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Windows 10 Start menu can't handle more than 512 items

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    Kent Sharkey
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    Neowin[^]:

    That's not 512 applications, by the way - that's 512 items in total, including apps, folders, files and shortcuts.

    I'm not sure what's more sad: that this limit exists, or that someone has that many items on their Start menu

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      Neowin[^]:

      That's not 512 applications, by the way - that's 512 items in total, including apps, folders, files and shortcuts.

      I'm not sure what's more sad: that this limit exists, or that someone has that many items on their Start menu

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      Lost User
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      that's 512 more than i need sincerely no wanton fer winten

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        Neowin[^]:

        That's not 512 applications, by the way - that's 512 items in total, including apps, folders, files and shortcuts.

        I'm not sure what's more sad: that this limit exists, or that someone has that many items on their Start menu

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        Evil Iceblock
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        That is pathetic. What's even more disgraceful is that Windows 10 Pro is $300 - $130 more than what I paid for genuine Windows 8.1 Pro and has less features AND has more bugs. I think I'm done with Microsoft and their shit products.

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          That is pathetic. What's even more disgraceful is that Windows 10 Pro is $300 - $130 more than what I paid for genuine Windows 8.1 Pro and has less features AND has more bugs. I think I'm done with Microsoft and their shit products.

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          Lost User
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          Evil Iceblock wrote:

          less features AND has more bugs

          Put your marketing head on.. You mean "simpler with cutting edge enhancements" :laugh:

          How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

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            Evil Iceblock wrote:

            less features AND has more bugs

            Put your marketing head on.. You mean "simpler with cutting edge enhancements" :laugh:

            How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

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            Evil Iceblock
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            Lol, actually, what I meant was "sh--ter than sh-t but better than 8.1." I think that is all it would take to entice most people to upgrade from 8.1 to 10 lol

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              Lol, actually, what I meant was "sh--ter than sh-t but better than 8.1." I think that is all it would take to entice most people to upgrade from 8.1 to 10 lol

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              Lost User
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              Evil Iceblock wrote:

              "sh--ter than sh-t but better than 8.1."

              I think there should be a campaign to rebrand Windows 8/8.1 as Windows BE (Ballmer Edition) :laugh:

              How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

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                Neowin[^]:

                That's not 512 applications, by the way - that's 512 items in total, including apps, folders, files and shortcuts.

                I'm not sure what's more sad: that this limit exists, or that someone has that many items on their Start menu

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                Dan Neely
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                Crapplications that install a dozen or more items make it quite possible to hit the limit. My work PC has ~560 folders and shortcuts on its W7 start menu. Since W10 is folder free I think I'd be clear; but dangerously close to the limit. In particular, the ones written by duhvelopers that are ignoring a decade of MS guidance and putting uninstallers and a half dozen documentation shortcuts on the desktop deserve to be stomped into the mud by a herd of elephants. I'm curious what my home pc's menu looks like; if I remember I'll do a second count there too. Like at work it's an old profile that's accumulated a lot of stuff over the years.

                Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                  Evil Iceblock wrote:

                  "sh--ter than sh-t but better than 8.1."

                  I think there should be a campaign to rebrand Windows 8/8.1 as Windows BE (Ballmer Edition) :laugh:

                  How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

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                  Evil Iceblock
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                  LOL :laugh:

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                    Crapplications that install a dozen or more items make it quite possible to hit the limit. My work PC has ~560 folders and shortcuts on its W7 start menu. Since W10 is folder free I think I'd be clear; but dangerously close to the limit. In particular, the ones written by duhvelopers that are ignoring a decade of MS guidance and putting uninstallers and a half dozen documentation shortcuts on the desktop deserve to be stomped into the mud by a herd of elephants. I'm curious what my home pc's menu looks like; if I remember I'll do a second count there too. Like at work it's an old profile that's accumulated a lot of stuff over the years.

                    Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                    irneb
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                    Dan Neely wrote:

                    My work PC has ~560 folders and shortcuts on its W7 start menu.

                    Agreed ... e.g. I install AutoDesk's Revit (i.e. that one single program) which places around 60 shortcuts in 10 folders in W7's start menu (most of them just silly cr@p like readme files, settings & version migration tools, etc.). But, it's still sad isn't it? Both that this might mean W10's start mean-U reaches its limits with just a handful of proggies installed, as well as that some proggies use up so many items in that mean-U.

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                      Crapplications that install a dozen or more items make it quite possible to hit the limit. My work PC has ~560 folders and shortcuts on its W7 start menu. Since W10 is folder free I think I'd be clear; but dangerously close to the limit. In particular, the ones written by duhvelopers that are ignoring a decade of MS guidance and putting uninstallers and a half dozen documentation shortcuts on the desktop deserve to be stomped into the mud by a herd of elephants. I'm curious what my home pc's menu looks like; if I remember I'll do a second count there too. Like at work it's an old profile that's accumulated a lot of stuff over the years.

                      Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                      Dan Neely wrote:

                      I'm curious what my home pc's menu looks like; if I remember I'll do a second count there too. Like at work it's an old profile that's accumulated a lot of stuff over the years.

                      Forgot 8.1 doesn't have an equivalent list; and restoring a 7 backup image in a VM is way too much work.

                      Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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