How to customize the Windows 10 Start menu. The start menu lies at the core of every Windows 10 user interface and acts like a sort of home portal that houses all of your apps shortcuts and user account settings. However, most users don't realize that the start menu can actually be customized. Even making the simplest of color scheme or layout changes can go a long way in making your system feel more personalized. So in this Ninja One video, we'll guide you through some ways you can customize the Windows 10 start menu. Before we begin, be sure to subscribe to Ninja One's IT Video Hub for more tech content like this, how to customize the Windows 10 start menu. Customizing the Windows 10 Start menu is incredibly simple and can be done without any coding knowhow. The first way to customize your start menu is to simply add or remove apps. Pin an app to your start menu by right clicking the application and selecting PIN to start. Conversely right click on the apps you don't need and choose unpinned from start. You can also create folders to declutter your start menu. To do this, simply drag one app on top of another. This automatically creates a folder, which you can then rename. Another easy customization method is to resize the start menu Windows, tiles, or both to edit window tiles. Simply right click on the desired tile and choose resize. You can also personalize your start menu with a color scheme. To do this, go to settings, then personalization. Select colors and design away. You can set accent colors and toggle between light and dark modes. Live Tiles is a handy Windows feature that provides real-time updates from your apps to enable them right click on a tile, select more, and then choose Turn live tile on. You can also configure live tiles to display notifications and updates. How to reset the start menu to default settings. If you encounter problems with customizing your window start menu, we recommend either resetting the menu to its default settings, conducting a system, restore, or creating a new user profile. And there you have it. Since customizing the Windows 10 Start menu is so simple, you can easily change its appearance to give your system a whole new look. For more information, check out our official blog post on customizing the Windows 10 Start menu linked in the description below.