Quite seriously. Try installing one of these small apps (exe files) yourself. Then go find it on your (probably) C: drive and try to add it to the “All Programs” list in “Start” in Win 10 Pro...
As I said, there are way too many exe files (perhaps tens of thousands) to list in “All Programs” on a PC with lots of goodies on it. But, it seems weird there doesn’t appear to be a way to specifically plunk a few there, when they CAN be added as a Start Menu tile or “shortcut to” on the desktop.
I’d rather not have all these I use placed as tiles or Desktop shortcuts - they are easier and more compactly organized in “All Programs”. IMO. ;-)
Although not many people still write their own batch files, I suspect the same problem exists with them, too.
I’m not in the game anymore but lots and lots of those Exe’s are just storage for program resources, and language shit. Dll’s are kind of the same thing.