How to bring back the old resizable Start Menu

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  1. Posts : 1,151
    Windows 10 Pro
       #1

    How to bring back the old resizable Start Menu


    See tutorial: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html


    1. ​Right click on the Start Button and select "Run"
    2. Type "regedit"
    3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Explorer>Advance
    4. Create a new DWORD (32-bit) value, call it "EnableXamlStartMenu" without the quote marks
    5. Restart Explorer


    just done it on mine as i perfer that start menu to new one
    Last edited by Brink; 24 Jan 2015 at 11:00. Reason: added tutorial link
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  2. Posts : 803
    10 Pro Preview x64
       #2

    Thanks Dave but it was working for me anyway. I saw Jimbo had a problem with it and I assumed it was VMware.

    Can I ask - are you running in a VM or not?
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  3. Posts : 1,151
    Windows 10 Pro
    Thread Starter
       #3

    adamf said:
    Thanks Dave but it was working for me anyway. I saw Jimbo had a problem with it and I assumed it was VMware.

    Can I ask - are you running in a VM or not?
    no i got it on a spare hard drive not VM perfer to run it on real hardware rather that vm to test everything works
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  4. Posts : 7,724
    3-Win-7Prox64 3-Win10Prox64 3-LinuxMint20.2
       #4

    Hi interesting,
    Could you post a screen shot of the results and try to stack a few small icons vertically

    That is one thing I like to do stack vertically in a single row but now the width is twice as wide as it was prior but the old right column would not stack a single row
    Thanks for sharing :)
    Cheers.
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  5. Posts : 16,623
    Windows 11 Pro X64
       #5

    Here is a ss, I wondered about it to. It works as you can see in properties that customize is no longer shaded out

    How to bring back the old resizable Start Menu-start.png
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  6. Posts : 1,151
    Windows 10 Pro
    Thread Starter
       #6

    How to bring back the old resizable Start Menu-screenshot2_zps514ed016.png

    as you can see it works fine :)
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  7. Posts : 22,740
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #7

    Dave44 said:
    How to bring back the old resizable Start Menu-screenshot2_zps514ed016.png

    as you can see it works fine :)
    The only thing is that you can make fully customize your start menu if you don't live in the US.

    How to bring back the old resizable Start Menu-untitled.jpg

    Mine;
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  8. Posts : 11,247
    Windows / Linux : Arch Linux
       #8

    Hi there
    Doesn't work for me
    @Dave44

    Do you have to set the Dword to 1. Doesn't seem to make any difference for me.

    I suspect that on a laptop with average resolution 1366 X 768 the setting might not work anyway.

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  9. Posts : 1,151
    Windows 10 Pro
    Thread Starter
       #9

    jimbo45 said:
    Hi there
    Doesn't work for me

    Cheers
    jimbo
    hi did you drop the quote makes when renamed folder in registry

    see Bunnys didn't work either as he still on new start menu
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  10. Posts : 486
    Windows 10x64 17713
       #10

    Thanks for that workaround.
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