Microsoft released a major new Windows 10 Insider test build on Wednesday afternoon, offering dramatically different versions of the Start Menu and Taskbar, and even a revamped Alt+Tab experience with ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is introducing a new Windows 10 Start menu design that will de-emphasize ...

The Start Menu and Taskbar are probably two of the most recognizable features of Windows. But with the launch of Windows 11, Microsoft has given major overhauls to each. Prefer the way they used to ...

Windows 11—or a leaked build of Windows 11, anyway—does away with the old Windows 10 Start menu as part of a UI overhaul that simplifies the Start menu. But don’t despair! Here’s how to get Windows 10 ...

They actually took it out in Windows 8, but that change was one of the many many many things people hated about Windows 8, so it came back in Windows 10. That being said, you're not wrong. The Start ...

Something to look forward to: Many long-time Windows 10 users did not receive the Start menu overhaul in Windows 11 too well, in part because it lost many of its staple functions, including taskbar ...

Stardock has released Start11 version 1.0, a program that allows users to customize the Windows Start menu and taskbar, today. As with previous editions of StartX products, Start11 allows users to ...

In the Windows operating system, you can auto-hide the taskbar so the Start button does not show until you hover the mouse over the taskbar area. When the cursor is not in the area of the taskbar, the ...

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After Microsoft brought out the first major update to Windows 11, another minor update arrived this week (October 18) that finally brings two requested features to everyone - tabs in File Explorer and ...

The built-in feature in the Edge browser to pin a webpage to the Windows 11/10 taskbar or Start menu works similarly as seen in Google Chrome. However, there, you create a shortcut to pin the website ...

From time to time, certain key elements in the Windows 10 or 11 user interface can go dormant. You click on or touch the Start menu icon, or other icons in the taskbar, and nothing happens. Keep ...