Windows 11 Start Menu - Group of Apps

Cédric_Dordo 10 Reputation points
2023-08-17T09:29:08.9566667+00:00

Hello,

I asked this question before but maybe the meaning was not clear.

With the new Windows 11 22H2 version, it is now possible to manually create groups of applications in the start menu.

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I would like to script the creation of group of apps, or, export my personnalization with group of apps but when i use the commande export-startlayout -path myjsonfil.json i don't have the group of app. I just find pinned apps, without group.

Is-it possible like under Windows 10 and xml file.

Example with Windows 10 xml file where we can see one group of apps who contains Edge, Cortana and WheaterApps :

<LayoutModificationTemplate Version="1" xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification">
      <DefaultLayoutOverride>
        <StartLayoutCollection>
          <defaultlayout:StartLayout GroupCellWidth="6" xmlns:defaultlayout="https://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout">
            <start:Group Name="Life at a glance" xmlns:start="https://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout">
              <start:Tile Size="2x2" Column="0" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge" />
              <start:Tile Size="2x2" Column="4" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy!CortanaUI" />
              <start:Tile Size="2x2" Column="2" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.BingWeather_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App" />
            </start:Group>        
          </defaultlayout:StartLayout>
        </StartLayoutCollection>
      </DefaultLayoutOverride>
    </LayoutModificationTemplate>

Thanks for you reply

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