Windows 10 Start menu Downloads shortcut is broken

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With a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro, I enabled Downloads shortcut to appear on Start menu. However when I click on it nothing happens. Other shortcuts such as Documents, Music etc all work fine. Is there a way I can fix this problem?
I suspect this issue is happening because I moved Downloads folder to another partition. "Quick access" shortcuts are fine it's just not accessible with Start menu.

I made a small gif/vid of what this is about:

http://i.imgur.com/K2ny7ql.gifv

emrecnl

Posted 2015-12-08T14:29:29.223

Reputation: 394

I suggest you move the Downloads folder back to its original location to see if that fixes the problem. – Ramhound – 2015-12-08T19:17:35.280

Tried before no luck. But I assume original Downloads folder location is C:\Users\$USER\Downloads – emrecnl – 2015-12-08T20:01:27.543

Answers

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The fix would be to open this folder:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu Places

Check if the "Downloads" shortcut exists. If it doesn't, restore it by running the SFC command, as below.

From elevated Command Prompt, type:

sfc /scannow

w32sh

Posted 2015-12-08T14:29:29.223

Reputation: 8 611

There's no Downloads shortcut in that directory although other shortcuts exists. I created a shortcut but it didn't work. Also this is greyed out in start menu customisation settings http://i.imgur.com/3VikwHX.png

– emrecnl – 2016-04-24T12:44:29.417

It's a shortcut (with a hash) and running SFC /Scannow would restore it back, provided the source copy itself isn't corrupted. – w32sh – 2016-04-24T15:58:07.843

Try this command from elevated Command Prompt.

sfc /scanfile="C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu Places\03 - Documents.lnk" – w32sh – 2016-04-24T16:04:09.843

Thanks. Answer is now edited.. so that it will help others. – w32sh – 2016-04-28T06:37:53.143

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