Fix Windows 11’s Starting up menu with Stardock’s straightforward recent app

If you’re no longer delighted with the uncover about and feel of Windows 11’s overhauled Starting up menu, a fix is coming. Now not from Microsoft, even supposing, but from Stardock’s recent Starting up11 app.

This is just not any longer the foremost time Stardock has advance to the rescue. The studio makes a living off making improvements to the uncover about and feel of Microsoft’s running methods with tools love Groupy and Fences. Start8 gave Windows 8 a Starting up menu, and Starting up10 updated Windows 10 with a Windows 7-themed Starting up menu, too. Now Stardock has save out to polish the Windows 11 Starting up menu and its search capabilities.

Our hands-on with the legit Windows 11 beta presentations how Microsoft has shaken up no longer handiest how the Starting up menu seems, but also its design. Currently, there’s a utilitarian matrix of icons in the Windows 11 Starting up menu, which stays mounted at the guts of your display. It be very varied from the feeble Starting up menu invent.

Starting up11 fixes that with bigger, brighter icons and the flexibility to hasten the Windows 11 Starting up menu over to the left-hand corner. You’d additionally add submenus, purchase the background coloration, and manually gain out the well-liked functions it’s essential to want to test front and middle. Stardock has promised future enhancements to the hunt box, at the side of faster, more factual results and the flexibility to plan straightforward math complications in some unspecified time in the future of the hunt box itself.

Starting up11 might perchance perchance perchance additionally be extinct to alter the Windows 11 taskbar as effectively. 

Stardock’s Starting up11 utility is cheap, but it’s no longer free: $4.99 for the Starting up11 beta, with out a indication if that would be the closing tag. (Stardock also promises a Starting up11 for Alternate notion, with quantity discounts.) And must you already dangle Start8 or Starting up10, Stardock might perchance perchance perchance objective provide the flexibility to enhance at a prick price. You’ll merely want to click on the link at the bottom of the download page to position an divulge to the developer must you qualify.

Ultimately, a observe of warning: Windows 11 aloof stays in the advance stage, so Microsoft might perchance perchance perchance merely use Starting up11 as inspiration and integrate some or all of its suggestions into the running machine, completely free. If you appropriate can’t stand the uncover about and feel of Windows 11 dazzling now, nonetheless, Stardock provides another. And if Microsoft doesn’t invent subject fabric adjustments to its subsequent-gen Starting up menu, Starting up11 will seemingly be in a position to aid, appropriate love Starting up10 and Start8 sooner than it. 

As PCWorld’s senior editor, Label focuses on Microsoft news and chip technology, amongst other beats.