![]() ![]() Later developments in Internet Explorer and subsequent Windows releases make it possible to customize the Start menu and to access and expand Internet Explorer Favorites, My Documents and Administrative Tools ( Windows 2000 and later) from the Start menu. The menu also offered the ability to shut down and log off from their computer. The latter was comparable in some respects with the Apple menu in Mac OS and did not have the mentioned limitations of Program Manager: Being a menu, it allowed nested grouping while keeping only one group open at the time. Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 replaced the Program Manager with the desktop and Start menu. It lacked the ability to nest groups within other groups. Program Manager consisted of a simple multiple document interface (MDI) which allowed users to open separate "program groups" and then execute the shortcuts to programs contained within. It was made to overcome the shortcomings of Program Manager in previous operating systems. The Start menu first appeared in Windows 95. In Microsoft Windows, the Start menu in some form appears in Windows 9x, Windows NT 4.0 and all subsequent versions in the Windows NT family, as well as Windows CE, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone. Until Windows Vista, the Start menu was constantly expanded across the screen as the user navigated through its cascading sub-menus. Windows XP's Start menu was expanded to encompass various My Documents folders (including My Music and My Pictures), and transplanted other items like My Computer and My Network Places from the Windows desktop. Later enhancements via Windows Desktop Update included access to special folders such as "My Documents" and "Favorites" (browser bookmarks). ![]() Traditionally, the Start menu provided a customizable nested list of programs for the user to launch, as well as a list of most recently opened documents, a way to find files and obtain assistance, and access to the system settings. It has been co-opted by some operating systems (like ReactOS) and Linux desktop environments for providing a more Windows-like experience, and as such is, for example, present in KDE, with the name of Kickoff Application Launcher, and on Xfce with the name of Whisker Menu. ![]() The Start menu was renamed Start screen in Windows 8, before returning to its original name with Windows 10. The Start menu, and the Taskbar on which it appears, were created and named in 1993 by Daniel Oran, a program manager at Microsoft who had previously collaborated on Great ape language research with the behavioral psychologist B.F. The Start menu is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, providing a means of opening programs and performing other functions in the Windows shell. It also allows for 'placeholders' before the app is even installed.Graphical user interface element included in Microsoft Windows since Windows 95 (I find Tile better than DesktopApplicationTile because it doesn't matter where the shortcut. I tried to give a variety of sizes and types to help.īonus: To get the name of an app to put in AppUserModelID, run in PowerShell Get-StartApps Still, hopefully now you or anyone stumbling across this later can get the idea of how to use this template to make their own custom Start Menu layout file. Also a size of only 4 does not seem to work. Unfortunately I have not figured out how to change this per panel/group it appears to be all-or-nothing, despite the separate GroupCellWidth="8" entry. Note in particular the StartTileGroupCellWidth="8" in the XML. ![]() If you're still on 1709 or so, run: Remove-Item 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CloudStore\Store\Cache\DefaultAccount\$start.tilegrid$' -Force -RecurseĪfter all that, either reboot, or kill the Explorer process with If you're on Windows 10 version 1809, run: Remove-Item 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CloudStore\Store\Cache\DefaultAccount\*$start.tilegrid$' -Force -Recurse Unfortunately the way to do that seems to change every year. The easiest way is to wipe your start menu. You probably want it to apply to your own user profile too. Run: Import-StartLayout -LayoutPath "C:\Temp\Layout.xml" -MountPath "C:\"Īt this point that layout would apply to all users created after this point. xml extension, like Layout.xml, and put it somewhere easy to type, like C:\Temp. This can be done, but it is not so simple. (I realize this is three years later, but I found it when searching for how to do similar, and later learned how to do it. ![]()
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