Cannot pin contact to start menu

I am trying to pin a contact to my start menu and for some reason, when I long press it, the pin to start option is greyed out and unavailable. Can anyone help?

Typically if you try to pin something to homescreen and its greyed out its already pinned.
Try scrolling down on homescreen.
If i have helped at all a click on the white star below would be nice thanks.
Now using the Lumia 1520

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The trick is to pin the tiles the way you want them, then export the start screen layout and inject into your image.
It's an awkward system, I know.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2012/10/26/start-screen-customization-with-mdt.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134269
http://keithga.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/windows-8-1-start-screen-behind-the-scenes/
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the blog you got this info from assumed that the file "Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Shell.dll" is in the path you are running the Add-Type command. Trying to acquire
this file can be tedious, since the links are dead, I finally used NuGet in my Visual Studio to get it.
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My version of Acrobat is 10.1.0, installed in early July. I find that Pin to Start menu is not listed as an option on either the Acrobat X Pro entry or the Acrobat Distiller X entry in the Programs menu.
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How to pin a tile for both modern UI IE and standard desktop IE to start menu in Windows 8.1?

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Hi,
I want to know the detail GPO settings for the Internet Explorer, both Windows store and the desktop Internet Explorer, besides, does it work for Windows 7 system?
The Windows store Internet Explorer is an app, it is not located in C:\Program Files, the desktop Internet Explorer is located at C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer.
that’s why it doesn't appear on users start menu when you add the IE shortcut to the GPO setting and tried the following path: c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe
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in order to deploy your solutions from within Visual Studio.
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I've been building a new App-V 5 Environment using server 2012 R2 for the App-V management\Publishing\Reporting servers.
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This is the default behaviour of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 - there are no programmatic ways to pin shortcuts to the Start screen.
Here's a way to customise the Start screen layout: http://stealthpuppy.com/customizing-the-windows-8-1-start-screen-dont-follow-microsofts-guidance/
Here's how to go it with Group Policy: http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2013/06/customising-windows-8-1-start-screen-layout-with-group-policy/
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I understand that Firefox is no longer working on your Windows Tablet. The development of Metro did stop and has been discontinued. However what version were you on before this started to happen?

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