Windows 11’s Start menu is arguably the worst Start menu ever produced by Microsoft. I don’t use the Start menu all that often myself and the last thing I want is for it to be cluttered with information I neither need nor want. The top […]
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Remember the hoo-hah when Windows 8 was released? We hope you enjoy reading this Blast From The Past article by Marc Thomas originally published in July 2014 Let’s face it, Windows 8 is a hybrid operating system which, by definition, is something that is
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Start Everywhere is a free & portable Start Menu alternative that can be run either as a replacement for the Windows native Start Menu or as well as. Start Everywhere is highly customizable, both in terms of display and content, and can be set to
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It’s very easy to pin shortcuts to folders to the Start menu in Windows 11 but the feature is limited to a selection of folders as designated by Microsoft. However, the feature does allow for the most often accessed folders to be pinned, including most
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Personalize Your Start Menu Folders Degree of Difficulty = 1 DoD codes are defined in the Original Tips Article. One of the best features added in Windows 11 is the ability to add or remove Folders (icons) from the bottom of the Start Menu. (Ed
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Any regular reader of my articles will be well aware that I am a huge fan of portable software and will choose portable whenever possible. Portable applications do not require installation, meaning they do not create any registry entries and all associated files are self-contained
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There is some personalization of the Windows 10 Start Menu built into Windows 10. If you go to Settings > Personalization > Start, you will see changes you can make. However, we are not going to cover those changes in this article. We will cover
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Computers are very good at doing the same things over and over and over again. And they do it very fast– billions of errors per second! People, on the other hand, quickly get bored when doing repetitive tasks. Among the items in a long list
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I never gave it much thought but there is a difference between the Start Screen and the Start Menu. On Windows 8 we were given a Start Screen. To get to the desktop we had to take another step. Navigating the Start Screen was a
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Contacts We all have human contacts stored on our computers. Some of them, we “talk” to all the time and others, not so much. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to open the Start Menu and have your most favorite people sitting right there,
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Ads and Notifications Microsoft likes to play around with names. Semantics is their game. For example, instead of calling it an “Ad”, they call it a “Suggestion”. What I call “Annoyances”, Microsoft calls, “tips, tricks and suggestions”, or, “Notifications”. Oh, such wit… If you don’t
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The latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build (10565) has seen the introduction of “ads” displaying in the Start Menu. Most reports are suggesting that this feature will almost certainly be included in the cumulative update due to be rolled out to all Windows 10 users
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Windows 10: 3 Weeks and Counting… Much to the chagrin of many people, the traditional Start Menu was dropped from Windows 8 and 8.1 and replaced by a Start Screen. As you would no doubt be aware by now, the Start Menu is back in
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If ever we needed proof that we, computer users, are a fickle lot, we need look no further than the rather strange freeware called “Start Killer”. Ever since the initial Windows 8 release, forums and tech sites have been inundated with complaints about the missing
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