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If you don't want any tiles there, then just shrink the start area space so it doesn't appear. Only the menu would appear.
It wont allow me to shrink it. That search box. Seems to be blocking it from getting smaller.
Yeah it works. Just hover the mouse pointer anywhere along the RIGHT edge of the start screen blackness and the mouse pointer should change to an arrow pointing both left & right.
Then hold down the left mouse button and drag the edge to the left (this will shrink it down)