The Windows 10 operating system is the most used in the world, with hundreds of millions of users. Microsoft recently modified the design of the start menu of its operating system. This menu changes dramatically in appearance and new items are added. If you are interested, you can now activate the new Windows 10 menu in a fairly simple way.
To activate the new menu, you must perform a few simple steps and have Windows 10 properly updated. The requirements to activate the new Windows 10 start menu are as follows:
- Have the Windows 2004 version installed (the big May update)
- You need the cumulative KB45688331
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How do I know what version of Windows 10 I have?
If you are not sure what version of the operating system you have, the process of finding out is very simple:
- You go to the start menu and click on the Windows logo
- When it opens you give the Configuration gear wheel
- The Windows 10 control panel will open and here we access 'System'
- Within the system, in the column on the left, under everything we will see 'About', we must click on this.
- Now we look in the right column and look for 'Windows Specifications'. Here it tells us what edition we have (license), the version, when it was installed and what is the latest version of the operating system
You can see that it is a really simple process
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After reviewing it, if we meet the requirements, we can go through the activation process. In case we go to the 'Control Panel' and we go to the option of 'Updates' and there we look for updates in a simple way.
Once we fulfill it, we will carry out the following process:
- Open notepad and create a document called 'start menu.txt'. If you can't find it, type it in the Windows 10 search engine
- Inside the document we must paste the following text:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ FeatureManagement \ Overrides \ 0 \ 2093230218] "EnabledState" = dword: 00000002 "EnabledStateOptions" = dword: 00000000
- Now we change the document extension from '.txt' to '.reg'
- We save all the changes made
- Once this, we must double click on the document
- We accept all the changes indicated by the screen that appears
- We restart the computer
Conclusion
Activating the new Windows 10 menu is a fairly simple process and does not require great technical knowledge. It is simply a few steps that anyone can do. Don't worry, your computer will not suffer any damage from doing this process, it is something very simple.
