Use tools, settings, and tricks to customize the Windows 11 Start menu to your own requirements. We show you how. By Thomas Joos. Contributor, PCWorld Dec 11, 2024 6:00 am PST.

Your Windows 11 Start Menu can be customized to fit your wants and needs. Here’s how to add, move, and remove elements of this important Windows menu.

The Windows 11 transparency effect is a subtle effect that makes some Windows elements, including the Start Menu, translucent. It also adds a slight tint based on your desktop wallpaper.

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 ...

Although the Start menu on Windows 11 has limited functionalities, you can still configure various aspects of the experience through the Settings app, and in this guide, I'll show you how.

The latest change being tested solves one of the most annoying things with Windows 11's Start menu, and hopefully it will ...

I've always hated the Windows 11 Start menu. For me, it's badly designed, clumsy to use, and difficult to customize. If you share my grievances, know that Microsoft has overhauled the old menu in ...

To use the updated Start menu, you need to activate feature ID 49402389 with ViVeTool, a third-party tool. For it to work fully, you must also use additional IDs (49221331, 47205210, and 48433719).

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 ...

As you may recall, with the redesigned Start menu – which is in test builds of Windows 11 now – the long list of apps installed on the PC can be set to a couple of more compact alternative layouts, ...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 Start’s Categories and Grid view. Microsoft Underneath the “recommended” files will be a list of “all” apps, organized into one of two views: Category or Grid view.

If the system files on your Windows 11 are corrupted, it can lead to issues like the Start Menu not working. To repair the corrupted files, Windows offers two tools — Deployment Imaging Service ...