The most common stuff I have pinned to the taskbar, but the Start menu has easily 80+ apps available at a glance.
So, opening an app is just Windows key + click, even faster than typing in the search bar.
It's laid out in a way that makes sense to me and I know where everything is. Since Windows 8, I've adopted an approach of pinning basically everything that I could need to the start menu. Not because of Live Tiles, that was a nifty feature but I never saw it used in a way that was "useful" other than maybe the weather app tile. I for one will miss the Windows 10 Start menu. You can launch it by hitting Windows + R and typing "regedit." Click Yes if prompted. The Search box does absolutely nothing when you click on it and the Taskview, in my experience, almost always crashes, causing icons even of open apps to disappear temporarily, so in other words, don't click it, or better yet, hide it, which we'll show you how to do.ġ. This taskbar looks and feels a little bit more like the Windows 10 taskbar and has a Search box and a Task View button. However, in order to get Open-Shell to use a Windows 10 Start button icon, you need to enable the classic taskbar in the Registry. If you've installed Start11 or StartAllBack, the programs will automatically enhance your taskbar with some options so we recommend that you skip this section. If you’re not a fan of this, you can roll back many of Windows 11’s taskbar changes with the StartAllBack program.Another possibility is to uncheck Replace Start Button in Open-Shell's options menu and use the classic taskbar hack (see below) and then you'll get a clickable, Windows 10-style Start button. Switching the volume output source, for instance, is now a multi-step process instead of just being a click away. In doing so, though, Microsoft abandoned a bunch of handy functionality. Windows 11 deploys a visually updated taskbar too. Restore the Windows 10 taskbar on Windows 11 Open Shell doesn’t offer the same set of tools as Start11 and only comes equipped with the classic Windows 7 Start menu theme. Start11 costs $6, and you can download it from here (opens in new tab).Īlternatively, if you don’t want to pay, you can try Open Shell. You have the option to edit the taskbar’s background transparency, reposition it to the top, and more. Plus, Start11 allows you to apply a custom theme on the taskbar. So once you have chosen, for instance, the Windows 10 scheme, you can adjust its transparency, size, icon spacing, and accent colors. What’s more, you can customize Start11’s themes down to the pixel.
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