Windows 11’s Start menu is ‘comically bad,’ but Microsoft could fix it once and for all

Windows has been at the center of controversy for months, due to a series of changes that are not well received by all users. Added to the controversial integration of Copilot in Windows 11 is the loss of performance which is noticeable even on powerful computers.

Anyone who has been using Windows 11 for a while has similar stories: They notice that their computer is slower. But it took a former Windows developer to complain publicly for Microsoft to decide to do something.

More specifically, many people have realized that Start menu is slower than ever

The Windows Start Menu Problem

A very common problem with the Start Menu is that it takes a long time to respond. If we press the Windows key and start typing the name of the program we want to use, in many cases the menu will get stuck and it won’t save everything we wroteshowing results that have nothing to do with what we want.

To be honest, the problem isn’t exactly with the Start menu, but in Windows built-in search, which needs more and more resources to offer results that do not convince everyone. Indeed, for several years, Windows search has not only searched our computer, but also the Internet.

Originally, Microsoft introduced this advanced search as a way to find anything, whether on our computer or on the web; But when someone searches for the name of a program they already have installed, it’s usually to open it and start using it, not to search the Internet for information about the program. No one is unaware that this function exists for fEncourage use of the Bing search engine and Edge browser

Former Microsoft employee Andy Young’s frustration with the Start menu reached such a point that he posted a video on X (Twitter) in which he clearly showed these problems. Despite a high-end computer, equipped with an Intel Core i9 processor and 128 GB of RAM, Windows 11 couldn’t display something as basic as the Start menu; it took a long time to load content, and when I searched for a basic application like Notepad, web page results were displayed instead of the program I wanted to use.

The post went viral, with many users reporting the same or similar issues; The original post was shared so much that Microsoft’s VP of Developer Community, Scott Hanselman, found it and responded seeking help. But the good news is that Young has already been contacted privately by Microsoft employees solve the problem. With any luck, one of the future Windows 11 updates should come with a fix that makes using the Start menu faster.