In Windows 8 there was a lot of difficulty with Start menu configurations. These problems are somewhat cleared up in Windows 10 after build 1607. There is now a PowerShell cmdlet to export and import Start menu layouts. Typically, this is done as part of a deployment task sequence using SCCM or MDT to ease the automation of the process. Group Policy and Mobile Device Management (MDM) policies can be used to do some of this as well.
Some thought needs to be put into this ahead of time. Take the existing mechanics into account:
If you apply a taskbar layout to a clean installation of Windows 10:
- The default configuration is merged somewhat with your configuration. Only applications that are in your configuration ...
