In this session
of the Windows 11 tutorial I'll demonstrate how to use the start menu in Windows 11.
the start menu in Windows 11 allows you to access the various applications installed on your
computer the various settings in your computer as well as other files and navigate to the files
and so on so it's basically a way to access what your computer what is available in your computer
so to access the start menu in Windows 11 notice that now it is centered in the bottom here we
click on start with this icon here in the bottom left and that's where the start menu is in Windows
11. notice at the very top of the start menu you have the search option and this is Windows search
it's also the same function as over here to the right of the start menu right below the search
option you have the pinned applications those are commonly used applications that have either been
pinned by Microsoft by default or that you can pin them on your own manually if you don't want one of
this applications pinned in here you can right click and choose to unpin it from the start menu
if you want a particular application to show up in here let's say we want PowerPoint search for it
and then right click on it and choose pin it you can search for the applications once
you locate your application you can right click and choose to pin it to the start menu
if we click on the start menu again we should have here PowerPoint as one of the options
listed in here notice I have to navigate to scroll down to access it from here now
if we want to move one of those to a different location in the start menu in the pinned area
we can select it and then drag it up or down in your list of applications here
to the right of the pinned area here we have the all apps this is how you can access all
the applications in your computer so if you click here on all apps notice that they are categorized
alphabetically and you'll simply scroll down and access any of those applications now notice that
these applications here some of them contain folders so if we click here on techsmith for
example notice that there are various other options within that folder one application
could contain other sub applications as part of that main application further down here we have
also the recommended apps these are applications that Microsoft is recommending for you to have
access directly from the start menu these could be various files that you have used or various
applications installed in your computer to remove one of those applications from a recommended list
here you can right click and choose remove from the list further down in the start menu we also
have the option to log off this is the account that I'm logged into this computer currently and
if you wanted to switch accounts you'll click on it and then choose to change account settings or
to lock the account or sign out on the right hand side this is where we have the power options so we
can choose to put the computer to sleep from here or we can shut it down or restart the computer
furthermore we could customize the start menu by clicking on this empty space because notice
we have all this empty real estate here on the bottom between the account logged
in and the power options to get to the settings of the start menu right click
anywhere where they are in this empty space between the two and choose start settings
now from here we can select a different view so if we wanted more icons to show up as more pins
to be displayed by default it's basically some of the pinned apps and then recommended apps
but if you want more of the pinned apps as part of that real estate you can choose to more pins
and it will look like this notice more of them showing up
or more recommendations more recommendations will give you more of the it will shrink the
space of the pinned apps and it will give you more recommended options down here below if you
do not want to show the Recently Added apps in the start menu you can turn this option off so notice
down here I have this is what I had installed recently these two applications if you don't
want that options you can choose off here and now those will no longer show up in the start menu
to to show the most used apps in the start menu in Windows you can select
this option turn this to on and now if I click on the start menu
they'll show up in here now this account I don't use it much so that's why you're not seeing any
difference at this point I use this only for the recordings you can also choose to hide
or show the recently opened items such as file explorer files and if you want to turn this off
now notice that the recently open files that I had from earlier they'll no longer show up as part of
the start menu further down you can choose to show the various folders as part of the start menu so
this would be items that you want to be displaying in here between the DL staff and the power options
so we click on here and then let's say I want to show the settings there I want to show file
explorer documents downloads music network settings or even personal folders this is
new with the latest update from 2022 for Windows 11. it allows you to create personal folders in
your computer as part of the start menu now if we go back to the start menu notice that
down here I have all of these options that I can access the documents downloads or whatever
I selected to add over here so that is how you use the windows 11 start menu [Music]