- The April 10 update of Windows 10 has spoiled part of the start menu
- Right click on jump lists that were present with some applications no longer work
- These were a very useful shortcut and a key part of the workflow of some users, who are now quite frustrated by their omission.
The last Windows 10 update comes with an unfortunate side effect in which it makes part of the start menu stop working.
The latest Windows reports report that after installing the April update for Windows 10, launched earlier this month, jump lists for some applications in the start menu now seem to be broken.
Normally, when right click on a mosaic (large icon) in the start menu: on the right side of the panel, next to the complete list of applications installed on the PC on the left, the menu that appears provides a standard set of options, as well as what is known informally as a jump list that links several files (keep in mind that this only appears with certain applications).
It is a list of recently open files (or set, commonly used) to which you can get fast access (or jump directly, from there the name). So, for example, with the photos, you will see links to recently open images (or web pages recently seen in a web browser).
However, that section of the jump list no longer appears for the applications that should have this additional furniture bit attached to the right click menu.
Last Windows observes that this is a problem with all its PC with Windows 10, and there are a series of reports that are affected by this error in the Answers.com Help forum of Microsoft and Reddit.
Analysis: What is happening here?
Not everyone is affected here by any means. My Windows 10 PC is fine, and I have applied the seemingly problematic update of April 2025. Or that update seems to be the problematic piece of the puzzle, at least according to the detection of fans.
There are many potential solutions that float here and there, but unfortunately, none of them seems to work. The only cure seems to be eliminated by the update, which is not ideal, since it is only a temporary solution that leaves the last security patches. However, restoring the PC before applying the update seems to do the trick to recover the functionality of the list of jumps, which suggests that this update is in fact the root cause.
Windows Latter increases the possibility that this is an intentional elimination of Microsoft, but I don’t think so. If that is the case, Microsoft clarifies better this, since there are a series of annoying Windows 10 users due to this problem.
I feel that a more likely suggestion is that Microsoft may have supported some Windows 11 changes, and this has somehow caused unexpected collateral damage to Windows 10.
Hopefully we listen to Microsoft soon about what is happening, but in the meantime, the workflows of some Windows 10 users are clearly involved by the elimination of these convenient shortcuts.
Of course, Windows 10 does not have much date in his useful life at this time, only six months, although he can pay to extend the support for another year if he really wants to avoid the update to Windows 11 (or in fact if he cannot update).
