Start10 menu empty

Hello,

Possibly your os has turn off its Recent items logging. Try to enable it back.

Here simple steps to turn it back on. https://www.howtogeek.com/236711/how-to-turn-off-recent-items-and-frequent-places-in-windows-10/

That list should be rebuild as you use you apps again.

Hi Basj,

Thank you for your quick input on this, i checked the settings and both "Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar" and "Show recently added apps" were On by default.

I've gone ahead and turned both off and then back on again, after this the UWP app "Settings" suddenly appeared in the blank area.

But unfortunately, nothing else is appearing when ran via the start menu.

Did you reboot?

Yes i have, i have just done so again for good measure.

No change.

Maybe a corrupt file 

Try Purging Start 10 https://forums.stardock.com/486022/start10-support-faq#reinstalling

after rebooting reinstall Start 10 from your Stardock account to assure you have the latest version

https://forums.stardock.com/484254/getting-your-products-and-keys

Hi AzDude,

Running the purge file was one of the first things i tried, i also ensured that i was installing the latest version (1.56) after that.

I can do so again of course, i'll let you know how that works out.

Edit:

Unfortunately nothing changed.

The 'Settings' UWP app is still there, just nothing is being added.

Start Windows settings.  Go to privacy, do you have let windows track app launches to improve Start and Search results disabled?

Hi Neil,

You saved the day, that was it!

Funnily enough i remember stumbling upon these options and thinking to myself, didn't i disable these when setting up Windows?

Good lesson to read the things you're clicking instead of just blindly assuming.

Thank you.