2020 Edge cannot pin web pages to Start Menu ????

Anonymous
2020-03-20T05:22:18+00:00

Hi, I hope somebody can help. My Windows 10 laptop has installed the new Edge Browser for 2020. It is Edge number 80.361.66, 64 bit. On the old Edge I can go to the more icon (....) at the top right, then More Tools, then Pin To Start. Now on this new Edge there is no Pin To Start. How can I pin a web page to my Start Menu. If I cannot pin a web page to my Start Menu, what's really the use of the Start Menu. I have always had folders on my Start Menu with pages pinned. Now I can't. Can anyone help me? Cheers.

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2020-03-20T08:33:59+00:00

I have figured out a way to pin a site to Start. See the GIF - requires you to pin to the taskbar first. unfortunately, the update to Edge cannot be uninstalled.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-18T10:10:32+00:00

    Same happened to me too , but only twice. As of today, it seems to be working ok again. Anyway, this way of pinning tiles to the Start Menu is sooo weird. Bring back the old way of pinning web pages to Start, This new way is weird, annoying and just so bad. Oh well, I suppose Microsoft will change it when 1 trillion people complain !! .. Cheers ..

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-18T09:57:59+00:00

    First pin the site to the task bar via Edge's three dot menu/More tools/Pin to taskbar then right click on the new icon that it created on the taskbar, right click on the menu item above "Unpin from taskbar" and choose "Pin to start". You can then unpin the icon from the taskbar. 

    Thank you for your help

    Your method was working for awhile.  Now, the tile that is pinned to the Start page is a tile named W~MSEdge._crx__olgimjmhlbjeb.UserData. Default and not the site that had been saved to the task bar.  It creates this same Edge tile no matter what site you are trying to pin.  And, when you click on the tile it does nothing.  Anybody else experiencing this?

    I'm having the same issue.   I tried it with several sites and have the same result.   Any help is appreciated.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-17T22:57:29+00:00

    no longer works after last update...the ONLY option is pin to taskbar...if you try to pin to start it pins the APP not the page..in other words if you pin facebook it pins the facebook app not the webpage...same with e-bay

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-17T17:58:52+00:00

    First pin the site to the task bar via Edge's three dot menu/More tools/Pin to taskbar then right click on the new icon that it created on the taskbar, right click on the menu item above "Unpin from taskbar" and choose "Pin to start". You can then unpin the icon from the taskbar. 

    Thank you for your help

    Your method was working for awhile.  Now, the tile that is pinned to the Start page is a tile named W~MSEdge._crx__olgimjmhlbjeb.UserData. Default and not the site that had been saved to the task bar.  It creates this same Edge tile no matter what site you are trying to pin.  And, when you click on the tile it does nothing.  Anybody else experiencing this?

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