How to place the Windows 11 Start menu again the place it belongs

When you improve from Windows 10 to Windows 11, one of many first issues it’s possible you’ll do is surprise: the place the heck is my Start menu? Traditionally, the Windows Start menu has been within the decrease left nook of the display, however when your new model of Windows seems, you’ll discover the Start icon amongst a gaggle of icons within the middle of your taskbar on the backside of the display.

Click on the Start menu icon, and issues will look very completely different as nicely. Instead of the big sq. Live Tiles that used to pop up, you’ve a way more modest set of app icons, principally exhibiting Microsoft-related apps, pinned to the principle web page. Click on “All apps” on the highest proper nook (just under the search subject) and also you get the acquainted A-to-Z itemizing of apps. But no tiles.

Look under the app icons, and also you’ll discover a “Recommended” part, which presents apps that Microsoft thinks it’s best to attempt (resembling Teams), and in the event you click on on the “More” button, a few of the information or apps you might have used not too long ago.

By the best way, that search subject? Click in that, and the Start menu will open up, providing you with quick entry to File Explorer, settings, and different apps.

While some could recognize this extra puritanical model to the Start menu, others who’ve gotten used to the extra configurable model in Windows 10 could wish to understand how they will return to the extra acquainted, and extra private, model.

You can get a few of the manner there by shifting the centered apps to the left of the taskbar:

• Right-click on the taskbar and click on on “Taskbar settings”
• Select “Taskbar behaviors”
• Look for “Taskbar alignment” and click on on the button on the correct the place it says “Center.” Select “Left” as an alternative.
• Close the settings window, and also you’ll see that the app icons within the taskbar have moved to the left, with the Start menu icon within the nook.

While this can place the Start menu again the place you anticipated it, it won’t restore the one you have been used to. To get that again, you’re going to need to go to a third-party app.

As this was being written, there was already at the very least one obtainable. Stardock, an organization whose Start10 app permits Windows 10 customers to maintain their beloved Windows 7 menu UI, has already made obtainable a beta of its Start11 app, which it says will convey again the basic Windows 10 Start menu. The apps prices $5.

So far, Start11 is the one app we’ve discovered that purports to revive the Windows 10 menu system. It is certain to not be the final, although — there have been a number of apps on the market that catered to Windows 7 followers when Windows 10 got here out, and you may wager that there’ll quickly be different options for the Windows 10 “look” as nicely. (There are some regedit hacks floating round on the market, however most are both very elaborate or were made useless somewhere along Microsoft’s beta cycle.)

If a greater resolution presents itself, we’ll make sure you let you already know.