Windows – Backup and restore Windows 10 Start menu tiles replacing vedatamodel.edb: no effects

Apparently the As parametered is only available in Windows 8.1 and 2012 R2. Try without it, just name the file .bin.

Export-StartLayout -Path C:\StartLayout.BIN

WARNING: The script runs without confirmation and feedback. It worked for me (see PS2), but I don't know if it would work for everybody.

From this and this, I made the following script, which did the thing for me:

(New-Object -Com Shell.Application).
    NameSpace('shell:::{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}').
    Items() |
  %{ $_.Verbs() } |
  ?{$_.Name -match 'Un.*pin from Start'} |
  %{$_.DoIt()}

It unpins all programs from start menu.

For non-english Windows, you should probably replace 'Un.*pin from Start' by another sentence.

Run

(New-Object -Com Shell.Application).
    NameSpace('shell:::{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}').
    Items() |
  %{ $_.Verbs() }

To check what's yours. In French : '&Désépingler de la page d''accueil'

PS: previous command may print long list which is hard to look through manually. You could see actions for some known application in the start screen by the command (substitute the name to match, for me it was KeePass):

(New-Object -Com Shell.Application).
     NameSpace('shell:::{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}').
     Items() | ?{$_.Name() -match 'Keep.*'} |
     %{ $_.Verbs() }

PS2: @MarcoLackovic reported that it does not remove all. Recently I had a chance to try it and it indeed did not remove all. What was left were references to Windows Store. Looks like the script only scans through installed applications, so it does not remove other icons. I would suspect it also skips pinned documents, for example.