{"id":3692,"date":"2015-11-12T15:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2019-07-07T18:31:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T18:31:46","slug":"how-to-count-the-number-of-shortcuts-and-tiles-in-the-start-menu-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/how-to-count-the-number-of-shortcuts-and-tiles-in-the-start-menu-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to count the number of shortcuts and tiles in the Start menu in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/the-limit-of-512-shortcuts-in-the-start-menu-is-gone-in-the-latest-windows-10-update\/\">this blog post<\/a>, the <strong>Start<\/strong> menu in <strong>Windows 10<\/strong> has a limit of number of shortcuts and tiles that can be added to the menu. In the first release of Windows 10 the limit was 512 items. But in the latest update of Windows 10 (the \u201cThreshold 2\u2033 update) the limit has been increased to 2048 items.<\/p>\n<p>If you use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/visual-installer\/visual-installer.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visual Installer<\/a> to install files and encounter problems with shortcuts that are not visible in the Start menu, a good first step is to count the number of shortcuts and tiles in the Start menu. This can be done by using <strong>Windows PowerShell<\/strong> and running the <strong>Get-StartApps | measure<\/strong> command there:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/windows-powershell\/windows-powershell-get-startapps-measure-w640.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Get-StartApps | measure\"><\/p>\n<p>Windows Powershell will then display the number of items in the Start menu in the PowerShell window. For example:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/windows-powershell\/windows-powershell-get-startapps-measure--count-w640.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Count\"><\/p>\n<p>If the build number of your <strong>Windows 10<\/strong> is less than <strong>10547<\/strong> and the count is above <strong>512<\/strong> you have added \/ installed too many shortcuts and tiles to the Start menu. If you have a build number that is <strong>10547<\/strong> or above and the count is above <strong>2048<\/strong>, you have added \/ installed too many shortcuts and tiles to the Start menu. In the latter case you need to remove some items before you can add new. In the first case you need to update your Windows 10 to the latest version of the operating system.<\/p>\n<p><em>(To open Windows PowerShell you can enter \u201cpowershell\u201d in Windows search box and press Enter; then Windows PowerShell is started. To see the build number  you can enter &#8220;winver&#8221; in the same search box and choose the winver command in the list that is shown.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in this blog post, the Start menu in Windows 10 has a limit of number of shortcuts and tiles that can be added to the menu. In the first release of Windows 10 the limit was 512 items. But in the latest update of Windows 10 (the \u201cThreshold 2\u2033 update) the limit has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/how-to-count-the-number-of-shortcuts-and-tiles-in-the-start-menu-in-windows-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to count the number of shortcuts and tiles in the Start menu in Windows 10&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}