Security News > 2021 > October > Windows 11 upgrades show Windows 10 Start Menu for some users

Windows 11 users report a strange upgrade experience where the operating system continues to show the Windows 10 taskbar, while everything else uses the new Windows 11 user interface.

After upgrading to Windows 11, some users have reported bizarre [1, 2] results where the new operating system becomes a hybrid of Windows 10 and Windows 11.

In a post on Reddit, a user shared a screenshot of Windows 11 showing that the new operating system continued to use the Windows 10 taskbar and the Start Menu no longer worked.

"Updated to Windows 11 using Microsoft's official update assistant. I still have the old taskbar and the start menu doesn't work at all," reads a Reddit topic.

To fix these issues, users experimented with uninstalling the latest Windows 11 cumulative update, which worked in some cases.

With numerous features missing from the Windows 11 taskbar, such as the right-click context menu and the ability to ungroup windows, one user saw this bug as a good thing.

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