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Yarisyoyo
Jan 29, 2026Bronze Contributor
How to Remove These Annoying Category Folders in the Windows 11 Start Menu?
Need help! Many category folders (such as "Productivity tools," "Creativity," "Games," etc.) have automatically appeared in my Start Menu, grouping the application icons that were previously displaye...
Medinoc
Jun 16, 2026Tin Contributor
My work computer's start menu switched to this layout following the most recent update.
Changing the view to List works for maybe five minutes, after which it forcibly reverts to Category.
tapenatta
Jun 29, 2026Copper Contributor
Having the same issue. Seems related to settings in the "Startmenu and Taskbar" GPO section. Deactivating every setting in there seems to have helped and stops the start menu from reverting to the Category view. Further testing is still necessary though.