The Start menu contains shortcuts of all your apps, settings, and files.
Starting with Windows 10 build 18317, Microsoft separated the Start menu into its own process, called StartMenuExperienceHost.exe. This has a number of benefits, including simplifying debugging and insulating Start from potential issues impacting other surfaces.
This will allow you restart the Start menu without having to restart the explorer.exe process.
Restarting the StartMenuExperienceHost.exe process can be helpful if the Start menu will not open, frozen, or acting buggy.
This tutorial will show you how to add Restart Start Menu to the desktop context menu of all users in Windows 10.
The Start menu contains shortcuts of all your apps, settings, and files.
Starting with Windows 10 build 18317, Microsoft separated the Start menu into its own process, called StartMenuExperienceHost.exe. This has a number of benefits, including simplifying debugging and insulating Start from potential issues impacting other surfaces.
This will allow you restart the Start menu without having to restart the explorer.exe process.
Restarting the StartMenuExperienceHost.exe process can be helpful if the Start menu will not open, frozen, or acting buggy.
This tutorial will show you how to restart the StartMenuExperienceHost.exe process to restart the Start menu as needed for your account in Windows 10.
The Start menu allows you to quickly open apps, settings, and files from either All Apps or pinned apps on the Start screen.
This tutorial will show you how to keep the Start menu open when opening multiple apps from the Start menu in Windows 10.
The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on what’s important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.
An added account in Mail has folders such as the Outbox, Inbox, Drafts, Archive, Conversation History, Junk, Sent, and Deleted for your email messages. You can add or remove folders from Favorites under the email account(s) how you want.
If you like, you can pin to Start a folder for email account(s) from the Mail app to be able to quickly open the Mail app directly to a folder of the email account you want from Start.
This tutorial will show you how to Pin to Start a folder of an email account from the Mail app for your account in Windows 10.
The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on what’s important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.
If you like, you can pin to Start your email account(s) from the Mail app to be able to quickly open the Mail app directly to the email account you want from Start.
This tutorial will show you how to Pin to Start an email account from the Mail app for your account in Windows 10.
When you right click or press and hold on an app on the taskbar or Start menu, it will open the app’s jump list.
Jump Lists is a feature that lists app specific tasks or items you can quickly open or get to for every day usage. Jump lists can include recently opened items, frequently opened items, tasks, or websites, in addition to pinned items. You’ll always see the same items in the jump list for an app, regardless of whether you view the jump list on the Start menu, taskbar, or File Explorer.
If you like, you can disable displaying and tracking items over the network from remote locations in Jump Lists.
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable showing remote locations in Jump Lists for all users in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.
A Tile is an image that represents a pinned app on Start. Live tiles on Start display information that are useful at a glance without opening an app.
The default for tile groups on Start is to have 3 columns of medium sized tiles, but Microsoft has heard feedback from many Insiders who wanted the ability to have a 4th column as well, so they could have two wide or large sized tiles side by side in a group. Starting with Windows 10 build 10547, a Show more tiles on Start setting has been added to be able to do this now. .
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the ability to change the Show more tiles on Start setting for all users in Windows 10.
The Most used group on your Start menu All apps list will show up to 6 of your frequently opened apps to make it easier to open them from as needed.
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the ability to show most used apps on the Start Menu All apps list for all users in Windows 10.
The Start menu in Windows 10 has a Start list that you can choose which folders appear on Start in the list. You can add or remove the File Explorer, Settings, your Documents, your Downloads, your Music, your Pictures, your Videos, Network, and Personal folder to your Start list to open from your Start menu.
This tutorial will show you how to back up and restore the folders on Start list of any user account on your Windows 10 PC.
Items on your Start menu are the total count of shortcuts displayed in All apps and pinned tiles combined.
All apps in the Start menu displays an alphabetical list of shortcuts to all installed Windows apps (Microsoft Store) and desktop apps on your Windows 10 PC. Some of these shortcuts are grouped into folders with the folder name in the alphabetical list.
Pinned tiles are the apps, contacts (People app), folders, drives, library, network, etc… that you pinned to Start and have sized, arranged into groups, group names, and used in Live Folders as part of your Start layout.
