You can now try Microsoft’s new Start menu for Windows 11

Microsoft is present allowing Windows 11 testers to effort retired a new, larger Start paper that includes a scrollable interface, caller views, and much customizability. An aboriginal mentation of the caller Start paper first started showing up successful Windows 11 builds successful April, followed by Microsoft’s official announcement successful May. Today’s Dev Channel release lets you effort it retired officially for the archetypal time.

“We’re making it easier for you to motorboat your apps with our updated, scrollable Start menu,” explains the Windows Insider team. This scrollable Start paper means that each apps is present astatine the apical level, truthful you don’t person to navigate to a 2nd leafage to find your apps.

You’ll besides beryllium capable to disable the recommended conception truthful you tin spot much of your apps, and take 2 caller views: class and grid. The default class presumption groups apps by category, and the grid presumption is ordered alphabetically much similar a accepted database view.

Microsoft has besides made the Start paper larger based connected the surface size of your instrumentality oregon monitor. “On larger devices, users tin expect to spot 8 columns of pinned apps, 6 recommendations, and 4 columns of categories successful the Start menu,” says the Windows Insider team. “On smaller devices, you’ll spot 6 columns of pinned apps, 4 recommendations, and 3 columns of categories.”

There’s besides a caller mobile instrumentality fastener connected the Start paper that lets you grow oregon illness the Phone Link interface that appears alongside the Start menu. Microsoft is besides allowing Windows 11 users to take what fastener surface widgets appear, allowing you to adhd oregon region widgets and rearrange them for the fastener screen.

Finally, this latest Dev Channel physique besides includes a caller Gamepad keyboard update that lets you motion into a PC with a PIN codification utilizing a controller. This is portion of Microsoft’s enactment to improve Windows 11 connected handheld gaming devices similar the precocious announced ROG Xbox Ally devices.