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The build ships with the usual bug fixes coupled with quality-of-life improvements.

Its most recent update adds the capability to pin websites on your Start menu.

Start11 will let you pin websites on the Start menu

Other than right-clicking it to shutdown/hibernate, I have not used it in 25 years.

To me, it is a colossal waste of time to launch apps via Start."

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Immediately visible and accessible on clicking the Start button.

“Now in Win 11, it’s amazingly been removed.

““Windows 10 Start is unquestionably superior to Win 11.

Start menu in Windows 11

It’s not even close.

I deliberately keep a few machines permanently on Win 10 to remind me of when Start was great.”

Alternatively, you could trigger it manually by clicking on your taskbar and selectingConfigure Start11.

Windows 11 Start menu

Next, clickAboutand selectCheck Nowto search for the latest updates.

Windows 11 Start menu customization settings

Start11 option to use vertical taskbars on Windows 11.

Windows 11 classic Start menu

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