Where’s the rest of my Windows 10 Start menu?

My installation of Windows 10 in place of Windows 7 went smoothly. However, my one difficulty is that my Start menu only has a left -hand pane – not the right- hand pane containing tiles that I see in your magazine’s screenshots. Can you help?

We’re not sure how this has happened, but there is one possibility: when you were running Windows 7 perhaps you installed a replacement for Microsoft’s Start menu. Many people have done this in Windows 8/8.1 because it lacks a traditional Start menu, but tools like Classic Shell (www.classicshell.net) also work in Windows 7, letting you make all sorts of customisations. Classic Shell (and other tools likeit) will continue to work in Windows 10 – so may be that’s your culprit.
If you want the full Windows 10 Start menu experience, tiles and all, then go to your Control Panel to uninstall any such tools (press Windows key+X,then click Control Panel followed by ‘Uninstall a program’under Programs).

Alternatively, it could be that some upgrade quirk led to Windows 10 wiping all tiles from your menu. To add some, click Start followed by ‘All apps’, then right- click an app and choose ‘Pin to Start’. When you’ve added a few, you can resize the Start menu just by dragging and dropping the top or right- hand border.

Source from Computer Active Magazine

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