The Start menu (called Start screen in Windows 8, 8.1 and Server 2012) is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since...

graphical user interface. Its function is to toggle a menu (sometimes referred to as a hamburger menu) or navigation bar between being collapsed behind the...

restore familiar features from past versions of Windows. It focuses on the Start menu, File Explorer and Internet Explorer – three major components of the Windows...

readily identifiable elements consist of the desktop, the taskbar, the Start menu, the task switcher and the AutoPlay feature. On some versions of Windows...

Microsoft's Natural Keyboard in 1994. Windows 95 used it to bring up the start menu and it then became a standard key on PC keyboards. On computers running...

run Microsoft Store apps inside desktop windows and a more traditional Start menu modeled after Windows 7's design by using only a portion of the screen...

features that have been part of the product ever since, including the Start menu, the taskbar, and Windows Explorer (renamed File Explorer in Windows 8)...

for any folder containing images or videos. Some functionality from the Start menu was removed and replaced with other features. Folders and groups Live...

Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system introduced an updated Start menu known as the "Start screen", which uses a full-screen design consisting of tiles...

Kelley Polar Start-1, a Russian launch vehicle Start (command), a command in Windows Start button Start menu, element in the Windows GUI Start screen (Windows)...

shell influenced by the canceled Windows 10X, including a redesigned Start menu, the replacement of its "live tiles" with a separate "Widgets" panel on...

Pokki, a replacement for Windows 8's Start Menu Pokki is designed to return the core functionality of the Start Menu, to restore features such as the ability...

have from eight to 255, the Windows Explorer, and the "Start" button which summons the Start menu. Accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign that generated...

from the Start menu. Connect To and Network are no longer available on the Start menu by default; users can still add these links to the Start menu. Dynamically...

tinted with the color of the desktop wallpaper. Significantly redesigned Start menu, adhering to the principles of the updated Fluent Design System. Center-aligned...

a PC or server is shut down by selecting the Shutdown item from the Start menu on the desktop. Options include shutting down the system and powering...

since June 16, 2020. New features include new theme-aware tiles in the Start Menu, new features and improvements to Microsoft Edge (such as a price comparison...

extension by SweetLabs, Inc., that alters the start menu to a look and feel like the second generation start menu used before Windows 8. The extension also...

Windows 10 reintroduced the start menu as seen in versions of Windows prior to 8. However, unlike these versions, the new start menu includes live tile features...

Character Map in the Start Menu. On Windows 10 and Windows 11, the utility is in the Windows Accessories/Windows tools folders in the Start Menu, respectively...

oriented user interface, replacing the previous Program Manager with the Start menu, taskbar, and Windows Explorer shell. Windows 95 was a major commercial...

facilitating switching between running programs. The taskbar and the associated Start Menu were created and named in 1993 by Daniel Oran, a program manager at Microsoft...

hidden and could be clicked/tapped to be shown. New Start menu: Microsoft redesigned the Start menu with a focus on productivity, with the search box now...

The Start menu is coming back to Windows". PC World. IDG. Retrieved April 2, 2014. "Future Windows 8.1 update will finally bring back the Start menu". Ars...

Windows XP, the Start menu shortcut to NetMeeting was removed “by design”. Users had to start conf.exe manually from the Start menu Run dialog. As of...

copy settings. IceWM has an optional, built-in taskbar with a dynamic start menu, tasks display, system tray, network and CPU meters, mail check and configurable...

desktop windows, and a revised Start menu, which creates a compromise between the Start menu design used by Windows 7 and the Start screen, by combining the...

contain either a Win32 or a Universal Windows Platform app, icons for the Start menu and taskbar, a virtualized version of any Windows Registry keys needed...

All Programs menu in the Vista Start menu into flyout cascading menus. Subfolders inside the All Programs menu in the Vista Start menu cannot be opened...

adoption of Windows 95's user interface, introducing features such as the Start menu and taskbar to the Windows NT product line. It also includes various performance...