Personalization Add or Remove Pinned Section on Start Menu in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the Pinned apps section on the Start menu for your account in Windows 11.

The Start menu is comprised of three sections: Pinned, All apps, and Recent (aka: Recommended).

The section at the top of the Start menu is called the Pinned section. This section consists of pins arranged in a grid. The items in this section are a subset of all the apps installed on the PC; not all installed apps are included in this section by default.

The number of items shown in this section is dependent on the device’s screen size. The default view of this section displays 12 items on the smaller Start menu and 18 items on the larger Start menu.

If you have a lot of pinned apps on your Start menu, they will not all show by default on the Start menu. You can select to Show all or Show less of your pinned apps on the Start menu on demand.

Starting with Windows 11 build 26300.8553 (Experimental 25H2) for Insiders, you can turn on or off showing the Pinned section on the Start menu.

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EXAMPLE: Add (show) or remove (hide) Pinned section on Start menu








1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Personalization on the left side, and click/tap on Start on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3 Under Layout options, turn On (add) or Off (remove - default) Pinned for what you want. (see screenshot below)


4 You can now close Settings if you like.





1 Do step 2 (add) or step 3 (remove) below for what you want.

This is the default setting.

(Contents of REG file for reference)





(Contents of REG file for reference)

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 If you have Smart App Control turned on, you will need to unblock the downloaded REG file.

6 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

7 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink