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Windows 10 How-to unpin folder in Start Menu
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I have a Dell XPS 13 with Windows 10 Home installed. I noticed one day that I had two icons that I could not remove by right button clicking on the icon, and selecting "Unpin from Start" menu item. There was not menu item listed just the "resize" menu item.
After lots of Googleing I accidently stumbled onto the solution. I had read about removing "folders" in the start menu but I did not believe that is what I had. It turns out, that was exactly what I had. The two icons that I could not unpin from the start menu were actually folders.
I clicked on one of the icons and the icon disappeared and low and behold, there was what looked like a collection of icons. In my case, each "folder" had only one icon. Right button clicking on the single icon in the folder produced a menu with "Unpin from start" item. Once the icon in the folder was unpinned, the folder icon also disappeared fixing the issue I was Googling without any luck.
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