Windows 11’s new Start menu is rolling out and the community reaction is not great.
To turn off or hide the All Category section in the Start Menu of Windows 11, you can use the Registry, Group Policy Editor or CMD. We show you how to do this.
Windows 25 is a community-created mod for Windows that tweaks the look and feel of the OS. One of my favorite parts of Windows 25 is its clean take on the Windows Start menu. Microsoft is about to ...
The Windows Start Menu has undergone numerous redesigns over the years, with some incarnations having proven more popular than others. The current Start Menu design roots back to Windows 11's launch ...
On November 20, 1985, Windows 1.0 shipped for the first time, marking the beginning of a Windows era that reshaped personal computing. Today, on November 20, 2025, Microsoft is celebrating 40 years of ...
To remove the Recommended and All sections from the Windows 11 Start Menu, first disable Recommended items in Settings under Personalization > Start by turning off all recommendation toggles. To ...
The Windows Start menu is getting its first major redesign since 2021 and will be rolled out to everyone with the November 11 Patch Tuesday update. The Start menu is now scrollable, so you can move ...
Ads in Microsoft Windows' Start menu are nothing new, and it's no surprise that they're coming to Windows 11. Microsoft has been testing ads in beta releases, and this week the update that places ...
With the latest optional update KB5036980 for Windows 11 version 23H2 and 22H2, Microsoft is adding ads for programs and Windows services that users can buy in the Microsoft Store to the Windows 11 ...