Replace windows start menu icon

Hope this helps people What if clicking or right clicking on the start menu logo yields no reaction at all? Can't access the menu nor can type CMD or search or anything. The start menu just responds no more. How can one reset it to default setting?

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Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 5 people found this reply helpful. It's pain to go through and manually reset them all. Worse for many applications like Office modules you do not have the option to manually change the icon. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

I have the same question Unfortunately, Microsoft removed this functionality in Windows Unfortunately not. Previously, you could add a registry value to restore the Windows 10 Start menu. In recent Windows 11 versions, this registry hack no longer works. Technically yes.

While not officially supported for Windows 11, it does work. Open-Shell-Menu still looks a lot like the Windows 7 Start menu. Here's how to fix it. By Tina Sieber. How to align the Start menu to the left To change the Start menu alignment, right-click the Taskbar and select Taskbar settings.

How to manage pinned apps The Windows 11 Start menu comes pre-filled with pinned apps. With this software, the user can launch files, folders, programs, and even bookmarks.

By just typing a few initials of the name you can find the programs available on your PC to launch. MaxLauncher is one of the best Windows start menu replacements.

The user can simply customize the quick menu with the apps and folder they want. By just dragging and dropping the files and folder you can adjust the menu.

Other than customizing the menu, it is very easy to open the menu. The software can save time and effort for the user to open or launch any program. Our aforementioned list contains some of the best Start Menu replacement applications that are currently available in the market. So, this was all folks! The icons will now appear on the left side of the screen.

Hide the "Task view" icon optional. Since this function tends to crash, I recommend hiding the button by right clicking on the taskbar, selecting Taskbar settings and toggling Task view to off. Hide the search box optional. The good news is that the Start menu replacements have their own search boxes built in. In the end, you will have a taskbar that works with any of the utilities and looks a bit more Windows like.

You'll also have the Windows style File explorer and right-click, jump-list menus that look like Windows 10 and have all the options on them.

Overall, though, we recommend using StartAllBack or Start11, both of which can properly align themselves on the taskbar and prevent Windows 11's native Start menu from appearing. If you want to do even more to give your Windows 11 a classic look, see our article on how to make Windows 11 look and feel like Windows Avram Piltch. Topics Windows. Operating Systems. See all comments Overall not a significant change and nostalgia and fear of change would be the only reason I can see for people wanting to stick to the old look.

I for one will miss the Windows 10 Start menu. Not because of Live Tiles, that was a nifty feature but I never saw it used in a way that was "useful" other than maybe the weather app tile.

Since Windows 8, I've adopted an approach of pinning basically everything that I could need to the start menu. It's laid out in a way that makes sense to me and I know where everything is. On Windows 11, I think you can only pin 18 items before having to scroll through them.

They can't be freely placed, either, they are arranged in rows sort of like iOS. So, blah. Just throwing icons on the desktop is not really my thing, because then I have to deal with minimizing all open windows to access it.

The closest thing that I've found to replicate the Windows 10 Start menu as a one-click app launcher is WinLaunch, but that one doesn't have as much layout flexibility as the Win8.