How To Remove Recommended From Windows 11 Start Menu

The Windows 11 First card displays "Recommended" items past default. But you lot can hide some or all files, folders, and apps information technology shows. Here'south how.

Windows 11 is getting a fresh coat of pigment and some different user experiences. A notable change is to the Start menu. It is centered on the bottom of the screen (although you can motility information technology to the left). And by default, information technology displayed pinned items and recently opened files, folders, apps, and other items. If yous want to hide items in the "Recommended" section, you tin. Here's how.

Recommended Section on the Windows eleven Start Card

Click the Get-go button, and yous will see pinned items at the height of the menu. Then, beneath that is the "Recommended" department.

If you click the More push button at the upper-right corner of the "Recommended" list, you will get a list of more recently used documents and other items. While information technology is convenient and helpful for some people, other users might desire to hide the content.

Remove or Hide Recommended Items on Windows 11 Start Carte du jour

To remove or hibernate items from the "Recommended" department, click Start and click the Settings button. Alternately, you lot can apply the keyboard shortcut Windows central + I to open Settings directly.

Once the Settings folio is open, go to Personalization > Start.

On the following folio, get down the list and plough off the items you don't want to prove under the "Recommended" section on the Windows 11 Kickoff menu. Y'all can plough off "Show recently added apps," "Show about used apps," and "Prove recently opened items in First, Jump Lists, and File Explorer."

Note: The "Folders" pick will let you choose which folders appear side by side to the Power button at the lesser. For more on that, read our article on adding or removing calculation or removing folders on the Windows 11 Kickoff menu.

When you turn an item on or off, the change volition take identify immediately. You tin turn items off one at a fourth dimension and see the results. Or turn them all off and run across if yous like information technology. In the instance below, I turned everything off except for the Folders next to the Power push.

If you want to turn select items back on, click the "Start settings" link nether the "recommended" department. That will bring you direct to the Personalization > Starting time department, where you tin toggle items on or off.

And for more on managing the Offset carte du jour on the new Bone, check out our articles on how to show or hide "Most Used" apps on the Windows 11 Start menu. Or take a look at irresolute the Start bill of fare and taskbar colors.