Home windows 11’s Begin menu redesign is getting a redesign

Microsoft revamped the Home windows 11 Begin menu design final yr, a redesign that’s nonetheless step by step rolling out to customers on variations 24H2 and 25H2. Whereas an evolution on the Begin menu is sorely welcome, there’s been widespread criticism of its new look and conduct, together with the truth that it’s just too massive and takes up an excessive amount of display area.

So possibly it’s no shock to listen to that Microsoft is planning yet one more redesign of the Begin menu for later this yr, having taken the criticism to coronary heart and shifting ahead with one other iteration that can hopefully be higher acquired—and extra according to its Home windows objectives.

In keeping with an Insider construct of Home windows 11 (noticed by Home windows Newest), a number of adjustments to the Begin menu are already being examined, going “significantly additional than what reached common customers in 2025.”

One massive change would be the choice to resize the Begin menu, with a Giant preset that exhibits extra pinned apps and greater class sections, and a Small preset that shrinks down for a extra compact view that’s higher suited to smaller decision screens.

One other change will probably be extra toggles that allow you to disguise the pinned part, apps record part, and really useful part. You’ll additionally be capable to disguise your account title and profile picture.

And it’s not simply visible adjustments. The once-more-revamped Begin menu will include some efficiency boosts as properly, helped partially by the brand new Low Latency Profile characteristic that revs up the CPU when performing sure repetitive duties (like opening the Begin menu), but in addition partially as a consequence of Microsoft rebuilding the Begin menu with native WinUI.

These Begin menu adjustments and advantages are anticipated to reach when Home windows 11 26H2 releases in October of this yr.