This is the new way you can customize the Windows 10 Start menu with the Sun Valley version

One of the possibilities offered by Windows 10 is to customize the Start menu, a timeless classic in Microsoft's operating system. But although it has received several changes, something that until now we could not do is change it at will or not at least without affecting other elements

That's why Microsoft is already testing in the 20H2 branch (aka Sun Valley) the ability to resize the Start menu without the Windows search interface is also affectedA change already present in released preview builds.

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Until now, it's been easy to resize the Start menu. Just place the cursor on the border and drag it. The result is more space for applications but at the cost of increasing the dimensions of the Windows search interface

Now, with the previous versions that Microsoft distributes from the 20H2 branch, a change is being deployed. You can change the size of the menu but without affecting the size of the search interface.

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In some cases, if we decrease the height of the Start menu, some interface elements may not appear on the screen, which which can prevent us from having access to some features like Bing screenshot search or Switch to Microsoft Edge banners."

With the change introduced, the Start menu and the search menu become separate and both can play with the resize without it one interferes with the other. An advantage that could come to other versions of Windows, since it is a change that can be activated on the server side.

An improvement that adds to another novelty that they are already testing in the Canary version of Edge and that allows to improve searches in Windows thanks to the integration with Edge since Allows sharing of browser data via Search services in Windows 10,

Via | Windows Latest