10 Ways To Customize Your Windows 10 Start Menu

Change the look and feel to your liking

The Start Menu is one of the most used features on Windows computers as it hosts options to access your files and apps. You can actuallycustomize the Windows 10Start Menu if you don’t like the default tiles, layouts, or even the color of the menu. Windows gives you the ability to change the look and feel of the menu to your liking.

This gives you an opportunity to remove unwanted items from the menu and make it decluttered, add your most useful apps to the list, get rid of app suggestions, and even enlarge the menu to cover your entire screen.

Resize The Start Menu

On most computers, the Windows 10 Start Menu only occupies a part of your screen real estate. If you want it to stretch and cover more area on your screen, you can customize the Windows 10 start menu in this way by dragging it to whatever direction you want it to stretch into.

Add & Remove App Tiles

The Start Menu doesn’t have a tile for each app installed on your computer. However, you can add tiles for your chosen apps to the menu if you like. You can also remove existing app tiles if you don’t want to keep them there.

Right-click on the tile you want to remove and selectUnpin from Start.

Rearrange Tiles In The Menu

Windows arranges the tile icons by itself but you can manually arrange them to give priority to your most used tiles. You can change the order of the tiles and your apps will appear accordingly.

Disable Live Tiles

There are certaintiles in your menu that show live informationsuch as real-time weather data. If you don’t use those tiles, you can turn them off so they aren’t live anymore.

Add Tiles Into Folders

If you’ve added more tiles to your menu than it can accommodate on a single screen, you can group your tiles so they all appear in a single folder-like structure. You may want to use it for the tiles that are related to each other (such as entertainment apps).

Change The Tile Size

Like the Start Menu, you can change the size of individual tiles as well. This way your chosen tiles can appear larger or smaller than any other tiles in the menu. You may want to do it for your frequently used tiles so they’re easy to locate in the menu.

Enable Full-Screen Menu

If you often pick items from the Start Menu, its default size might not be convenient for you. Luckily, you can customize the Windows 10 Start Menu to go full-screen. It thencovers your entire screenwhen you launch it.

Change Start Menu Color

The Start Menu adapts the default color of your system, and if you don’t like the current color, you can change it fairly easily. All the tiles and the icons in the menu will then use your chosen color.

Disable App Suggestions

Sometimes Windows suggests youapps that you should be installingon your computer in the Start Menu. If you don’t like it, you can disable an option and it’ll hide app suggestions in the menu.

Change The Folders That Appear In The Menu

Windows shows certain folders of yours in the Start Menu by default but it gives you the option tohide and unhide these folders. This way you can customize the Windows 10 Start Menu and only keep your chosen folders in the list.

Have you ever customized your Windows 10 Start Menu? If so, what changes did you make to it? We’d like to know your personal experience tweaking the menu and let us know in the comments below.

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