Hey all, for the last few months I've been having an odd problem of GOG game shortcuts not appearing in the Windows 10 Start Menu when installing them. I've attached a bunch of screenshots to better explain it, but basically when a game is installed most of the shortcuts appear in the Start Menu as usual, but the game shortcut itself doesn't show up. The first two screenshots show what shortcuts the installer creates, and which ones show up under the game's Start Menu folder (in this case, Fragile Allegiance). When I first had Windows 10, that shortcut would appear in the Start Menu folder labelled Games, but lately the shortcut hasn't been appearing there either (third screenshot, Fragile Allegiance should be under the Final DOOM shortcut). However, right-clicking on one of the games in the Games folder, and choosing More > Open file location brings up the old Games Hub where the shortcut does appear.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? And if so, has anyone found a solution (besides installing something like Classic Shell)?

I don't have a solution for you, but I have had problems like that since first installing Windows 10. At first only one of my machines was doing it, then both started doing it. I basically gave up trying to fix it after a week or two of random research and even tried a clean install on one of the machines. I concluded that the Win10 start menu is a massive piece of shit (in addition to being badly designed and ugly) and just installed Classic Shell.

Maybe the Anniversary update will finally fix it.

Took a quick look at my currently installed games. Seems like the DOSBox shortcuts are not there in the start menu, while the others are. ScummVM games do not seem to have said problem.

P.S. All my games have been installed in the last month, on a brand new Win10 installation. No idea if older installations would have shown the shortcuts, since you do seem to have a few DOSBox games in the Games folder.

:/ Well that's frustrating to hear. I can't remember if I did a clean install, so the older installations may have been while I still had Windows 7 on this computer. I guess I'll wait for the update as well before giving in and moving to Classic Shell.

Does classic shell work with 10? I upgraded to Win10 my old Win8 install asI thought it can't be worse, and it isn't, it is better than 8, however the start in 10 is still horrible even after removing most of it down to basic functionality. I wasn't sure the classic shell worked with 10, at least it removed it when 10 was installed.

What anniversary? Next update is Win10 only virtualised on Azure by the looks of it.

Yes Classic Shell works great in Win10, i've been using it for months. When I'm actually in Windows anyway.

The Anniversary update will be out August 2nd. Supposedly they revamped the start menu again, so maybe they fixed some bugs in the process.

I have to say, a quick glance over that article shows nothing interesting:
Security - considering further up the article they know various statistics (time used)... not to mention the claim for most satisfaction, I mean are they even connected to the web?
Windows Ink - yeah, just what we were missing, can't use notepad...
Cortana - does anyone in their right mind use this?
Edge - M$ browser, says it all - not installed.
Gamers - yay, another GFWL, cos that was such a success.

And no, only new bugs will be present :o)

Oh I don't disagree. Not one new feature for that update is of any interest to me either. I was just hoping it might fix some bugs, but we shall see. My /home Linux partition is running out of space, so Windows 10 might just go bye bye instead.

Grab an SSD, they are quite cheap. I have Win 7 on one, WIn10 on another, and Linux on a third, and a swap drive in the machine. Obviously not the cheapest option, but quite flexible. I would be cautious at dropping Win completely as all games support it currently. Or just delete all that porn hogging your drive :o)

Oh this is an old laptop so it only has space for one drive, largish games like Pillars of Eternity are taking up most of the space. I used to run Linux off an external, but it was just too slow and annoying so I partitioned the 500 GB internal, which runs out pretty fast. And this being so old I don't really want to spend anything on it.

But yeah just going with Linux only is always a risk for gaming. There's always that one game I want to play that I can't get running properly in Wine, so Win10 probably stay even with all my big talk. :P