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Darren Allan

Microsoft is messing with Windows 11’s Start menu and jamming in more adverts – and I’m sick of it

Angry person using a laptop.

Windows 11 is set for a change to the Start menu that’s not been popular in preview, and will surely be even less popular when it makes its full debut in Microsoft’s operating system next week.

The change in question involves a new account manager section that’s been added to the Start menu – though I say added, but the real controversy isn’t so much its addition as the fact that it replaces existing functionality that’s more useful. (Well, not so much replaces as hides, and we’ll come back to that).

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