Reduce the cognitive load of Windows 10
How NOT to do it:
https://betanews.com/2016/06/03/disable-windows-10-live-tiles/
This one seems to get rid of some of the annoyance, but doesn’t fully remove the tiles like I wanted to:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3051121/remove-live-tiles-from-the-windows-10-start-menu.html
And if you want to reload the files, this might reinstall them:
https://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/windows-10/has-your-windows-10-start-menu-stopped-working-here-are-four-ways-to-fix-it-11364000314532
This command was used in Powershell: I probably shouldn’t have used it – it was attempting to install files that were out of date
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}
Image of before (well part way through removing the tiles):
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.outdoortechnologist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Start-Menu-2019-04-09-205126.png?resize=718%2C643&ssl=1)
Final Start menu:
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.outdoortechnologist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Start-menu-no-tiles-2019-04-09-210602.png?resize=322%2C643&ssl=1)
And there are the notes of what I did to get rid of the annoying extra tiles.