New toggles declutter the Start menu with size options hideable profile and tailored recent items for a neater launchpad.

Here's how to shrink the giant Windows 11 Start menu and hide unwanted sections using the August 2026 optional update and ViVeTool commands.

Former Microsoft exec explain how a behavioral psychologist utilized Fitts's law to place the Windows 95 Start button in the ...

You can easily tweak the settings in the Windows 10 Start menu.screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Whether you plan to use the Start menu, the Start screen or both in Windows 10, Microsoft has ...

What if you could open a Web page directly from the Start menu or the Taskbar? That might be a pretty cool feature, right? Microsoft thought so too, which is why they built the feature in…to Microsoft ...

When you booted up your PC recently, you may have been met with an unfamiliar Start menu. There's a good chance that some of your apps have moved and the Start menu itself has a different size and ...

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In the past few years, the Windows Start menu has been dangled in front of us and taken away more times than we can count, but it’s finally back—and it’s brought a lot of new tricks. For the first ...

If you’re a Windows 8 user missing your Start menu, download this free replacement. Third-party replacement of the missing Windows 8 Start menu (I’m sorry, the Modern/Metro UI is not a start menu) has ...

Bob Black asked about altering the Windows 7 Start menu to make it fit his preferences and work habits. You can do a lot with the Windows 7 Start menu. You can put your favorite programs front and ...

When it was first introduced in 1995, the Windows Start menu replaced the clunky Program Manager. The Start menu could contain numerous sub-folders and items could be added to it with a simple ...

The Start menu is back in Windows 10, but it's not exactly your father's start menu. Here's how to get the most out of it. I've been testing PC and mobile software for more than 20 years, focusing on ...