{"id":16678,"date":"2021-10-07T13:25:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=16678"},"modified":"2021-10-07T17:43:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T16:43:15","slug":"windows-11-deactivate-recommended-in-start-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/16678\/windows-11-deactivate-recommended-in-start-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11: Deactivate Recommended in start menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to deactivate the &#8220;Recommended&#8221; section in the Windows 11 start menu.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft designed a new start menu for Windows 11. As part of that, there is a new &#8220;Recommended&#8221; section. In this section you find recently used files and new apps.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DSWEzj3hLH0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"258\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_1.png 666w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_1-300x116.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you do not want to show this in the start menu, you can deactivate the &#8220;Recommended&#8221; section in the settings.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the settings and click on &#8220;Personalization&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Start&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"522\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_2.png 840w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_2-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_2-768x477.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are two options: &#8220;Show recently added apps&#8221; and &#8220;Show recently opened items in Start, Jump Lists, and File Explorer&#8221;. You can deactivate both or one of them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_3.png 486w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_3-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once this is done the Recommended section is empty. It is still there, but not items are shown.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"223\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_4.png 661w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/empf_en_4-300x101.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to deactivate the &#8220;Recommended&#8221; section in the Windows 11 start menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1559,1600],"class_list":["post-16678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-tutorial-en","tag-windows-11-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}