Microsoft is working on a new Windows 11 Start menu design. It’s larger and lets you disable the recommended feed of files and apps.

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Microsoft is redesigning the Windows 11 Start menu, making it larger and more customizable. The updated menu allows users to disable the recommended feed of files and apps, pin more apps, and access all apps on a single scrollable page. This new design is being tested in the 24H2 builds and has been backported to 23H2 versions, suggesting a wider release soon.

Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Start menu is bigger and fixes a major pain point

Looks like a bastard child of Windows 8 and Windows 10. A little bit more useful than the current one (I’ll take tiles/groups over “recommendations” any time) but still needs work.

The whole menue is a pain and most of the real good features are gone in Windows 11.

Can we go back to simpler days of Windows 7 please?

A mess! It looks like a come back of Windows 3.1.
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