Universal Applications Submenu - MS Flight Sim 2020 Entry Missing Text

Anyone else seeing this ?  https://imgur.com/4u3s2fv

Not a big problem (more an annoyance), but I've been trying to figure out why the description for MS Flight Sim 2020 reads as ".lnk" in my Universal Applications submenu of Start10.  The link itself works fine.

I'm using MS Flight Sim 2020 as purchased from the Windows Store.  The game itself does some really weird things using virtual disks and folder redirects so it may be this that's getting Start10 confused.

I can find three related Stardock data directories which seem to be involved in the generation of this "Metro" submenu ...

  1. c:\programdata\stardock\s102 - contains 38 icons for all Universal apps including the correct one for FlightSim ("Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App_2.ico")

  2. C:\Users\<username.\AppData\Roaming\Stardock\S10 - contains 34 subdirectories, one for each univeral app including one for FlightSim (".\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe")
  3. C:\Users\<username.\AppData\Roaming\Stardock\S8 - contains 36 links, one for each universal app but where the title of the MS FlightSim app is simply ".lnk".  I believe it is the content of this directory which is displayed in the Universal Applications submenu.

I can't simply rename the rogue link as every time you click on the "Universal Applications" submenu it seems to regenerate all the icons / links so ".lnk" reappears if you either rename it or delete it.

As I started, not a big problem, more an intriguing annoyance.

PS Should have mentioned I'm using S10 1.96 and W10 20H2 full patched.  It was the same with 1.95.

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