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I Use This App to Redesign the Windows 11 Start Menu

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

10 Easy Ways to Improve (or Replace) Windows 11's Start Menu

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, ...
PC World

Make Windows 11 better: How to customize and expand the Start menu

In the upper area, you can define the general layout and control how many icons should appear in the Start menu. In the Start menu settings, you can use sliders to specify what Windows 11 should and ...
Popular Science

How to customize (or replace) the Windows Start menu

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ZDNet

Microsoft is now showing ads in Windows 11's Start menu. Here's how to block them

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 ...
TechSpot

Microsoft opens Start menu to third-party Companions: Here's how to enable the feature

In context: Microsoft recently gave us a taste of Start menu widgets with Phone Link – the Windows-Android syncing utility – scoring some handy real estate. That's far from the only widget you'll be ...
The Verge

Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu

The app recommendations from Windows 10 are coming to Windows 11 soon. The app recommendations from Windows 10 are coming to Windows 11 soon. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...