Windows 8.1Metro not showing newly installed programs

Twirlywoos · 20 Aug 2014 at 21:20

Hi

Just finished building my neices rig. When installing her Astronomy and school related programs the Metro interface doesn't create a shortcut. I can manually create them but does anyone know why it is not automatically doing it like on my home machine also running Windows 8.1?

Bad_HatHarry · 21 Aug 2014 at 22:34

Is it to do with the pro and basic editions majnu

james.miller · 21 Aug 2014 at 22:44

Its because we complained that 8.0 was filling the start screen with every piece crap that gets installed, so instead of try to fix the problem creatively(ie, only add the apps and not all guff that comes with them), Microsoft just just stopped stuff being added entirely. Don't know if you can change that behaviour in 8.1, though I guess you can if you say its adding apps for you.

shankly1985 · 21 Aug 2014 at 23:05

Am sure there is a setting for enabling it.

Totality · 22 Aug 2014 at 04:35

james.miller said:
Its because we complained that 8.0 was filling the start screen with every piece crap that gets installed, so instead of try to fix the problem creatively(ie, only add the apps and not all guff that comes with them), Microsoft just just stopped stuff being added entirely. Don't know if you can change that behaviour in 8.1, though I guess you can if you say its adding apps for you.

Or people like you don't just click the down arrow in the start menu, right click on the shortcut that has been created there and select pin to start menu when a new application is installed?

It's all I do on my copy of 8.1... They don't appear in the main start menu automatically but appear in the all programs area.

james.miller · 22 Aug 2014 at 06:39

People like me?

I'm totally aware of the all apps view. The op was asking about new app shortcuts being auto-added to the start screen, not how to find his apps.

People like me know exactly how to find them.

Twirlywoos · 23 Aug 2014 at 02:34

a bit of a faff and not a simple as a click to re-enable but the work around is here as MS removed it in an update. Cheeky buggers.

http://metadataconsulting.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/pragmatically-pinning-apps-to-start.html