Microsoft's secret new Start menu replacement is impressive — and might even be a sneak preview of what's on the way with Windows 12. The Windows Start menu isn’t the best search tool when it ...

When you use Windows, the operating system quietly takes note of your habits to help streamline your experience. It ...

In June 2024, Microsoft also began testing a “sidebar” to the Windows 11 Start menu for Android phones, then added iPhone support to the sidebar as well. (Microsoft is also testing allowing ...

The Start menu is the gateway to everything on a Windows PC, from files to apps to settings, and it looks as though Microsoft is planning a substantial refresh for the menu's interface.

In addition, the Start Menu also lets you hide recommendations entirely if you’d like it that way. The idea is to seemingly give Windows 11 users more control over the menu’s usability.

Microsoft is making changes to the Start menu, Settings, Notepad, Paint, Copilot and more in Windows, with Windows Insiders getting the first look.

Windows 10 received KB5060533 with build numbers 19044.5965 and 19045.5965. Supported Windows 11 versions received KB5060842 and KB5060999 with build numbers 26100.4349, 22631.5472, and 22621.5472.

As noted in the Microsoft blog, “We’re also proud to share that Windows 11 24H2 is our most reliable version of Windows yet.

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 ...

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.

Windows Latest explains that the Start menu can stop working completely if Windows 11 detects that your system has an older version of a particular DLL file (MSVCP_140_APP.dll).

Microsoft is tweaking Windows 11 ’s search feature in the Start menu for users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to comply with new EU rules (specifically the Digital Markets Act, or DMA).