How to add new item to the Windows 10 "All Apps" section

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I want to add a new item (in this particular case a shortcut to Putty SSH client) to my Windows 10's All Apps section.

I have already found out that I can "Pin to Start" any item, however, this will only create a new tile on the right side of the Start Menu and won't add any new item to All Apps. Thus, pressing Win and typing "putty" won't return any result.

Creating a new shortcut and adding it to shell:start menu has the same effect as pinning to Start, so it's not a solution.

Note: this question might look the same, but the accepted answer doesn't apply to my requirements as I need the item to be searchable, and not only a new tile.

Note 2: I can confirm that after waiting several hours for Windows to reindex its index I manually rebuilt the whole index, but putty still can't be found neither in search results nor in "All Apps" list.

belidzs

Posted 2015-08-03T12:31:47.740

Reputation: 63

Question was closed 2015-12-21T04:25:04.800

Answer to that question seems to be correct. The item will be a regular Start item, just like any other, and thus will be searchable. You may have to wait a few minutes for Windows to index it. – gronostaj – 2015-08-03T12:38:47.993

1I have added this shortcut hours ago. Since then I had a restart, but still no cigar. Indexing option says "Indexing complete" – belidzs – 2015-08-03T12:59:13.113

I had this problem too and eventually discovered that "Pin to Start" breaks Search for that item, even after un-pinning it, adding a shortcut manually and re-building the index. The fix is to unpin the shortcut, rename the app directory, create a shortcut manually and then revert the name change. Writeup here. Then it shows in All Apps and can be searched for.

– mgiuffrida – 2017-01-28T22:36:17.527

Answers

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It is automatically added when you install new applications. To add manually put folders here

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

You can also try this location:

C:\Users\ YOUR_ID\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\

Aoyon Nasif

Posted 2015-08-03T12:31:47.740

Reputation: 84

Thanks! Creating a new folder inside Programs finally did the trick. – belidzs – 2015-08-04T17:06:31.750

9This does not work for me – David Faivre – 2015-10-05T14:41:03.243

Neither does it for me... – Ruben – 2016-01-11T19:29:57.590

After adding a shortcut to this path, nothing came up in the search. But after clicking the All apps button, and seeing it was there under Recently added in the top - and also under its respective letter - it seemed to index it, because it then turned up in searches. – Aske B. – 2016-09-15T20:04:26.987

First one did the job for me. Thanks a lot. – Suraj Jain – 2017-09-30T05:53:40.177

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