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Show recommended files at start recent files in Explorer and items in jump lists: 1 item for all 3?
I am no longer surprised by the level of blatant self-promotion of Microsoft products on Windows 11, I'm utterly dismayed by how poorly it performs in almost all categories, but even by these unfathomably low standards, this one takes the biscuit: Today I noticed that the utterly dysfunctional start menu of Windows 11 (please just give us back Windows 10, that was okay-ish?) has only 1 button for 3 completely unrelated items, and I quote from my settings: "show recommended files at start, recent files in file Explorer, and items in jump lists". Is thinking among developers at Microsoft so basal that no-one has thought that we might want separate control over these items? I think it's fair to say there has been sufficient kick back to Microsoft's attempts to promote its own products in the start menu, but here they've grouped together 3 completely unrelated elements and asking us to choose all nothing. To be clear: I don't ever want a single recommendation from Microsoft on my computer (which I have to use for work, otherwise I would be elsewhere), but I do find recent files kind of useful. Is that really that mind-blowingly surprising? Please tell me that there is somewhere else where I can separate these out and choose one but not the other. Many thanks.
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As of now, there is no built-in way in Windows 11 to separate these options and control them independently through the standard Settings interface. Microsoft has simplified the interface, but that often comes at the expense of flexibility.
