Elanhir

Quick update... Sat here late at night, as usual, just watching some stuff on youtube. Clock turns 1am 19th march, and up pops the start10 licence request again -.- Checked the folder (that holds the license) first, completely empty. Both pin menus (start bar programs 'recent', and explorer quick access) untouched though (currently... hopefully doesn't change after turning off and back on again tomorrow). If it's just the license needing resettin

Greetings guys, Thanks for the follow up suggestions. So far nothing has unpinned since, and the license has stayed put... but then given the current pattern, I'm not expecting it to do anything til the 19th (will report back in a couple days either way). Couple points: I do indeed use AVG tuneup, but have had it (and start10) for many many many years (and rarely change any settings), so if it is deleting stuff now, I have no idea why it would have changed to do s

Hmm.. tbh, I just hadn't looked at windows update in a while (it normally just yells at me when it needs to reboot when updating). Have updated to version 20H2, os build 19042.867 now though. I've deleted the start10 folder (containing the license.sig file and couple other bits) as suggested by the linked articles, and reapplied the license successfully. Oddly, nothing reset (jump menus or quickstart) with me deleting that folder and reapplying license. So seems

Hiya, Thanks for replying! Ok lets see. Windows 10, version 2004, build 19041.804 Start10 version 1.96 and I'll go through this link and see if that works, thanks! :)

Hi, For a couple of weeks now, roughly once a week, I've booted up pc and had a window popup from start10 to 'activate a license' (or purchase one, or trial etc). It's the same box I normally get when I've done a fresh install of windows and just installing everything for first time. After applying my license everything is back to normal, except that any 'recent documents' that I've pinned on the start10 start menu (each program's 'jump menu' I think it's called?), and