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Barbloki
Brass Contributor
Oct 30, 2021

Windows 11, Start button menu, make it show all apps by default

I upgraded to Windows 11 this week and I don't like the new Start button menu.  I don't want "pinned" apps.  I want to see All Apps in a list like before.  Why don't we get the option to choose how w...
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JohnSz365
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Nov 16, 2021

Mousefluff 

 

WOW!  So Microsoft really wants to make it difficult if not essentially impossible for the average Windows user to retain the perfectly logical conventional behavior of selecting from the full list of installed apps.  I do really wonder where we are going when every new version of Windows becomes harder to use than the last one.  It would never have occurred to me that something that could be handled with a simple configuration switch setting would require registry changes.

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saltpiefarm
Copper Contributor
Jul 31, 2024
Doh I need to apologise, Microsoft have already fixed this. If you click start and select the "All Apps" button you get an alphabetic list of apps. Thanks guys!
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    Justin_Emlay
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 31, 2024

    That's not a fix. That requires using a mouse and clicking multiple things. A "fix" would be allowing the app list by default which is how Windows used to work. Or a third party fix would be to use WindHawk with the "Show all apps by default in start menu" pluggin.

    Also, that Show All Apps link has been there from day 1.  Nothing has changed.

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        JEmlay
        Copper Contributor
        Jul 31, 2024

        saltpiefarm clicking the start menu is one click.  Clicking the start menu then having to click the link is two clicks.  Or pressing the Win key then having to go for the mouse, is also ridiculous.


        Either way, it’s not going to change back.  People need to get over it.

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