• Hate the Windows 11 Start menu? Theres already an app to change i

    From TechnologyDaily@1337:1/100 to All on Thu Aug 12 10:30:04 2021
    Hate the Windows 11 Start menu? Theres already an app to change it

    Date:
    Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:12:49 +0000

    Description:
    Stardock is on hand with more interface morphing software, though like
    Windows 11 itself, the app is still in beta.

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    Windows 11 has made sure users cant switch away from the new centrally-aligned Start menu recently blocking a workaround which did just that but theres already a third-party app out for the beta of Microsofts OS for those who want to change this part of the interface.

    Start11 is in itself still in beta, but is now available for those testing Windows 11, and it allows users to ditch the current Launcher-style Start menu. You can switch back to either a modern take similar to Windows 10 (aligned to the left, not the center), or indeed you can travel back in time to a Windows 7 effort whichever best floats your UI boat. Windows 11
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    The initial beta of Start11 can be grabbed right now for $5. As Windows Central reports, Brad Wardell, Stardocks CEO, observed: This first beta is designed to regain some of the lost functionality in the current Windows 11 Start menu. We have a lot of exciting new features planned to make the Start menu not just more accessible, but also more useful to companies and power users.

    That includes bringing in ideas such as the concept of pages [and] tabs as well as keeping things nicely minimalistic. Analysis: Lets not forget what betas are about, though

    If you really cant stand the new design of the Start menu, then this is a route away from that pain (for a small fee). More choice around the type of Start menu you might want is always a good thing, and hopefully when Windows 11 is actually released, therell be an option to switch back to the Windows
    10 menu (or something close to that layout, anyway, even if elements like
    Live Tiles are still killed off).

    It makes sense for Microsoft to give users that choice, and the only reason its not available in the beta of Windows 11 could well be because the
    software giant needs people to actually test the new way of working. After all, if the majority of folks running Windows 11 preview builds switched away from the new Start menu, then with many fewer testers using it, problems
    would be much less likely to be discovered.

    Remember, the beta is all about testing and making sure Windows 11 works well and runs smoothly, so its understandable that Microsoft would want people using the revamped Start menu (and providing feedback on the reasons why they dislike it, if thats the case testing goes beyond bug squashing, of course). These are the best laptops of 2021



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