Cleaning "all Apps" Data

[stevie m]

My All Apps in the start menu is becoming clogged and acts like a history folder, with the same applications making separate insertions for every action. Example' if I download 3 separate items from the net the download folder in Apps shows 3 times. If I go on Mozilla every page I view is recorded in the Apps. Every action in photoshop is recorded there. This has only started recently, any suggestions how to rectify please as th menu in extremely long now.

[pinkyboyid]

You could initially try running a Disk file verification process to detect any file indexing errors and automatically attempt repairs.

Assuming you are using Microsoft Windows 10?,

- Right-Click the 'Windows start' icon and select 'Command Prompt (Admin)'
- Click the response 'Yes' and A 'Command Prompt' window will open up
- In the 'Command Prompt' window enter/type the following text using the keyboard:-

"CHKDSK C: /F" (make sure the 'Spaces' are included as shown)

and then press the 'Enter' key
- Type 'Y' and press the 'Enter' key in response to the "Y/N" prompt.
- Now restart your computer and a CHKDSK Disk check process will commence automatically before window starts up.

The CHKDSK process will take a while to complete, so just let it run undisturbed. On completion Windows will startup as normal where you can check to see if the initial problem has been corrected.

Hope that sorts it for you.

[stevie m]

Thanks Pinky will give it a go

[stevie m]

No luck with that i'm afraid

[pinkyboyid]

Try restoring your windows system to an earlier point in time before the problem started.

Info on how to do that is available at (assuming you are using windows 10): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-10/windows-10-recovery-options

Expand / see the section "Restoring from a system restore point"

[ivor4781]

download "cc cleaner" free that will do it

[stevie m]

Hi Ivor, run CC cleaner didn't touch it. hasn't altered anything unfortunately

[stevie m]

Also restored computer to a month ago before this happened, still the same problem, bit of a mystery here I think.

[pinkyboyid]

As a test, try creating another local Windows user account and then login using the new account and check if the problem is no longer present. If not, then the problem is most likely associated with your current user profile.

To create a new local user account see:-

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-10/create-a-local-user-account-in-windows-10