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The Windows 11 Start menu redesign is a recurring topic on WindowsForum.com, with threads covering Microsoft's testing and rollout of a larger, single-page layout that integrates pinned apps, a Recent area, and the All apps list into one scrollable surface. Discussions highlight section-level controls, optional recommendations, and the inclusion of Phone Link access. The redesign is seen as a strategic correction to address long-standing user criticism about the original Windows 11 Start menu's lack of flexibility and personalization. Threads also cover how to enable the new design using ViVeTool and the staged rollout via Insider preview builds and cumulative updates.
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Windows 11 24H2/25H2 Start Menu Redesign: Scroll, Categories, Better Recommended
Microsoft is rolling out its 2025 Windows 11 Start menu redesign to version 24H2 and 25H2 users as of July 2026, bringing a single scrollable layout, category-based app browsing, and more control over the long-criticized Recommended area. The change is not the grand restoration of Windows 10-era...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Insider Tests New Start Menu Controls: Pinned, Recent & Compact
Microsoft has begun testing a redesigned Windows 11 Start menu in Insider preview builds released in late May 2026, giving users section-level controls for Pinned apps, the renamed Recent area, and the All apps list, while also previewing a broader cleanup of legacy interface elements. The...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 in 2026: Faster, Cheaper Arm PCs and AI-Ready Updates—No Windows 12
Microsoft’s last full week of May 2026 turned into a preview of where the Windows PC is headed: Windows 11 received an optional update with performance and device-sharing changes, Insiders saw a redesigned Start menu move forward, Qualcomm pushed Arm laptops toward the $300 tier, and Microsoft...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Start Menu Prototypes: Why Microsoft Went From Tiles to AI Phone Hub
Microsoft’s decision to redesign the Windows 11 Start menu was never just a visual refresh. It was a statement about what the company thinks a modern PC launcher should be: more adaptive, more personalized, and more deeply tied into the Microsoft ecosystem. The surprise is not that Microsoft...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Start Menu Rework: Scrollable Layout and Optional Recommendations
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 revamp looks less like a cosmetic polish pass and more like a strategic correction. After years of criticism over the Start menu, taskbar behavior, File Explorer friction, and the general sense that Windows 11 favored form over function, the company appears to be...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Start Menu redesign: single scrollable surface with three views
Microsoft’s latest Start menu rethink is no longer a tease: Windows 11 is getting a noticeably larger, single‑surface Start that folds the long-hidden All apps list into one vertically scrollable canvas, gives you new views for browsing apps, and tucks Phone Link access into the launcher —...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Start Menu Goes Large and Single Page in Late 2025 Update
Microsoft has quietly begun replacing the familiar Windows 11 Start menu with a much larger, single-page design that rearranges pinned apps, promotes Microsoft’s recommendations, and folds the complete app list into the main surface — and it’s rolling out now as part of the late‑2025 feature and...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Start Menu redesign: single scrollable surface and ViVeTool enablement
Microsoft has quietly rebuilt the Windows 11 Start menu into something that finally feels useful again — and if you don’t want to wait for Microsoft’s staged rollout, there’s a straightforward (but unsupported) way to turn it on today using the community tool ViVeTool. Background: why this...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Start Menu redesign rolls out in stages with a unified surface
Microsoft is rolling a noticeable redesign of the Windows 11 Start menu to more devices as part of its recent servicing updates, and the change—packaged inside preview and cumulative updates and gated via staged enablement—represents the most consequential Start update since Windows 11’s...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Start Menu Redesign Expands with New Canvas and Phone Link
Microsoft has quietly begun pushing a redesigned Start menu to a much wider audience of Windows 11 users, and the change — while not radical in visuals — is a fundamental rework of how apps, recommendations and phone integration appear in the shell. Microsoft says the refreshed Start is being...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Start Menu Redesign: Single Scrollable Launcher and All Apps Views
Microsoft has begun rolling out a fundamental redesign of the Windows 11 Start menu that replaces the old two‑pane model with a single, vertically scrollable launcher, new “All apps” presentation modes, tighter Phone Link integration, and a series of adjacent taskbar and reliability changes — a...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 2025 Update Cycle: Start Menu Redesign, Copilot in Explorer, and Admin Tips
Windows 11’s recent news cycle reads like a user‑experience stress test: a redesigned, giant Start menu that many users find intrusive; a shadowy servicing update (KB5012432) that’s rolling in for insiders but not everyone; hints that Copilot is moving from the sidebar into File Explorer; small...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Start Menu Redesign: Whats New and How to Enable or Revert
If you booted your PC recently and found a much larger, unfamiliar Start menu waiting for you, that sudden change is not a bug — it’s the new, redesigned Windows 11 Start rolling out to users now, delivered via optional servicing packages and staged feature flags that can make the appearance...- ChatGPT
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