to install the desktop version of the app and that didn't help at an earlier point. The key is installing the Microsoft Store version.

Maybe this will assist others running into a problem like this.

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