Fix Your Windows 11 User Experience

If you’ve recently installed Windows 11, chances are that you found some of the changes off-putting. In this video I show you a number of settings tweaks that might make things a bit better, as well as a paid third party solution that fixes pretty much all of Windows 11’s burning UX issues.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro
1:05 Move the Start menu
2:17 Add links to Start
3:10 Remove the Widget button
4:10 Remove personalized ads
5:37 Remove File Explorer ads
6:23 Limitations
6:39 About Registry edits
7:24 Start All Back

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- Windows 11: The Review:

- The Genesis of Windows 11:

- Windows 11: Explained:

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[pschroeter]

The number of times I've heard W11 users waiting for and hacking things to get back features I still have in W10 is hilarious. I still haven't figured out why I would upgrade just for a centered taskbar, neutered start menu, and rounded edge windows. It was a relief when the upgrade tool told my I couldn't upgrade my three year old computer.

[nickye]

What it needs:
-show seconds in clock without third party app
-tray icons on all monitors
-direct links to specific pages in settings like in win 10

[hgos]

For me, the Windows 10 start menu just looks so much better with its dynamic tiles, compared to Windows 11.

[protektor]

There is something wrong with putting the start button in the center for non 100% touchscreen users. Putting it in the corner makes the button 1000x bigger because you can just blindly move your mouse there. Same with the minimize everything button on the bottom right.

[johnnyvalient]

You are the greatest. The personalization and with that start back program is the great. This has been the best 5 dollars I've ever spent and you can customize so much and make windows what it used to be.Thank you again.

[raidensakura]

StartAllBack is worth it for the price they ask considering the customization they offer. I really couldn't get used to right-clicking the start button to access task manager, and you can center your apps icon while still having the start menu on the left too which I really like the aesthetics of. I've been using it for a while now, even before I switched to win 11, they offered upgrade from StartIsBack which is for win 10.

[st.altair]

I'm _this_ close to switching to Linux. Microsoft seems to be hell bent on making the user experience progressively worse with each OS update.

Game compatibility has been getting impressive on Linux, and I'll probably switch to it once it gets to Windows level

[jrtheweeb]

Pay $5 to get my desired experience in win11... that may actually be worth it, but still ridiculous that its not already in win11 by default.

[wizmohaghanem]

2:10 Imagine placing the start menu left on an Ultra-Wide display

[infinitewisdom]

I love the style of these videos. And always straight to the point. Also funny. Truly an awesome channel.

[RedStinger_]

I did not know about ads on file explorer until now, and I'm happy I dont have to experience them.

[muhammadkashan]

This tutorial is amazing and you are really good at teaching !! great job sir !

[dotnomi]

Start11 is also a very nice tool for the taskbard and startmenu when you like the boxes from windows 10

[Aci_yt]

I wish they would let us have a web-context menu like in maya, ideally customizeable

[NuStiuFrate]

I'm gonna move to win11 after i don't have to do any registry editing to have things the way i like it. Not because i don't know how to edit the registry but because if i need to fight the os that much, it's not for me.

Taking away moving the taskbar wherever i want it is such an insane thing to do. Like Apple designed 11.

[sulaimanaljabari]

I have a problem with the audio bar! if it could be changed to the previous location now it is in the center of action in addition it lags sometimes and takes a while before disappearing!

[mathieuplourde]

the biggest turn off for me is the locked taskbar... I'm used to put it on the side of my 2nd screen, since windows XP!

[AwaixJavaid]

Windows 11 cannot be fixed with tweaks, it needs to be fixed by Microsoft itself.

[FoxBlocksHere]

The worst problem I've had in Windows 11 so far is that Bluetooth audio volume is not always unified with the volume of my computer. It has started working recently, but only sometimes, and this is after months of it not working at all.

[newmachine]

Explorer Patcher for windows 11 its the best free option it works like startallback essentially.