Unpin and resize live tiles on the Windows 10 Start menu (Image Credit: Russell Smith) And to change the layout, drag and drop the tiles into position to get your preferred arrangement. Live tiles can be resized and unpinned by right clicking them and selecting the required action. Look for apps you want to pin to the Start menu under All Apps or the MRU list, right click and select Pin to Start from the menu.
The right side of the Start menu is for pinning live tiles, which happens in the same way as it is possible on the Windows 8 Start screen. You can disable Internet search from the Start menu by enabling the Don’t search the web or display web results in Search policy under Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Search in Group Policy. (Image Credit: Russell Smith)Īt the bottom of the Start menu is the All Apps link, which works the same as in Windows 7, and the Search everywhere box, which in Windows 10 also searches the Internet and is powered by Bing. Windows can be prevented from auto-populating the MRU list in the Taskbar and Start menu Properties dialog, by deselecting Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu and Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and taskbar. Although you can remove an item from the list by right clicking it and selecting Remove from the menu, it’s not possible to add items to this area yourself. Customize quick links on the Windows 10 Start menu (Image Credit: Russell Smith)īelow the quick links is a list of the most recently used (MRU) items. In the Customize Start Menu dialog, select and deselect the links to be displayed on the Start menu. The Taskbar and Start menu Properties dialog will appear, where you can switch to the Start Menu tab and click Customize. The links can be customized by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Properties from the menu.
Learn More User options on the Windows 10 Start menu (Image Credit: Russell Smith)įurther down, quick links provide a fast way for users to get to their Documents and Pictures folders, PC settings and File Explorer. We repeatedly got one question that surprised us: “Why would I ever trust a third party with control of my network? Research has found that the average business user must manually type out, or copy/paste, the credentials to 154 websites per month. Shockingly, they are among the most common passwords that end users choose in 2021. No, these are not exercises for people who are brand new to typing. Under those options, any other local user accounts on the PC are shown so that you can switch users.ġ23456. The menu for the currently logged-in user allows them to change their account picture, lock the device, and sign out.
Starting from the top left, there are buttons to sign out, shutdown, and restart the device. To reinstate the area, right click a Windows Store app in the MRU list or under All Apps, and select Pin to Start from the menu. Tip: To completely remove the live tiles section of the Start menu, unpin all the tiles. The left side of the menu is divided into several sections not dissimilar from Windows 7, but different nevertheless, and the right is exclusively for Windows 8-style live tiles.
The Start menu in Windows 10 is a combination of the Windows 7 Start menu and the tiled Start screen in Windows 8.
* Under “Change the size of text, apps, and other items: 100% (Recommended)”, move the slider to less DPI percentage, and check if it is fine.In this Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to manually customize the Windows 10 Technical Preview Start menu and how to configure the layout using Group Policy. * Open Settings app from Start menu, select System > Display. The scaling settings of Windows 10 might causes the feature running into something wrong. * On the right pane, double click on ResetCacheCount with REG_DWORD type, and change its value data to 1. \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\ * Expand the HKEY_CURRENT_USER, navigate to the sub-location: * Press Win + R from your keyboard, type regedit and click OK button to open the registry editor. Then sign out and in to Windows and all Live Tiles will be working again. * On the right side, double click on the “Turn off tile notifications” entry, check on Disable box, and click OK button to save changes.
* Under Local Computer Policy, expand the User Configuration. * Press Win + R from your keyboard, type gpedit.msc and click OK to open the Local Group Policy Editor.