Windows 10: Why hasn't the Windows 11 Start Menu improved at all?

It has been a disaster from day one, and it has been years now. You can barely customize it, and it's filled with stuff that Microsoft wants to be there, and which users are unable to remove or change. It was stated in the early days that many improvements would come, and none have. Enumerating the lack of customization is an essay: why is it still horrible?

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Windows 11 Start menu

Yes, live tiles are gone, in Windows 11, as is the capability of resizing the start menu, or for that matter, to relocate the task bar. I haven't a clue why Microsoft changed some of these things, or why they thought it was an improvement. Possibly, though, some of these features will be re-introduced in future feature updates.

List of Features to be Deprecated or Removed in Windows 11

The Start menu will be rejuvenated in Windows 11 and there will be few old features that will be removed. You will see the following functions to be gone from the Start menu in Windows 11:

1. Live Tiles will no longer be available. There won’t be dynamic previews in the Start menu.
   
2. Pinned apps or sites won’t be mitigated when you upgrade from Windows 10.
   
3. Named groups and folders of apps are not supported. And also, the size of the layout can’t be adjusted currently.
   

I think that word "mitigated" should have been "migrated." In fact, the start menu comes full of apps you probably don't care about, and instead has none of the pinned icons you do care about. But it's easy enough to remove some of the unneeded icons, and re-pin your needed ones.

Also note that to see the complete list of apps, you have to click that small nondescript button, on the upper right of the start menu. Another thoroughly questionable change, in Windows 11.

My own preference is to only introduce changes which improve the product. Make it more intuitive, easier, faster at accomplishing the usual tasks. Instead, in Windows 11 and also in Office updated versions, we often see "change for the sake of change," not "change to something improved."

 

Windows 11 start menu 'suggested list' does not show files.

After deleting a file from the Windows 11 Start Menu "Suggested List", it does not appear in the "Suggested List" even if the file is used again.

Is there any solution other than initialization? I want you to tell me.

 

Start menu in windows 11

Hi Gear,

I am Sumit here to assist you with this question.

Unfortunately, not. The newly redesigned start menu does not allow resizing yet. I think they are tracking feedback for this.

List of Changed or removed features/functionalities in Windows 11

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

If you like Windows 10 styled start menu, these tools may help:

Improve Windows 11 Taskbar functionality using these tools

https://www.yourwindowsguide.com/2021/09/restor...

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