windows 11 start

Windows 11’s newest Start menu redesign has rekindled the age‑old argument: when Microsoft reshapes a core part of the desktop, do power users get a meaningful improvement or a productivity regression? For many desktop users the answer has been the latter — a larger, less predictable Start that...

Winhance puts a surprisingly powerful, free, open‑source control panel on top of Windows 10 and 11 that lets you remove preinstalled apps, silence in‑OS ads and suggestions, tune privacy and services, and apply visual and taskbar customizations — all from a single, searchable interface...

Windows 11 still doesn’t give users a built‑edged way to change the visible size of the Start menu, but community tools — most notably the Windhawk modding platform — now offer a practical workaround that lets you resize the Start menu immediately. What began as a small, repeatable community mod...

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...

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...

Microsoft’s long-maligned Start menu has quietly been rebuilt into something significantly more flexible and functional — a single, vertically scrollable launcher that promotes the full “All apps” index to the main surface, adds Category, Grid and List presentation modes, tightens Phone Link...

I have a couple legacy apps that run in Windows 8 compatibility. I used to be able to run them as startup apps in Windows 10 but they will not run as startup apps in Windows 11. They do run in Windows 11 after I have started up. Is there a way around this?

Microsoft has quietly moved the full list of installed apps onto the Start surface, given users direct control over the long‑complained‑about Recommended feed, and introduced three distinct viewing modes — Category, Grid and List — as part of a staged Windows 11 refresh delivered in October 2025...