Right clicking on these apps will again show a drop down menu but this time click 'Unpin from Start' at the top, as shown in Figure D.įinally, to remove suggested apps from the sidebar in the Start menu, you'll need to make a change in Settings. Next to get rid of those promoted apps that link to the Windows Store. Right clicking on these tiles will show a drop down menu with an 'Uninstall' option at the bottom, as shown in Figure C. Let's start by removing promoted apps that are installed on your machine. Figure A shows the layout of promoted app tiles before the Anniversary Update changes and Figure B shows after.ĭepending on which version of Windows you're running, you'll want to remove each of the tiles highlighted in Figure A or B. In the slides below, you can see which tiles you will want to remove to get rid of promoted apps. If you don't want to do that, here's how to manually remove each tile from the Start menu. The software will allow you to customize the look and feel of Windows, including changing the Start menu to resemble that of Windows 7 or earlier Microsoft operating systems. One option for removing these tiles is to install Classic Shell. If you don't want adverts appearing in your Windows 10 Start menu, here's how to remove them.
Microsoft has been contacted for clarification. It remains unclear whether all versions of Windows 10 will eventually see the Start menu changes or just new installs. Microsoft discussed the changes at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in late April, as part of a briefing on new features in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, due out this summer. To make room, the number of tiles linking to apps installed on the machine will decrease, from 17 to 12. In future versions of Windows 10, the number of 'promoted apps' tiles in the Start menu will rise to 10. Three of these tiles are links to apps on the Windows Store and two are Windows Store apps that Windows 10 has previously automatically installed on the machine. Windows 10's Start menu currently has five tiles that display 'promoted apps', which are Windows Store apps the user hasn't installed on their PC.
Microsoft is to double the number of adverts for apps that appear in Windows 10's Start menu.
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