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My laptop upgraded to Win 11 recently and I am absolutely annoyed at the new start menu.

I loved the one in Win 10. I had all my shortcuts pinned, sized, grouped and arranged and in my 3 years of using it, I never once had to scroll the program list or search to get to a program.

I don't understand why MS$ has to mess up what is good.

This is definitely 10 steps back, because you can list out things the new menu cant do but the old menu can.

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I think it works a lot better to just get into the habit of pressing the windows key and start typing the name of the program you want then you just press enter to launch. Once you have the muscle memory, it's so much quicker and you don't usually even have to look at what you are doing.

That would require the search to work properly. Search for Device Manager: Dev - Devi - Device - Device Manager (Internet Suggestions). What? Search for Resolve (Da Vinci Resolve) it tries to suggest resolve. I find search in windows is unusable. Windows 11 is slightly better than 10, but not a lot.

It has greatly improved over time with windows 10. Though I do still occasionally have the issue you are talking about. Wox launcher is an excellent replacement and with autohotkey you can replace the function of the windows key to launch wox instead. But windows 10 eventually got good enough that I stopped using wox.

For my first several years of using windows 10, search literally did not work at all. And it was apparently a pretty common and very difficult to solve problem according to online searches at the time. But they finally got their act together somewhat.

For searching for files, I still use "Everything".

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