Shrink Start Menu

[_kR15n]

As the title says, is there a way to shrink the Start menu in the picture provided to be just a bar on the side of the screen?

[Catsrules]

Not that I know of. The smallest I can make it is if I unpin all of the items I can move my mouse to the edge of the start menu and you get an option to shrink the start menu by clicking and draging the edge to be smaller. But it stops right where the program menu is.

 

 

 

[NZgamer]

What you need to do is unpin all live tiles, and then you can drag the edge of the menu to your liking

[_kR15n]

Just now, NZgamer said:

What you need to do is unpin all live tiles, and then you can drag the edge of the menu to your liking

I think you missed the point. On the provided picture you can clearly see that all tiles have already been unpinned and I am asking if I can shrink it to show only the start menu sidebar.

[NZgamer]

1 minute ago, _kR15n said:

I think you missed the point. On the provided picture you can clearly see that all tiles have already been unpinned and I am asking if I can shrink it to show only the start menu sidebar.

Could you please be more clear? What do you mean by sidebar?

[_kR15n]

1 minute ago, _kR15n said:

I think you missed the point. On the provided picture you can clearly see that all tiles have already been unpinned and I am asking if I can shrink it to show only the start menu sidebar.

Like this:

[NZgamer]

8 minutes ago, _kR15n said:

Like this:

oh sorry can't help you there. Might need a 3rd party program.

[The Torrent]

Is a little grey square really that much of an issue?

[_kR15n]

1 minute ago, The Torrent said:

Is a little grey square really that much of an issue?

I mean….

Not really, but if it could be removed would it not look cleaner and nicer?

[The Torrent]

3 minutes ago, _kR15n said:

I mean….

Not really, but if it could be removed would it not look cleaner and nicer?

How often do you really click the start menu? And even when you do it’s like for half a second.

[_kR15n]

3 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

How often do you really click the start menu? And even when you do it’s like for half a second.

It is true that I only use it to shut down my computer (I even sometimes use Alt+F4 because I cannot be bothered to click twice with my mouse) and to search for files and folders which I do not remember the location of but it still haunts my mind that there is a blank area of my start menu which cannot be removed .

[The Torrent]

20 minutes ago, _kR15n said:

It is true that I only use it to shut down my computer (I even sometimes use Alt+F4 because I cannot be bothered to click twice with my mouse) and to search for files and folders which I do not remember the location of but it still haunts my mind that there is a blank area of my start menu which cannot be removed .

why not just put the pins back there?

[_kR15n]

2 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

why not just put the pins back there?

Dont have anything useful to pin.

[The Torrent]

4 minutes ago, _kR15n said:

Dont have anything useful to pin.

Just stick random crap it’ll look less ugly than plain grey bar

 

 

[_kR15n]

2 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

Just stick random crap it’ll look less ugly than plain grey bar

 

 

This post is about trying to get rid of the random crap and the plain grey bar 

[The Torrent]

6 minutes ago, _kR15n said:

This post is about trying to get rid of the random crap and the plain grey bar 

Yea but u can’t remove plain grey bar so best settle for something

[_kR15n]

4 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

Yea but u can’t remove plain grey bar so best settle for something

Are you 100% sure that there is nothing that can be done?

[_kR15n]

26 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

Yea but u can’t remove plain grey bar so best settle for something

I have used your advice as I found out that there is probably nothing I can do about the grey area so I just moved all icons from the taskbar to the start menu and it looks like this: