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The Icon when pinned to the start menu says About Windows instead of Modern Winver. Very minor, I know. Thanks for the App

That's intended

That's intended

It's not.

The apps name for the purposes of the start menu is Modern Winver. The apps window title is About Windows, and somehow Windows 11 decide to use that value instead of the real one when pinned.

I was curious about it myself so I checked with @torchgm who confirmed to me that it's not intentional.

It's not really Windows 11, the display name here is set to "About Windows", hence the name in the start menu.

It's not really Windows 11, the display name here is set to "About Windows", hence the name in the start menu.

Thanks for the extra information - do you know why that name is used specifically for the pinned entry while the other one (Further up in the file) is used for other surfaces?

@Erisa: Thanks for the extra information - do you know why that name is used specifically for the pinned entry while the other one (Further up in the file) is used for other surfaces?

So as far as I could tell, the Windows 11 start menu is using the uap:DefaultTitle.ShortName property instead of DisplayTitle, which in the manifest is set to "About Windows". Weirdly enough this is the only property I could not find in the schema documentation, but here is documentation for DisplayName

This is subjective of course, but I personally like the "About Windows" text, it makes it fit in better :)