Start menu is back with Windows 10 and it is the default setting for users having a Mice and Keyboard attached to their systems. However, the Start Screen (or full screen Start Menu)Â is not gone. It still exists and should be the default layout for those of us using Touch Enabled devices such as Tablets. For those interested in using the full screen Start on their desktops, it can be easily enabled in Windows 10. Similarly, users who want to change from full screen Start Screen to the smaller Start Menu can also follow this tutorial.
Switch Between Full Screen and Compressed Start Menu
Desktops users (especially those upgrading from Windows 7) will be more happy with the smaller Start Menu as it works better while using Mouse as the controller. But for those with Touch capable screens, full screen Start Screen will be a better idea as it is a way more touch friendly than the Start menu. Anyways, here’s how to alternate between the two and choose the one you like.
- Click Start and choose Settings.
- Open Personalization and choose Start from the left menu.
- Enable or Disable the toggle under Use Start full screen.
Enable/Disable Full screen Start
Won’t work for me. Start Screen has been stuck on my computer since I updated to Windows 10, and changing the setting doesn’t help. I have restarted it multiple times then tried again, but it still won’t work. Is there anyone who may know of a solution to the problem? Is anyone else experiencing this?
Hi, would it be possible for you to post a screenshot of how it looks? Do you have a tablet or hybrid device?
same thing for me
The same thing is happening to me.
Thankfully I’ve installed ClassicShell, Spybot Antibeacon and managed to disable the inbuilt Windows 10 menu and all of the application based crap that M$ have pumped into this release of Windunce.
I just realized this, I had my computer in tablet mode. All you have to do to get rid of table mode is click the little message box in the bottom right, at the bottom there will be twelve boxes the first box says tablet mode. Click there and your desktop is fix. 🙂 Hope this helped!
Omg thank you A++ worked like a charm.
Kiki, you solved a big problem that I have been struggling with for days. Thanks so much.
Pat
OMG!! I knew it was something simple!! I just couldn’t figure out what it was! LOL… Thanks A MILLION!!! XOXOXOXOX 😀
Really helpful.
I struggle for pinned tiles for few hours. Finally, your answer is the most accurate one.
Thanks a lot.
Kiki, YOU ROCK!!!! I have been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how on earth to get my plain old desktop back!
Thanks Kiki – new pc and just solved my problem 🙂
That worked. Thank you very much!
KIKI!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!! Ohhhh…this has been awful….glad you posted this and saved my sanity! 🙂
all u have to do is slide the right side of your computer and turn of tablet mode
Hi…when i m clicking on start menu tiles , it is not working ….what to do ..?
guys i tried to enable the full screen menu of windows 10 from personalization/start/ off but still the full screen is not shutting off… its locked on full screen menu……..
me too!!!
Tried Danny’s sugggestion, still not getting start screen to pop-up when i click it…. Only works when I switch it to full screen
all u have to do is slide the right side of your computer and turn of tablet mode
I have deselected “Use Start Full Screen” but it still opens full screen. It is really getting in the way. I tried to restore to a previous setting, but the Restore capability has been removed, presumably from a recent “upgrade”.
Same problem dude help me to know how to fix it
Make sure that you have not activated “Tablet Mode”.
Danbny, you’re an absolute star! And what dorks Windows are……!!
danny, i love you
Thanks Danny,
I was since July fighting with this!!
God bless
Danny:
awesome fix, was going nutz!
In my laptop i upgraded from the existing windows 7 home premium to Windows 10. It was working for one or two days. After that yesterday when i was working the following message came in the monitor “Your Computer needs to shut down ” .After it shut down and i started it again it did not boot up and come to the start menu.
The computer hangs before i log into my account by giving the password. kindly help to solve this problem
regds
SENTHILKUMAR
Figured out how to get the start menu back after switching to start screen.
go to settings, system, tablet mode, turn off where it says make windows more user friendly when using your device as a tablet.
Thanks Danny, that fixed my problems with my Asus Tablet/Laptop device…
thanks danny, i had trouble all day with that.
Thanks Danny. Wow, imagine that
Ace – thanks for this. Trawled what seems like the entire internet for a fix. I’m not even on a tablet.
Thanks!
Thanks so much Danny! Hah, i can finally sleep easy now 🙂
One more voice to the chorus: Thank you, Danny! Your solution is the Solution!
Danny, you’re the man! This drove me up the wall for days. Thanks for sharing this solution!
You’re a champ, Danny! Took myself and a colleague a long time to work this one out and only got it to work after trying out your suggestion!
Glad that it was helpful to both of you 🙂
You have no idea how happy you just made me. Thank you so much! So disappointed about windows.
Thank You spent days trying to sort this out was on verge of a reset.
Yay!!!! Thanks!!!
omg. thank you! it was driving me crazy – no idea how it turned itself on to begin with.
You… Are… A…. Savior…
THANK YOOOOOOOU! That stupid Start Screen was pissing me off!!!
Danny…i could give you a kiss right now. shit was driving me crazy. you are a darling
Danny, you are the champion of the world. Thanks so much!
A THOUSAND TIMES THANKS YOU
One more time — THANK YOU, DANNY!
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaas!
Having same problem start will not work. Where is microsoft with the answer?
Microsoft will simply ask you to reset your PC 😛 JK.. Hope they release a fix soon.
Same issue here as well! There are loads of people who since upgrading to Windows 10, have lost the start menu, even the Microsoft Edge. There are bugs in this new OS and I now know why they offered it for free.
Yes, I am having the same problem. I right clicked TaskBar and the Start Menu tab is not there. I am using a computer with a mouse. Windows 10 might not be the one for me. I’ve been online all morning and have yet to find an answer.
I’m having the same issue… start menu does not work.
Me too! I have a Start button under my personalization properties and I turn off the “Turn on the Start sceen” button, but nothing changes! I still have start screen either way. It is driving me crazy, I just want to work with my desktop. Windows, what the hell!?
Exactly the same with me. It is sometimes impossible to get to the screens I’m working on. Alt-Tab doesn’t do it. And in my settings it is OFF, but my start screen is open, full-screen, constantly. It was not like this in the beginning of W10.
I don’t have the start menu tab in the properties menu. I’ve tried posting the following in PowerShell and still nothing:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}
Windows 10 is pissing me off!!!
I dont have a start menu tab in the properties menu
I dont have a start menu tab in the properties menu ither so now what?
Like others before there is no start tab under properties. Where is it going? Tired of reloading to get to work once the after restart is gone.
I’m sorry, but this was there in very early Windows 10 builds. MS removed it later on i guess.
‘Use the Start menu instead of Start screen’ is not in my start menu properties . The start menu doesn’t open and the personalize option when I right click o my desktop shows – ‘This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or, if already installed, create an association in Default Programs control panel.
Ahem. That box is no longer there. You cannot switch anymore. Unless there is another way we obviously don’t know about. The start menu and Cortana show up when you go into a game. If you could fix it so that they ONLY show up when you either click it or press the start button that would be nice.
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