
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. Expand the drop-down menu next to Taskbar alignment and select Center.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.Expand the section called Taskbar behaviors.
Right-click on the taskbar and select Taskbar settings. If you’re not comfortable installing a third-party app, you can still left-align Start Menu like in Windows 10: So if your primary Windows 11 pain point is the Start Menu, you might want to use a third-party tool. Windows offers just one built-in tweak to make the Windows 11 Start Menu look like Windows 10 (though it does offer other Start Menu customization options). Position Start Menu to the Left Using the Built-In Tweak There are a few easy ways to fix the problem, though. Worse yet, you see plenty of wasted space on the Windows 11 Start Menu. Suddenly, Windows wants us to position the cursor somewhere closer to the center, based on how many pinned taskbar icons you have. For decades, we had been moving the cursor to the bottom left and left-clicking to open the Start Menu - I could do it in my sleep. The Start Menu is perhaps the most dreaded change in Windows 11. How to Make Windows 11 Start Menu Look Like Windows 10 You always want the option to undo the changes should you mess something up, so create a restore point before you perform any of the tweaks in this guide. There’s room for error whenever you’re changing too many things in Windows.