The Start menu, which was at first absent from Windows 8, is back in all its glory in Win 10.
It looks like this:
If you’re like me you’d like to get rid of many of the boring Microsoft stuff, and put in some shortcuts of your own.
To remove a (boring) shortcut
right-click on a shortcut icon and then click ‘Unpin from Start’.
To put in your own shortcut
right-click on a program in the desktop (this won’t work with a document, video, etc.) and click on ‘Pin to Start‘.
You can also do this simply by dragging the icon from the desktop to the start menu icon.
Change the Start menu’s color
Go to start menu>settings,
then choose Personalization,
And then click on Colors, you could pick a color that will adorn all your menus, including the start menu.
If you’d choose Orange, for instance, your Start menu will look like this…
Make the Start menu open in full-screen
Again, if you go to start menu>settings,
then choose Personalization,
and then choose Start on the left in the window that opens up (red in the screenshot below), you could check the option to ‘Use Start full screen‘ (orange in the screenshot below), together with some other less-exciting-but-perhaps-useful options.
To access popular but more advanced options from the Start menu
simply right-click on the Start icon, to see this:
This menu could also be accessed by pressing Windows Key + X on your keyboard.
Disable or enable Cortana
Cortana is one big sticking icon on your Taskbar and start menu that many people don’t even want to use. If you don’t like it that much to, then you may want to disable it and the Cortana icon will turn to the searching magnifier one.