Hide Category view in the Start Menu

Supported OS tags: Windows11

This policy setting allows you to hide the category view in the Start Menu. If you enable this policy setting, the Start Menu will no longer show the category view as an option and will default to grid view.

This policy has no additional user input fields.

• User
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  At least Windows 2000
• User
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  Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000
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  Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
• User
  Add the Run command to the Start Menu

  Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Vista
• User
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  Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
• User
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  At least Windows 2000
• User
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  Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows 10