Navigating the Windows Start Menu from A to Z Quickly & Easily
This tip is for Windows 11, but if you’re using Windows 10, don’t worry. You can see the Windows 10 version of this tip here. Even though the Windows 10 Start menu looks much different than the Windows 11 Start menu, you can use the same method of navigation as we’re going to show in this tip.
OK. Let’s say you want to navigate to Windows Tools in the Windows 11 Start menu but don’t see it in the main menu, which is probably already crowded.
So you click on the Start button and scroll from the programs/apps that begin with A to the ones that start with W (for Windows tools). Well, yes you can scroll from the A’s to the down to W’s or do it the quick & easy way.
1> Click the Start button
2> Click “All apps” in the top-right corner.
3> Click on the letter “A”.
4> Click on the letter “W”
5> Click on “Windows tools”.
Here’s an animation for you. You’ll see how quickly you can go from the programs and apps that begin with a number or the letter “A” to the programs and apps that begin with the letter “W” or “X” “Y”, “Z” or any letter in between. You can do this anytime you would otherwise have to scroll down the Start menu to find a program or app. It’s a lot quicker than scrolling. Watch…
Oh, and one more thing. If you like typing, you can quickly get to most programs or apps anywhere on the Start menu by typing its name in the taskbar search. But I’d rather get to a program or app without typing – because I’m lazy. Life is complicated enough so I try to keep as many things as I can as simple as possible.