How To Move Windows 11’s Start Menu To The Left Corner

Windows 11 introduces a new, centered Taskbar, complete with icons that are grouped in the center of your screen, rather than the familiar left-hand corner. If this feels weird, Mark is here to show you how to move your Start menu and Taskbar icons back to where they were in the days of Windows 10.

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[nathanteach]

It was a relief to fix this daft abstraction, and to see the start button in the correct and logical place where it can be operated fastest, and without obscuring the middle of the screen.

[Niei]

Ever since I bought my first PC I've been moving the taskbar to the top of the screen. I was working on a Mac at work and PC at home and since Apple didn't allow any modifications to the user interface (Apple always think they know what's best for you) it just felt more natural to have them both at the top so I always changed it in Windows.
I bet I'm not the only one so it would be silly if they now stop giving users that option.

[chemistryguy]

That was super easy...barely an inconvenience. THANK YOU!

[keselekbakiak]

i jsut installed windows 11. and this is the first thing i do

[nichole]

I am so grateful for you, I hate updating in the fear of them changing too much... center taskbar was too much of a change for me

[kickin]

Now show me how to move the entire task bar vertically to the left side of the monitor pls just like i have it in Windows 10 (as god intended for ultrawides!)

[heyhow]

You saved me. I just got a new laptop and wanted to install windows 10 just only for the reason that the start is not in the left corner.

[Danny.Thompson]

Thank you so much, this has been driving me crazy!

[empathyisonlyhuman]

Kudos on a well made video. I was wondering if this was possible. Just installed win11 last night and the centered icons were jarring. Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.

[hegahonda]

this just made my desktop look sooo much better on my laptop

[thebluedinosaur]

Thank you so much for this man! windows 11 really didn't felt natural only beceause of this problem and you just fixed that

[scottmcfadden]

Thanking you for the insightful tip that fixed something bothering me.

[jonathan]

This is great and was wondering about this for days.

[daflipbizkit]

Still boggles my mind they went Elon Musk and implemented something different for the sake of being diferrent. Why break something that isn’t broken? It was that way for decades and now they have to “update” them to give old functionality that people are used to.

[hua..]

now is there any way to keep the start on the left but every other taskbar pinned app center? Because that's what I used in windows 10

[DrearierSpider]

I'm hoping Open Shell gets an update for Windows 11. Windows 7 still has the best start menu by far, and while 11 is an improvement on 10, the layout still isn't great.

[Ducenoir]

Thank you no confusion straight to the point

[cinderembers]

Thank you so much for clearing this up! I couldn't stand it being in the middle of the bar. It's such a simple fix my monkey brain couldn't figure it out. So thank you for doing it for me!

[dalebenton]

I done the same, Put my start menu in to the left corner, Better than being in the middle of the taskbar, Im not long upgraded to a new gaming computer with Windows 11, No longer with Windows 10

[MikMok]

Is there a way to set the Start icon to the left side of de taksbar, but keep the rest of the icons in the middle?