How to Hide the New Category Layout in Windows 11 Start Menu
Windows 11 Start Menu Category layout can make the new Start menu look more cluttered than before. In this video, I’ll show you how to hide the All apps Category section using one simple Registry change.
If your Windows 11 Start menu suddenly changed and now shows apps grouped into categories, this tutorial will show you how to remove that new Category layout from the Start menu.
This method uses Registry Editor and the NoStartMenuMorePrograms value to hide the All apps section where the Category layout appears. It does not switch Category view back to Grid view — it hides that section completely.
Registry path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
Key name:
Explorer
DWORD value name:
NoStartMenuMorePrograms
To hide the All apps Category section:
Set NoStartMenuMorePrograms to:
1
To undo the change:
Delete NoStartMenuMorePrograms
Or set its value data back to:
0
Note:
If the change does not appear right away, restart your computer once and check the Start menu again.
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⚠️ Important update:
After applying the Registry change in this video, if you have many pinned apps and only two rows appear in the Start menu, open Command Prompt as administrator, copy and paste this command, and press Enter:
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Start" /v ShowAllPinsList /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f && taskkill /f /im explorer.exe && start explorer.exe
This shows all pinned apps by default. If the Start menu does not refresh right away, restart your computer once.
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