On Windows 11, Microsoft is testing a significant upgrade for the Start menu that simplifies the design with a larger, adaptable, and fully scrollable interface that makes it easier to access your ...

The Windows Start menu is getting its first major redesign since 2021 and will be rolled out to everyone with the November 11 Patch Tuesday update. The Start menu is now scrollable, so you can move ...

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 an ...

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 ...

The new, wider Start menu finally lets you disable the recommended feed of files and apps. The new, wider Start menu finally lets you disable the recommended feed of files and apps. is a senior editor ...

Microsoft has started rolling out the new Start menu for Windows 11, which we previously did a deep dive preview on. Both versions 24H2 and the newer 25H2 of Windows 11 can use the new Start menu.

The Start Menu has been the central element in Microsoft Windows for nearly three decades. Though loved initially for its resourcefulness, the Menu went through some debatable — I call them abhorrent ...

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 ...

With Windows 11’s November 2025 Update (update KB5068861), Microsoft fixed some bugs but also introduced some new issues. The biggest news item, however, was the introduction of a completely new and ...

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 ...

First, right-click on the Start icon and select Run. When the Run dialogue box pops up, type shell:appsfolder and select ...