Enable the redesigned Windows 11 Start menu

This week, Microsoft began testing a redesign for the Windows 11 Start menu . It's now rolling out to Windows Insiders on the Dev and Beta channels , and it fixes several issues with the original Start menu, which was released in late 2021. Nearly four years later, Microsoft is considering a redesign.

The updated menu now features a single-page view, with all your apps scrollable. You can toggle the All Apps list between three variations: list, grid, and category. Most importantly, you can hide the suggested section from the Start menu settings.

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The new Start menu is available in this week's Dev and Beta updates , but Microsoft is rolling out the changes gradually, which means you may not be able to see it even if you're on the latest version.

If you don't want to wait, you can enable the new Start menu and Phone Link button using a few commands in the ViVeTool app.

Let's see how:

Download ViveTool by GitHub and unzip the files into a folder.
Open Command Prompt as Administrator and navigate to the folder containing ViveTool with the CD command. For example, if you have placed ViveTool in C:\Vive, type CD C:\Vive.
Immediately after that, type

vivetool /enable /id:47205210,49221331,49381526,49402389,49820095,55495322,48433719 and press Enter.

Restart your computer.

Although Microsoft hasn't said anything about when we'll see the new Start menu, it probably won't take long for it to appear in the Release Preview version.

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