It wasn’t there.
One rainy Tuesday, she needed her old project tracker—a niche .exe from the shared drive called “LogiTrack.” In Windows 10, she’d had it pinned two rows down, third from the left. She clicked it without thinking.
Gone were the live tiles she’d arranged like a personal command center. The weather tile that showed rain before she stepped outside. The news tile that gave her headlines with her coffee. The folder of utilities she’d built over five years. add to start menu windows 11
She had added it to Start Menu. And somehow, she had added herself to Windows 11.
Now, the Start Menu was a stiff grid of static icons. Flat. Lifeless. Like a phone screen glued to her desktop. It wasn’t there
She right-clicked the app in the taskbar anyway. A menu popped up. At the bottom, small and unassuming:
For the first time in two weeks, she smiled. Then she spent the next hour rebuilding. Not tiles—she couldn’t bring those back. But folders. She learned you could drag icons onto each other to create folders in the Start Menu. Finance, Utilities, Archive. Gone were the live tiles she’d arranged like
Elena had been putting it off for weeks. Her old Windows 10 machine finally gave up—a quiet death, screen frozen on a spreadsheet. The new company laptop arrived the next day, sleek and running Windows 11.