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Search is one of the central experiences of Windows 11, as Microsoft brought a new search icon. You even can set custom background textures, too. Seeing the Windows 11 Taskbar 100% transparent is quite interesting as it makes it feel like old-school MacOS. You could blur the wallpaper under the background, choose your own custom color for the Taskbar, and even adjust its transparency. In changing the Taskbar, there’s a couple of cool controls. I wanted to change the Taskbar instead of the Start Menu. During one point of my tests, this is what I ended up doing. If you like the way it looks, you can keep your current Start Menu by choosing “Use the Start11 Start Menu” to off in the settings menu. Swapping out the Windows 11 Start Menu for Start11’s take is a completely optional thing. Start11 puts you in full control of how you want your Windows to look. There you only can swap backgrounds, accent colors, and windows titles, and border colors. Point is, all these controls go beyond what you’ll find in the Windows 11 settings menu.

You even can use a custom texture if you want. The best part of it all? You can adjust the menu transparency a bit and take Microsoft’s Fluent Design to new levels and get a true glass-like feel. I swapped my settings around to make the icons a bit bigger, and show the icons as a grid rather than a list.

Of course, there is the option to move the Taskbar to the left, too (though Windows settings let you do this, too). You even can hide your profile icon, and change visual settings like the color, font, and icon sizes. There are many levels of controls here, from bringing back the Windows 7 style menu, to a more modern style many that blends Windows 7 elements with Windows 10 elements. In my hands-on time, this ended up being my favorite part of the app experience. The core experience of Start11 revolves around customizing the Start Menu. But does it live up to the hype? Start Menu Start11 promises to help you restore the Classic Start Menu so that Windows looks and feels more like the way you want.

We were provided a review code by Stardock and have been playing around with the beta experience over the past few days. If you’re one of those people and prefer to tweak Windows 11 beyond what Microsoft currently allows you to do, then you might want to check out Stardock’s latest product, Start11. Now in the center of the screen and with static icons instead of Live Tiles, a lot of people aren’t too keen on the big redesign. Windows 11 brings many big changes and one of those involves the Start Menu.

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