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

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Commentary: The Windows 8 Start screen does offers certain benefits, but the good, old-fashioned Start menu is still the best way to access all your programs and settings.

The Start menu is your way into Windows and the web—it’s where you find your apps and start your searches, where you go to customize the system and organize your digital life.

On the other hand, the Start Menu of Windows 11 comes with a dedicated section called Pinned. As it denotes, you can pin your most-used apps or frequently used apps in this section and open them ...

The native Start menu of Windows 11 and Windows 10 is pretty good to access installed apps and programs, pinning favorite apps to Start for quick access, switching to another account, etc.

You click on or touch the Start menu icon, or other icons in the taskbar, and nothing happens. Keep trying, but nothing keeps happening. This can be anywhere from frustrating to infuriating.

Different Start menu view options. Credit: Microsoft In the Start menu, users will be able to shift the balance between pinned apps and "recommended" items depending on what they want to see more of.

From Start Menu to Start Screen Windows 8 changed the Start menu dramatically, turning it into a tablet-style interface with tiles, which was carried over to Windows 10.

Here's a tour of Vista's Taskbar and Start menu, as well as some tips for altering it in order to take better advantage of Aero's features.

Gkuep1945 used to edit the Start Menu from inside XP’s Windows Explorer, and now asks the Answer Line forum how to do that in Windows 7. If you’re doing major work on the Start Menu–moving ...

In fact, the Start menu is available for free. Classic Shell is a favorite among Windows 8 users who have reverted back to the Windows 7-style Start menu, and is an open-source option that doesn't ...