Personalization Add or Remove Recommended Websites on Start Menu in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove recommended websites on the Start menu for your account, specific users, or all users in Windows 11.

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

Starting with Windows 11 build 23451 (Dev), Microsoft is re-introducing websites after trying this out with Insiders last fall. One improvement Microsoft made is to recommend more useful and personal websites based on your browsing history instead of generally popular websites. Insiders can right-click on a website and choose to remove a website individually at any given time. Only some Insiders will see this experience and, if you do, please share your feedback.

Starting with Windows 11 build 22621.2359 (Release Preview) and build 22621.2361 (public), Microsoft is introducing websites to the Recommended section of the Start menu. These websites will be personalized for you and come from your browsing history. This gives you quick access to the websites that are important to you. You can remove any website URL from the Recommended section using the shortcut menu.

This feature will apply to users who have opted into sharing browsing data with Microsoft and have visited enough websites in Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome (with Continuous Import enabled).

Starting with Windows 11 build 26120.2702 (Dev) and build 22635.4655 (Beta), Microsoft is improving the filtering for recommended websites on the Start menu based on feedback from Windows Insiders so that Microsoft shows the highest quality sites based on your own browsing history. Please continue to give Microsoft feedback if you see a website recommended you feel shouldn’t be.







1 Open the Start menu . (see screenshot below)

2 Perform one of the following actions:

• Under Recommended, right click on a recommended website you want to remove, and click/tap on Remove from list.
• Click/tap on the More button under Recommended, right click on a recommended website you want to remove, and click/tap on Remove from list.

1 Open the Start menu . (see screenshot below)

2 Under Recommended, right click on a recommended website.

3 Click/tap on Stop showing recommended websites.







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 Turn On (default) or Off Show websites from your browsing history for what you want on the right side. (see screenshot below)


4 You can now close Settings if you like.

You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

The Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option Five to configure the same policy.

1 Open the all users, specific users or groups, or all users except administrators Local Group Policy Editor for how you want this policy applied.

2 Navigate to the policy location below you want in the left pane of the Local Group Policy Editor. (see screenshot below)





3 In the right pane of Start Menu and Taskbar in the Local Group Policy Editor, double click/tap on the Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4 Do step 5 (enable) or step 6 (disable) below for what you want.

This is the default setting to allow users to use Option One, Option Two, and Option Three.

This will disable and prevent users from using Option One Option Two, and Option Three.

7 You can now close the Local Group Policy Editor if you like.

You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.

This is the default setting to allow users to use Option One Option Two, and Option Three.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

This will disable and prevent users from using Option One Option Two, and Option Three.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

4 Save the REG file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded REG file to merge it.

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

7 You can now delete the downloaded REG file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink