{"id":902300,"date":"2026-04-29T04:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/windows-11-users-are-still-fixing-the-start-menu-with-third-party-tools\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:20:32","slug":"windows-11-users-are-still-fixing-the-start-menu-with-third-party-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/windows-11-users-are-still-fixing-the-start-menu-with-third-party-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 users are still fixing the Start menu with third-party tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Microsoft rethinks where they&#8217;ve failed with Windows 11, many users rely on tools like Open Shell, Start11, StartAllBack, and ExplorerPatcher to take back control of the UI. Open Shell remains a free favorite with a customizable Windows 7-style menu, while Start11 and StartAllBack offer more polished tweaks for modern systems&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/downloads\/7103-open-shell\/similar\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Thomas Antes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Microsoft rethinks where they&#8217;ve failed with Windows 11, many users rely on tools like Open Shell, Start11, StartAllBack, and ExplorerPatcher to take back control of the UI. Open Shell remains a free favorite with a customizable Windows 7-style menu, while Start11 and StartAllBack offer more polished tweaks for modern systems&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,22504,23032],"tags":[5413,5412],"class_list":{"0":"post-902300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"category-users","9":"category-windows","10":"tag-users","11":"tag-windows"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}