Security News > 2021 > July > Microsoft removes Window 11 hack to enable Windows 10 Start Menu
Microsoft removed a registry hack in the latest preview build that allowed Windows 11 users to revert to the "Classic" Windows 10 Start Menu.
When the Windows 11 preview build was leaked in June, one of the most significant and most controversial changes was a new floating Start Menu centered in the middle of the Taskbar.
For those who did not like the new Start Menu, it was possible to use a Registry hack to revert to a "Classic Mode," the Windows 10 Start Menu.
To switch to the Windows 10 Start Menu, users could create the 'Start ShowClassicMode' value and set it to 1 under the HKEY CURRENT USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced registry key.
Once you created the registry value and restarted the Windows Explorer process, the old Start Menu would be available again, as shown below.
After installing the new cumulative update, users could no longer use the Registry hack to bring back the old Start Menu.
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