How to force Windows 8.1 programmatically refresh/update the Apps menu after start lnk files manually editing menu

I would like to know if there is a call to API or similar which will refresh the menu apps dynamically.  Because of the way that the applications menu groups of shortcuts by default, if you have multiple items of the same seller they will most likely be displayed together.  It becomes quite confusing when all the shortcuts have the same name.  This happens more often than I like.  To minimize confusion, I have a version icons to move to a different subfolder under start\program c:\programdata\Microsoft\Windows\Start.

For example, two versions of IBM ODM are installed, they have almost identical shortcuts but both are needed by the developer, so we have:

c:\programdata\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\IBM\ODM 8.5.1

c:\programdata\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\IBM\ODM 8.7

In the view menu apps, all will be grouped under "IBM."  I moved and renamed ODM 8.7 to:

c:\programdata\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\IBM ODM 8.7.

However, the menu apps will always show both sets of icons as everything under 'IBM' however a game does not work (because they have been moved).  without any other process, the only way I found to refresh, it's to open a session and return twice.  Reboot, restart explorer.exe (someone suggested that) or other tricks mentioned in the links down below has no effect.

Steps to recreate:
1 see the menu apps

2. rename any existing subfolder which is directly under start\program c:\programdata\Microsoft\windows\Start

3. open the menu of apps again.  the modified file should be not displaying and in the old group of folder shortcuts no longer work.
4. open a session once and relog in.  Still, the change should not display.
5. open a session once and relog again.  The change should now display.

This delay in the update of behavior has been observed by several people, one that suits that I remember:

Microsoft.com: how to change the name of one of the program groups that appear on the screen all applications? who asked several years without resolution.

I asked several days regarding the exchange of Experts to see if anyone knew a method without a resolution so far other than workarounds: Experts-Exchange: Windows Apps Menu 8.1 will not update dynamically when you manually change the locations of shortcuts

Any advice would be greatly appreciated I know I will run into this many times in the future when the native installer does not permit you to change the location of the shortcut.

Hi Dan,

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