Windows 7 menu style loading music library

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Okay, this is a weird one. I've been using Start 10 with release 10049 for about a week, no problem. The 10074 update came out, no problem. Then the Start 10 got updated yesterday and everything seemed fine but all of a sudden the left side populated with my entire Music Library of 1300 songs. The programs I had put there had vanished. After unpinning about 50 songs my program list started to appear at the top but the list of songs was endless so I gave up and uninstalled Start 10 and reinstalled it and rebooted. Didn't work, songs still there. Don't know how those songs got in there or where the appropriate file this list is in so I can edit it.

What should I do?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

It sounds like something has incorrectly dumped the songs in your recent apps list.  This list is maintained by the OS rather than Start10 which is why reinstalling Start10 did not help.

To reset it, right click on the taskbar and pick properties and then on the start menu tab.  In the privacy group untick "Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu", click apply and then retick it and click apply.  Sign out and in and your list should be blank.

If this happens again please let us know what you were doing before hand so we can track down the issue.  With Windows 10 being beta it could well be a bug in the current build of the OS.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Tried everything you suggested but no success. I think it might be a jumplist issue so I'm going to try to find it and clear it.

The program I was using when it happened was JRiver Music Center 20

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Fixed. Had to clear the pinned  programs list of my entire music library.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

They were pinned vs coming from the recently used apps list?

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Yes, they were definitely pinned somehow. I didn't do it and neither did Start 10.

Had to be an Explorer error. Weird eh. I guess that's why they call it a Preview.