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JohnScott716
Copper Contributor
Nov 24, 2025

Regarding Windows 11 & The Windows 11 Start Menu

Good evening Microsoft Community, 

 

My name is John Scott, and I work within technology and IT Support industry. I also like doing technology as a hobby as well. With that being said I wanted to get right into this discussion.

 

I am going to say the following about Windows 11 that I always been saying for over a year. The "start menu". I submitted various feedback and monthly and yearly updates about how bad the start menu is within the Feeback Hub on Microsoft but there is only one or two Microsoft Official Responses...

 

 I am going to say my feedback on this discussion because I know I am not the only one with this feedback comment. Microsoft when Windows 10 came out it was not perfect but it also not as bad until final builds came to light. The start menu on Windows 10 was resizable; it had live tiles but also the feature to turn off live tiles and resize the applications and size on the start menu. It was very simple and easy to use. It had the start menu of Windows 7 & Windows 8 merged together into one. Windows 10 was a wonderful OS. I understand the world is moving into AI, but you could have implemented AI on Windows 10 keep things the same and kept pushing updates. No, you did the exact opposite made a whole new OS and called it Windows 11. The pros of Windows 11 I love the taskbar UI, I like the File Explorer it can be cleaned up a bit, but it is not as bad. Now going to the "Start Menu" I will say the same thing in my feedback hub on the discussions thread on here. The Start Menu Takes up too much almost half the size of my screen which is an '27 monitor curved screen, it feels bulky, I can't customize it to the way Windows 10 was. I know you can say download a third-party application to get the Windows 10 Start Menu and go through hoops that is not an option for me. I understand change but understand what user preferences I think the voices of the users, community, everyone that makes Microsoft and Windows together is the "Community & The outreach of Support that hold Microsoft Together"

 

I hope that this feedback and support reach the Microsoft and Microsoft Community together to understand the point of view that others including myself that are saying about Windows 11 with its features and Start Menu. Thank you. 

 

-Regards, 

John 

 

Windows 11 John's Desktop Start Menu (25H2) 

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  • Spigolo's avatar
    Spigolo
    Iron Contributor

    Hi John

     

    Here we are just users helping each other.
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