They can't be freely placed, either, they are arranged in rows sort of like iOS. On Windows 11, I think you can only pin 18 items before having to scroll through them. The most common stuff I have pinned to the taskbar, but the Start menu has easily 80+ apps available at a glance. So, opening an app is just Windows key + click, even faster than typing in the search bar. It's laid out in a way that makes sense to me and I know where everything is. Since Windows 8, I've adopted an approach of pinning basically everything that I could need to the start menu. Not because of Live Tiles, that was a nifty feature but I never saw it used in a way that was "useful" other than maybe the weather app tile. The closest thing that I've found to replicate the Windows 10 Start menu (as a one-click app launcher) is WinLaunch, but that one doesn't have as much layout flexibility as the Win8.1/10 Start menu did.Īaron44126 said:I for one will miss the Windows 10 Start menu. Just throwing icons on the desktop is not really my thing, because then I have to deal with minimizing all open windows to access it. I for one will miss the Windows 10 Start menu. You can launch it by hitting Windows + R and typing "regedit." Click Yes if prompted. The Search box does absolutely nothing when you click on it and the Taskview, in my experience, almost always crashes, causing icons even of open apps to disappear temporarily, so in other words, don't click it, or better yet, hide it, which we'll show you how to do.ġ. This taskbar looks and feels a little bit more like the Windows 10 taskbar and has a Search box and a Task View button. However, in order to get Open-Shell to use a Windows 10 Start button icon, you need to enable the classic taskbar in the Registry. If you've installed Start11 or StartAllBack, the programs will automatically enhance your taskbar with some options so we recommend that you skip this section. Here’s a link to their download page on possibility is to uncheck Replace Start Button in Open-Shell's options menu and use the classic taskbar hack (see below) and then you'll get a clickable, Windows 10-style Start button. PLEASE NOTE that we discovered in December 2016 that, as of version 4.x of Start Menu 8, the program is no longer free. Fortunately for Windows 10 users, Start Menu 8 also works with Windows 10! For Windows 8 users, there was Start Menu 8, a free app that gives you back a very Windows 7-like start button and start menu. Also true you can customize the start menu somewhat, but in our opinion, it’s still not up to par. True you can search for control panel items, but of course you have to know the right phrase to search with. It seems like they’ve also tried to hide even more system settings, including Control Panel, from the average user. However they’ve tried to cram a bunch of the metro screen “tiles” onto this start menu. Windows 10 has a start button and start menu. Windows 8.1 had a start button that just kicked you back over to the new metro start screen (unless you knew to right click it) so, still pretty worthless. In the beginning, Windows 8 had absolutely no start button or start menu.
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