Microsoft is rolling out a new Canary build for Windows 11 Insiders, and it brings some big changes: a brand-new, fully ...

Windows 11 offers a simplified Start Menu layout. However, it might not be the easiest to navigate right out of the box. Luckily, you can easily customize the Start Menu to make accessing the apps and ...

The update feels like a partial return to the full screen Start Menu from Windows 8, and the expanded height menu on Windows 10. The new Start Menu doesn’t take up the entire display, but it uses more ...

Windows Insiders on the Canary Channel can now a redesigned Windows 11 Start Menu with a scrollable list of installed apps.

This guide covers four top Windows 11 Start menu replacement apps: Start11, StartAllBack, Open Shell Menu, and Flow Launcher. These apps offer a range of customization options, from classic layouts to ...

There are two native options to hide or show the Phone Link sidebar on the Start menu in Windows 11. There is a Start menu personalization setting for the Phone Link sidebar to show/hide badges for ...

Microsoft has introduced a scrollable Start menu in the latest Insider Preview Build 26200.5641 (KB5060824), released to the Dev Channel. Now, instead of clicking a button to see unpinned apps, you ...

Windows 11 has become so synonymous with Microsoft's push into generative AI that it's easy to forget that it originally launched as a mostly cosmetic overhaul of Windows 10. But Microsoft continues ...

Microsoft is working on a category view within the Windows 11 Start menu. The view groups apps in a way similar to what's seen on smartphones running iOS or Android. The new feature has not been ...

Editor's take: Starting with Windows 8, Microsoft has repeatedly mangled the tried-and-tested Start Menu paradigm – achieving absolutely nothing useful each time. Now, the AI and cloud corporation is ...

In celebration of Microsoft's 50th anniversary in 2025, it's an appropriate moment to look at the evolution of one of its most iconic features. Of course, I'm referring to the Start menu for Windows.

In the upper area, you can define the general layout and control how many icons should appear in the Start menu. In the Start menu settings, you can use sliders to specify what Windows 11 should and ...