How to declutter Windows 11’s Start menu recommendations

When you use Windows, the operating system quietly takes your habits to help you rationalize your experience. It customizes the Start menu so you can reach your most quickly used apps and files. For example, he remembers the programs that you recently installed and what files you edited, then surface them in the Start menu. However, other users can easily deduce what you have done on your computer in recent hours or days.

These customizations are recorded separately in each user account. However, just a quick look at your start -up menu during a work break so that someone can see your recent activity.

Alternatively, you can configure the menu so that it does not meet your activity at all. To do this, open the Start menu and access Settings> Personalization. Then deactivate the following options:

• Show recently added applications
• Show the most used applications
• Show recommended files in the Start menu, files recently used in File Explorer and elements in the jump lists