Start-menu app categories
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 72/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- operating-systems, tooling
Research direction
Start with Start-CategoryTweaker.ps1 and compare its existing categories with the additional categories listed in the linked article. Update the script to support the relevant categories, then run it on Windows and verify that Start-menu apps are assigned to the new categories correctly.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
I found more Start menu app categories:
https://xmha97.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/changing-start-menu-app-categories/
You can use the categories in your script: Start-CategoryTweaker.ps1
- Dominant language
- PowerShell
- Stars
- 38
- Forks
- 2
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Getting set up
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