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MVP

Sep 06, 2021

I want to be able to group app icons on Start menu - Windows 11

for example I want to put PWAs icons in one group, put Photo related app/software icons in another group and so on. Ideally I want to do this by dragging an icon on start menu and dropping it on anot...

Copper Contributor

Dec 25, 2021

I totally agree. Microsoft, please put back the Windows 10 grouping. It was so quick to find what I want but now only having 18 icons available at first glance is awful. MS Office alone has 8 so now I'm down to 10 icons left. Another issue is we can no longer right click icons in the start menu to see recent and pinned post opened items. I could write a book on all the negative things about this start menu... please fix it...

A couple positive things include shrinking the search bar to an icon (with quick access from Windows key) and the rounded corners (back to Win XP).

MarinM

Iron Contributor

Jan 30, 2022

There is actually an option to show a search icon instead of a search box in the Windows 10 taskbar, and the search can be accessed just by typing when the start menu is open in Windows 10, even though there is no search box displayed - so Windows 10 does give you quick access to search from the Windows key as well. So there are absolutely no improvements in the start menu and taskbar in Windows 11 - just fewer options.

DrakeJ
Copper Contributor
Jan 30, 2022
Ah, I was just trying to find something positive to say. 🙂

For now until Microsoft does something better with the start bar I purchased Start11 which gives me a much improved version of the start menu. Sad we have to buy a third party just to have basic features that make since. 😞
- JohnI95
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 08, 2022
  I agree that the disappearance of the start menu app grouping is really unfortunate for all the reasons many have already stated.
  
  The best workaround I have found is putting icons on the desktop and grouping them visually (no group name). Instead of using the Windows key to get the start menu, I now use "Windows-D" to display the desktop. I realize this is very Windows 3.1-ish, but I wanted to avoid adding in some third party solution.