A missing Start menu can feel like losing your way in a familiar room—suddenly, everything becomes harder to find. Fortunately, restoring it isn't too difficult if you follow the right steps.

If you'd like to test the new Windows 11 Start menu, with apps in recommended category folders and other helpful functionality, this is how you try it.

Beyond restoring the Start menu to your liking, you can also use Start11 to do things like changing the icon for the Start button, limiting Start menu searches to only search your PC instead of ...

Ahead of Windows 8.1's public preview release on June 26, we now know exactly how the resurrected Start button and menu will work. While it's still bad news for those of you who were hoping for ...