In 2016, Microsoft made a decision everyone had been dreading – serving ads directly to your Windows 10 operating system. At first, it was only a lockscreen advertisement for "Rise of the Tomb Raider" ...

Here's how to shrink the giant Windows 11 Start menu and hide unwanted sections using the August 2026 optional update and ViVeTool commands.

New toggles declutter the Start menu with size options hideable profile and tailored recent items for a neater launchpad.

To remove the Recommended and All sections from the Windows 11 Start Menu, first disable Recommended items in Settings under Personalization > Start by turning off all recommendation toggles. To ...

In the upper area, you can define the general layout and control how many icons should appear in the Start menu. In the Start menu settings, you can use sliders to specify what Windows 11 should and ...

Windows 11's KB5120998 brings a movable taskbar, resizable Start menu, and Bing-free Search. Here's how to force all three on ...

The moment you start using a new Windows PC, you might notice that the experience isn't quite as clean as you expected. There ...

Windows 11 has some interesting new features incoming based on the latest preview version of the operating system. As well-known leaker on X (formerly Twitter) Albacore noticed, in the fresh preview ...

Microsoft's latest attempts to push Windows forward have received some blowback. Will its incessant AI and cluttered UI ...

Microsoft has finally brought back the resizable taskbar and Start menu to Windows 11 in the latest preview version rolling out to Insiders in the Experimental channel. Starting with Windows 11 ...