Windows 11 offers very limited customization options for the Start menu, such as changing the layout. You can use Windhawk to ...

The Start menu on Windows 11 is far from the most efficient way to launch apps, so why not use an open-source alternative ...

Take back control of your PC’s Start menu and taskbar, whether you’re running Windows 10 or Windows 11. Microsoft has made a lot of changes to the Start menu and taskbar over the past few years. On ...

Microsoft wants you to share content/items more frequently, so it's now adding the "Share" button everywhere, including the Start menu and even the taskbar. Windows 11's Share UI is a built-in feature ...

One of the more annoying things about Windows 11 is that the operating system displays ads in the Start menu for promoted apps and services from the Microsoft Store. The good news is, you can turn ...

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 ...

Every major Windows update since Windows 8 has come with a redesign of the Start menu, and Windows 11 is no exception. This time, though, Microsoft took a radical approach: The taskbar is centered, ...

The Mac doesn't have a start menu like Windows, but that wasn't always entirely true. In the '90s, Macs offered a list of applications in the Apple Menu, like this: Credit: Justin Pot via ...

Microsoft has rolled out a new way to further mismanage the Windows 11 Start menu: displaying ads in the form of recommended apps. The ads are part of the KB5036980 update that rolled out to Windows ...

Google 'Essentials' Adds Quick Access to Its Apps From Windows Start Menu Essentials bundles tools like Google Messages, Photos, and Drive into an app that will come pre-loaded on PCs, starting with ...

As we’ve previously covered, Microsoft is working on another redesign of the Start Menu in Windows 11, and one of the new features is that apps will be divided into different categories automatically.

Microsoft has enabled Start menu ads in the optional KB5036980 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2. The company first announced that it was working on adding ads to the Windows 11 ...