By default, the Windows 10 Start Menu only supports showing up to 2048 items. If you have more than 2048 items, some or all items may no longer show.
This tutorial will show you how to measure how many items you have on your Start menu for your account in Windows 10.
All apps in the Start menu displays an alphabetical list of shortcuts to all installed Windows apps and desktop apps on your Windows 10 PC. Some of these shortcuts are grouped into folders with the folder name in the alphabetical list.
This tutorial will show you how to rename items listed in All apps on the Start menu for your account, new accounts, or all accounts in Windows 10.
The Start Menu will show shortcuts of all programs (apps) listed in All Programs (Windows 7) and All Apps (Windows 10).
The Start Menu for an account will include items (ex: app shortcuts) from the following profiles:
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove items from the User profile from the Start Menu for specific or all users in Windows 7 and Windows 10.
The layout of your Start menu includes how you resized the Start menu or full screen Start, pinned items, how the tiles of pinned items are sized, arranged into groups, group names, and used in Live Folders.
This tutorial will show you how to allow or prevent changing the Start screen layout for specific or all users in Windows 10.
All apps in the Start menu displays an alphabetical list of all your installed Windows apps and desktop apps in Windows 10. Some of these apps are grouped into folders with the folder name in the alphabetical list.
Starting with Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14942, users can hide or show the app list (aka: “All apps”) in their Start menu.
If you like, you can enable a policy that allows you to either collapse or remove the all apps list from the Start menu.
Collapse and disable setting will not display the app list next to the pinned tiles in Start. An “All apps” button will be displayed on Start to open the all apps list. This will also disable Show app list in Start menu in Settings.
Remove and disable setting will remove the all apps list from the Start menu and full screen Start, and disable Show app list in Start menu in Settings.
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the all apps list from the Start menu for specific or all users in Windows 10.
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The layout of your Start menu includes how you resized the Start menu or full screen Start, pinned items, how the tiles of pinned items are sized, arranged into groups, group names, and used in Live Folders.
If you like, you can specify a default Start layout in Windows 10 for users and prevent them from changing it.
This tutorial will show you how to set a default Start menu layout for specific or all users in Windows 10.
The Start Menu will show shortcuts of all programs (apps) listed in All Programs (Windows 7), Apps screen (Windows 8), and All Apps (Windows 10).
The Start Menu for an account will include items (ex: app shortcuts) from the following profiles:
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove items from the All Users profile from the Start Menu for specific or all users in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.
The Recently added list on your Start menu shows the latest new desktop apps and Windows apps installed.
Starting with Windows 10 build 17083, you can prevent the Start Menu from displaying a list of recently installed apps.
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the ability to show the Recently added apps list on the Start Menu for all users in Windows 10.
You can open a context menu in the Start Menu by right clicking or pressing and holding on an app’s tile on the Start screen or on an app listed in All Apps.
Starting with Windows 10 build 17083, you can prevent users from being able to open context menus in the Start Menu.
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable opening context menus in the Start Menu for specific or all users in Windows 10.
The Photos app included in Windows 10 is a universal app that allows you to enjoy, organize, edit, and share all your digital memories. It brings together photos and videos from all your devices, enhances them to make great photos even better, and organizes them into beautiful albums for you.
If you pin to Start the Photos app and turn on its live tile, you can change the appearance of the live tile to show recent photos or a single photo that you choose.
This tutorial will show you how to change what the Photos app live tile shows on the Start menu for your account in Windows 10.
Some apps or games in Microsoft Store are designed to take advantage of specific hardware or software capabilities on your Windows device. A photo app might need to use your phone’s camera, or a restaurant guide might use your location to recommend nearby places.
In Windows 10, you could use the Privacy page in Settings to use a list of app permissions to toggle on or off access for every app. This can be inconvenient when you only want to turn on or off permissions for a specific app instead of having to open the privacy setting for each and every permission to turn on or off access for the app.
Starting in Windows 10 build 17063, Microsoft has made it easy to view all permissions an app has asked for in one location, along with an easy way to toggle the permissions on or off for the app.
This tutorial will show you how to quickly view all app permissions for an app and turn them on or off in Windows 10.