- Windows 10’s April Update has messed up part of the start menu Start
- Right -click on jump lists that were present with some apps don’t work anymore
- These were a very practical shortcut and an important part of the workflow for some users who are now rather frustrated by their omission
Windows 10’s latest update comes with an unfortunate side effect, causing part of the start menu to stop working.
Windows latest reports that jumplings after installing the April update to Windows 10, which was released earlier this month, now appear to have broken.
Usually, right -clicking on a tile (large icon) in the start menu – on the right side of the panel, next to the full list of apps installed on the PC on the left – gives the menu that appear, a default set with settings, as well as what is known informally as a jump list linking to different files (note this only appears with certain apps).
It is a list of newly opened (or attached, commonly used) files that you can get quick access to (or jump directly to, hence the name). So, for example, with the photos app, you will see links to recently opened images (or recently seen web pages in a web browser).
However, this jumping list section no longer appears for the apps that need this extra furniture that is linked to right-click the menu.
Windows latest notes that this is a problem with all their Windows 10 PCs, and there are also a number of reports from those affected by this error on Microsoft’s Answers.com Help Forum and Reddit.
Analysis: What’s going on here?
Not everyone is affected here in any way. My Windows 10 -PC is fine and I have used the seemingly troublesome April 2025 update. Or that upgrade seems to be the problematic piece of the puzzle, at least according to the amateur’s Sleuthing going on.
There are many potential corrections that float around here and there, but unfortunately it seems that none of them work. The only cure seems to remove the update, which is hardly ideal as it is only a temporary solution that leaves you shortly after the latest security fixes. However, it seems that recovery of the PC to before the update was used, that it does the trick by bringing back the jumping list functionality, suggesting that this update is actually the basic reason.
Windows latest raises the prospect that this may be a intentional removal of Microsoft, but I don’t think so. If that’s the case, Microsoft will better prepare this as there are a number of annoyed Windows 10 users out there because of this problem.
I feel that a more likely proposal is that Microsoft may have back -reported some changes from Windows 11, and this has somehow caused unexpected security damage in Windows 10.
Hopefully we will hear from Microsoft soon enough for what is going on, but in the meantime workflows for some Windows 10 users will be clearly messed up with the removal of these practical shortcuts.
Of course, Windows 10 does not have much date back on its shelf life at this time – only six months, even if you will be able to pay to expand the support for another year if you really want to avoid upgrade to Windows 11 (or actually if you can’t upgrade).
