{"id":17266,"date":"2021-11-08T07:29:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T07:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=17266"},"modified":"2021-11-08T07:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T07:29:31","slug":"remove-recommended-items-on-windows-11-start-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/remove-recommended-items-on-windows-11-start-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove &#8220;Recommended&#8221; Items on Windows 11 Start Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Start Menu in Windows 11 will display a list of recently opened files in the &#8220;Recommended&#8221; section. You can right-click each recommended item and remove them from the list one by one. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you a fast way to remove and hide all &#8220;Recommended&#8221; items from the Start Menu in Windows 11.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/start-menu-recommended.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"673\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/start-menu-recommended.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/start-menu-recommended-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Remove &#8220;Recommended&#8221; Items on Windows 11 Start Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Right-click on the <strong>Start<\/strong> button in the taskbar and select <strong>Settings<\/strong>, or press the <strong>Windows<\/strong> key + <strong>I<\/strong> keyboard shortcut to open the Settings app directly.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/right-click-start-button.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/right-click-start-button.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/right-click-start-button-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Select the <strong>Personalization<\/strong> tab on the left pane. On the right side, scroll down almost to the bottom and click on <strong>Start<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/personalization.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/personalization.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/personalization-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Turn off the toggle next to &#8220;<strong>Show recently opened items in Start, Jump Lists, and File Explorer<\/strong>&#8220;.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/remove-recent-files-in-start-menu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/remove-recent-files-in-start-menu.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/remove-recent-files-in-start-menu-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>This will prevent the Recommended section from showing any recently opened files.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Start Menu in Windows 11 will display a list of recently opened files in the &#8220;Recommended&#8221; section. You can right-click each recommended item and remove them from the list one by one. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you a fast way to remove and hide all &#8220;Recommended&#8221; items from the Start Menu in Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4713],"tags":[4722,4723,4724],"class_list":["post-17266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-remove-recommended-windows-11","tag-windows-11-hide-recommended-start-menu","tag-windows-11-start-remove-recommended"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17266"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17278,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266\/revisions\/17278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}