Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tech-torial for you.
This time on how to customize your windows 10 start menu,
and out of the gate it's a little bit overwhelming when you first
see it. It's got a lot of things that they make
assumptions here that you're going to want to need.
Some of them are helpful and some of them not so much
but i'm going to show you how to customize this here in this video
the first thing is when you open up the start menu
it's got too many things, and most of them you don't even want. So it's
learning how to remove the items you don't want
from the start menu. For example this one here
it's got a picture of an arrow facing down with a little underscore under it
and when you hover over it tells you what it is, like this one here is One Note
and it doesn't really give me a highlight of the name
but this one here just says that a great app is on its way
well, there's really nothing there it's just taking up space. So if we right
click on it, one of the options here is to unpin it from the start menu
and that will remove it from there. One of the things to know is that
unpinning a shortcut doesn't uninstall it from the computer
there is another option in there when you right click other than unpin you
have uninstall and that would uninstall it.
but if you unpin something and you didn't really mean to do that
you can simply go searching for it in the start menu
you can pin it by right clicking on the program in the programs
menu and pin to start, it pins it to the
bottom of the list over here, but you can grab that and drag it back
into position where you want, which is something else, is rearranging
the files that you want. So right clicking you've got unpin or
uninstall if you want to completely remove it from the computer
and you know how easy it is now where you can right click on a
program and this one here is already pinned
somewhere in the start menu so it's asking us to unpin it. So you could
actually unpin it right from there and this is where you can pin it again
because it doesn't exist on the start menu to right click on you can do it there.
So now you can add and remove.
Rearranging, now there's a couple of things with that. You've seen
where i grabbed and moved the one because when i added it back in the
Paint 3D was down here and I didn't want it there
some of the things will be a little bit of a challenge because
as you move, you got to be a little bit patient and careful with it
because here it's wherever you position the mouse,
you gotta hold down the mouse button and you can see
this will allow me to go halfway down and I go a little bit further and now
goes all the way down. Now if I go a little bit further
it will bump that one back up in the list
so you can see how that works. A little bit up will bump it up but
going just above it and then coming back down
again, it pushes that icon back down. Now,
if you're having a hard time with that and you want to shift them around
you could always just grab this move it much further out of the way
move the other one and then grab that back and then your
you got it where you want except for this one that
got in the way, but it takes a bit of playing with
and you'll be able to see how that works for you
one of the things with rearranging is grouping
and you may have had this happen by accident and trying to figure out how to
ungroup but if i grab this guy and see I even have a hard time trying to
get it on top because it wants to move it but if i can get it
to be on top like this and then I let go, it's just grouped them
together so we have a little arrow here and it shows the two underneath
so if I click on this arrow it collapses that group
and I now have these two together in one group because they're both Microsoft
products. So if i wanted to open one of these I
would click on that, it expands the group, now I can click on the program that I
want to launch. So that can condense things well for you
but what if you want to ungroup them. Well this is the group
section here. So I'll grab this and move it out of the group
so that took that one out of the group but there's still a group here
which contains just that one program by itself. So if I want to take
that one out of there as well and just have them
separate because it doesn't make sense to have
one program in a group by itself just grab that and drag it outside of
the area of where the group was and when I let go now
they're separate, they're not in a group anymore.
One other feature I really like is resizing. So you can already see
that some of these are the same square size but you have some that are
rectangular like this. So if I right click on one
I can go to resize and you have the options of small, medium, wide, and large.
This one is set to medium, so you can see what a medium one looks like
If I want to make it small, you can see here that it's taking up a quarter of the size.
So I could actually condense
a lot of these down and then drag them the same way as we were previously.
and I can fit in... maybe I'll take this one and maybe you'd
want to...you have four different web browsers and
you want to have the web browsers all together in one group, then you can have
a little group of four web browsers here taking up the same amount of space
as a single one would that's a medium size.
The other size, if we move this up here, when you right click you can when you go
to resize you see, it's got a check mark on what the size
currently is. So that one's a medium and this is a small. If we look at this
one here, this is wide.
it's good for things like the store and the news, news feeds,
things like that, which here's our news feed here. We'll come back to that in a
moment. The weather is also another one. If we
right click on that, go to resize, there's large.
and that would make it a whole lot bigger
to be able to see certain things. So you might want
some Apps like that to give you a preview to show
bigger on your screen and especially if you've
got it containing some information like let's go to the news
so now the preview that we get on the news is a lot more legible
The settings you can access by right clicking on any
any icon here, go to more. Some of them are
live tiles, they call them. They're shortcuts
but they call them tiles you can turn it off so it's not going to keep
rotating around showing you a picture slideshow or the weather
changing and all that stuff. It's not going to be giving you
up-to-date information constantly. It'll just be a static shortcut.
There's also the app settings and there's not a lot you can
do in here other than just allowing the permissions
for your location, which is helpful for things like the weather and the news
and allowing it to run in the background. You can also change
things such as your battery usage and that as well.
To modify this, because you can see here that the news feed is actually
running right now and it's making assumptions about what we want to see
the weather isn't moving at all. So let's click into the weather
and launch this app. Once you launch it for the first time it's going to ask you
a few questions such as your preferred measurement if it's in
Fahrenheit or Celsius and if you want to detect your location
or you could specify where it is.
Hit start once you have it, and it gives you
your weather for that location. Let's close out of it and have a look at
our start menu now
and now our live tile is giving us the weather
and it is active; and you can see how it looks in the different sizes.
The large might be too big for you
but you might find that the medium is just big enough to actually see what the
current weather is which is very convenient
Let's have a look at the news.
Once you get into the news, it gives you
a little wizard that you can run through. It wants you to sign in so it'll help
you personalize things but you don't have to
here's where you can choose what you would like to see
and it's got some of the things starred. So you could turn on and off what you want.
Maybe you want to focus on more news or sports. Maybe you want
to have health. Let's narrow this down
So currently we just have health checked off.
We'll hit done and it asks you if you want to get notifications, you don't
really need to have notifications popping up that can be a bit annoying
So now that we've got our news customized it's going to be giving us
a little preview of things based on the categories we chose and if you want to
actually view the news again, you just left click on it like we did and that's
where you can choose your favorites or just simply read the news.
This also you'll notice that the start menu is wide.
So if we can unpin a lot of this
now that we cleared up that side of the screen. I'll just click out of the start
menu and click back into it and it's automatically
resized it down. So we can see our desktop. Part of it over here at the
same time while looking at our start menu.
So it's a lot cleaner now having just the...
just the tiles that you want for the shortcuts to the programs you care about
resized and resorted exactly the way you want them
and that's how you can customize your start menu.
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