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Microsoft just confirmed one of the most user-friendly Windows 11 Start menu updates yet! I’ve criticized the Windows 11 Start menu for years because Microsoft made simple choices unnecessarily difficult. If you want a clean pins-only Start? You had to fight multiple settings, unpin apps one by one, and risk breaking recent files elsewhere. That’s finally changing. Microsoft says Start will get separate toggles for Pinned, Recommended, and All. You’ll also be able to turn off file recommendations in Start without disabling recent files in File Explorer or Jump Lists! There’s more: Small/Large Start menu sizes, better file relevancy, “Recommended” being renamed to “Recent,” and an option to hide your name and profile picture when screen sharing. Start is the first thing millions of people touch every day. Microsoft is finally treating it like something users should control, not something Windows decides for them.

Forza Horizon 6 got leaked early on PC 4 days early 💀Someone at Microsoft forgot to encrypt the pre-download, what an insane screw up

Microsoft's hidden Windows 11 trick makes apps launch 70% faster. I tested it on a low-end PC, and early results are promising. Right now, when you click Start, open File Explorer, launch Edge, or right-click for a context menu, and there’s often that tiny micro-stutter before anything happens. Microsoft is now testing a feature called Low Latency Profile. Once turned on, and you do a high-priority action, Windows 11 briefly pushes the CPU to max frequency for 1–3 seconds, finishes the task faster, then drops back down. In my testing on a constrained VM with just 2 cores and 4GB RAM, the difference was obvious. Edge, Outlook, Copilot, and the Start menu opened much faster. CPU usage spiked to around 96–97%, but only for a few seconds. For high-end PCs, the difference may be small. But for budget laptops and low-end Windows 11 machines, this could be a real game-changer.