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 ...

If you press the key combination Alt-Shift-Esc or right-click an empty area in the taskbar, you can launch the Task Manager ...

Windows adapts the Start menu based on your usage behavior, for example, by showing recently used programs and files. However ...

On Windows 11, Microsoft is now allowing you to try the Start menu redesign. Here are the details and how to enable it manually using the ViveTool.

I find the Windows 25 Start Menu to make better use of space than Microsoft's implementation, which has remained mostly unchanged on PC since the release of Windows 11 in 2021. I appreciate that ...

June 10, 2025 at 8:45 a.m. PT Reviewed by Elyse Betters Picaro Microsoft I've always hated the Windows 11 Start menu. For me, it's badly designed, clumsy to use, and difficult to customize.

Hidden in today’s Dev/Beta CUs: a major update to the Windows 11 Start menu! It has a new, larger layout with everything on one scrollable page, with the “All” list below recommendations ...

A significant update is coming to the Windows 11 Start Menu: Microsoft is now testing a wider, scrollable design, complete with the Windows Phone sidebar. This latest change follows the ...

Over the next month, Microsoft is rolling out a revamp of the Windows 11 Start menu alongside a number of new AI features. It's a wider with an all apps view that is roomier and easier to scroll.

Microsoft is revamping the Windows 11 Start menu and adding a glut of new AI features over the next month, coming first to Windows Insiders running Snapdragon X Copilot Plus PCs like the newly ...

As Microsoft turns 50, we're looking at the Start menu's changes from its debut in Windows 95, passing through 98, ME, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11.

Microsoft added a side panel to the Start menu in the Windows 11 2024 update last year that allowed Android users to get quick access to a phone’s battery status, notifications, messages, calls ...