In the last blog post I looked at how-to get your hands on the new Start menu layout in Windows 11 by utilising the Dev build from the Windows Insider Programme and then using the Vivetool to enable the feature.
Now lets take a look at the new view and what it has to offer. The new view option allows you to view your entire app list on the same screen as your pinned apps.
The new menu now includes the category view, which if selected groups your apps automatically, these are:
- Productivity - Edge, Office etc
- Utilities & Tools - apps like phone link, and utilities like snipping tool, calculator
- Games - anything Xbox
- Creativity - camera and any creative apps like Clipchamp, photos and paint
- Information & Reading - RSS readers, weather, news
- Other - anything else it cant categorize!
To get the new view go to the highlighted view menu and choose Category. These groups are categorised by AI, so at present you cannot change the names of the groups.
However this does give you an app view, like iOS somewhat, however if that is not your things you can change the view.
Here you can change the current view either by grid or the more traditional by list as you can see below:
Further customisations are available in the Settings app, giving you further granular control of the Windows 11 Start menu. Goto Settings - Personalisation - Start to begin to customise the view.
These options allow you the user to get more control over the Start menu layout. For me one option I have never used in the default Windows 11 menu is 'Recommended files', which is normally located at the bottom half of the menu. So as you can see I have turned it off and replaced it with the category view.
So as Windows 11 25H2 begins to take shape in the Windows Insider Programme, do you think a more customisable Start menu is a good thing? This new look is still in preview so expect things to change in future builds as things evolve.
Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
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