Windows 10: Customise Start Menu.

I have been mucking around creating a custom Win 10 Pro ISO.
I have the Start Menu almost how I want it!





How can I . . .

[1] How can I get rid of Start, Pinned Tiles, and All Apps.
[2] Reduce the white area so when I click the Start Menu Windows Icon it only shows . . .





I did set it to one column when customising the ISO but this was obviously not enough for it to do what I wanted!

Thanks in advance.

:)

 

Start Menu Customisation


I like having a decent list of most used apps on the start launch list in W7. I would change to [not] 'large icons' in the start customisation options, then set the start menu size to (say) 20 apps.
Shaun posed a great solution to restoring the 9879-type 'resizable' start menu on 9926 (thanks!), but tinkering with the registry entries that controlled the icon sizes in W7 doesn't seem to work in W10TP.
However, there is clearly some mechanism that configures the 'all programs' list to use small icons
Anyone have any suggestions to change the main start list to small(er) icons?

I suppose what i'm wanting is the W7 desktop back - and that's probably not far from the truth; for a desktop user, the W7 Aero presentation was smart, nice to look at, and more productive because it had better delineation between content and functional zones that the Playschool (is this to become the new name for it?) UI doesn't seem to have (for me).

Retain the options to allow the users the options to configure the UI presentation the way they are happiest with, and perhaps then do the analytics to see what everyone chooses?

 

Start Menu Customisation

Download StartIsBack and you will pretty much have the Windows 7 desktop back .... minus the aero effect. StartIsBack is a reincarnation of the Windows 7 start menu.

I just whish they would bring back being able to customize the login screen instead of having to use those fugly solid colors.

 

Customise Win10 Start Menu on Domain

Currently we are in the process of deploying Win10 across our main office and 2 satelite offices. We want to customise the start menu with our standard office packages as tiles as well as allow the users to customise the start menu with their own tiles.

I have seen you can modify the start menu, export and push that with group policy. This is simply done by doing the following steps detailed below. However, this method prevents out users adding their own tiles or laying it out as they want it. The network manager doesn't want to totally lock it down. He wants to allow some flexibillity for users to make it their own. Is there any way this can be acheived?

GP METHOD

• Create a custom layout with the tiles
  
  
  
  
• Go to powershell and use the command
  

• Copy this file to the domain controller or shared a shared file on a server.
  
• In group policy editor, expand user configuration -> go to administrative templates and click start menu and taskbar.
  
• Double Click the start meny layout poilicy.
  
• Enable and point to the location the XML is stored on the server.