How to fix this UI glitch on Start menu?

TheMystic · Feb 23, 2022

Microsoft To Do app, and sometimes other apps too, show the faded out app icon with a progress bar underneath on the Start Menu in Windows 10.

The apps are fully updated. Launching the apps, restarting the laptop, etc haven't helped so far.

Any ideas?

CornishRattler · Feb 23, 2022

Is that not the app updating from the store? Weird if all are up to date

Bree · Feb 23, 2022

TheMystic said:
The apps are fully updated. Launching the apps, restarting the laptop, etc haven't helped so far.

Any ideas?

For a start, we'd need to know how you are still getting the classic Start menu (the one with the tiles) in Windows 11 21H2 Build 22000.282. Apparently Brink's tutorial stopped working long ago. How you are doing so may well be relevant.

Restore Classic Start Menu in Windows 11 Tutorial

The method in this tutorial no longer works starting with Windows 11 build 22000.65. The Start menu contains shortcuts of all your apps, settings, and files. Windows 11 comes with a new Start menu without live tiles. If you do not like the new Start menu in Windows 11, you can restore the...

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In the mean time, one thing I found that often fixed broken tiles in Windows 10 was to resize the tile, then resize it back to the size I wanted.

CornishRattler · Feb 23, 2022

Bree said:
For a start, we'd need to know how you are still getting the classic Start menu (the one with the tiles) in Windows 11 21H2 Build 22000.282. Apparently Brink's tutorial stopped working long ago. How you are doing so may well be relevant.

Start 11 (Stardock) I think replicates that but I think only looks like not acts like

TheMystic · Feb 23, 2022

CornishRattler said:
Is that not the app updating from the store? Weird if all are up to date

The apps are all up-to-date as mentioned in OP. I have rechecked that multiple times.

TheMystic · Feb 23, 2022

Bree said:
For a start, we'd need to know how you are still getting the classic Start menu (the one with the tiles) in Windows 11 21H2 Build 22000.282. Apparently Brink's tutorial stopped working long ago. How you are doing so may well be relevant.

Restore Classic Start Menu in Windows 11 Tutorial

The method in this tutorial no longer works starting with Windows 11 build 22000.65. The Start menu contains shortcuts of all your apps, settings, and files. Windows 11 comes with a new Start menu without live tiles. If you do not like the new Start menu in Windows 11, you can restore the...

www.elevenforum.com

In the mean time, one thing I found that often fixed broken tiles in Windows 10 was to resize the tile, then resize it back to the size I wanted.

Sorry, my mistake. This is Windows 10. I have updated it in the OP.

I have tried unpinning the tile and pinning it back, but that hasn't helped.

The problem has resolved by itself for now. But this has been happening for quite a while.

I will give the resize a try next time it happens.

Bree · Feb 23, 2022

TheMystic said:
Sorry, my mistake. This is Windows 10. I have updated it in the OP ... The problem has resolved by itself for now. But this has been happening for quite a while.

Well, rather than suggest you start over with a post on Ten Forums

here's a suggestion:

The greyed tile with a progress bar underneath means it's an app that's being updated. I suspect you have the Store set to update apps automatically (the default). If you turn that off then it should stop it happening at random times (ie: whenever the Store feels like it). You can then choose if/when to update your apps with the Store's Library icon. Click your user icon to get to the Store settings.

TheMystic · Feb 23, 2022

Bree said:
Well, rather than suggest you start over with a post on Ten Forums

Registrations closed. :cry:

Bree said:
here's a suggestion:

The greyed icon with a progress bar underneath means it's an app that's being updated. I suspect you have the Store set to update apps automatically. If you turn that off then it should stop it happening at random times (whenever the Store feels like it). You can then choose if/when to update your apps. Click your user icon to get to the Store settings.

It is a UI glitch. The progress bar should complete and disappear once the app is updated. But that isn't happening. The Start Menu continues to show the faded icon with the progress bar somewhere, even though the update has been downloaded and installed.

Since this has been happening for atleast a few months now, and I have noticed this several times, I think it is a glitch. This installation of Windows is very clean with only a handful of most essential apps installed. So I think I can rule out a problem caused by 3rd party apps.

Bree · Feb 23, 2022

TheMystic said:
Bree said:

Well, rather than suggest you start over with a post on Ten Forums

Click to expand...

Registrations closed.

I've just opened the Ten Forums registration page and it looks open to me.

Try again, and if that doesn't work mention z3r010 and John should be able to help.

TheMystic · Feb 23, 2022

Bree said:
I've just opened the Ten Forums registration page and it looks open to me.

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Try again, and if that doesn't work mention z3r010 and John should be able to help.

Thanks for letting me know that.

At the time of joining this forum, I tried tenforums first, and it was closed for new registrations. It redirected me to www.windowsq.com where I successfully registered. Now that site too has been closed down (or locked).

Bree · Feb 23, 2022

TheMystic said:
At the time of joining this forum, I tried tenforums first, and it was closed for new registrations. It redirected me to www.windowsq.com where I successfully registered. Now that site too has been closed down (or locked).

WindowsQ has indeed closed. It was meant to be an 'all Windows' site, but never really took off. The unexpected launch by MS of Windows 11 was the final nail in its coffin, forcing John to create Eleven Forum. Ten Forums may have closed for registration to encourage more to join WindowsQ, but it's certainly open again now.

TheMystic · Feb 23, 2022

Bree said:
WindowsQ has indeed closed. It was meant to be an 'all Windows' site, but never really took off. The unexpected launch by MS of Windows 11 was the final nail in its coffin, forcing John to create Eleven Forum. Ten Forums may have closed for registration to encourage more to join WindowsQ, but it's certainly open again now.

May be it is the name that didn't stick with people. But I would definitely prefer one site for all things Windows.

On another thread, I asked why we are having a site for each version of Windows, instead of one site for all things related to Windows. I didn't receive an answer for that, but was told that another site with that approach is a failure. I have no idea about that site. And I don't know why that site failed, or why people prefer a site for each version of Windows.

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