Selecting a layout.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Preston Gralla \/ Foundry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
If you do this, all of your other open apps will display inside a brand new window. Click any of those apps to fill in spots in the remainder of the layout. The grouping is saved as a Snap Group that you may to return to when you\u2019ve opened other apps or minimized any of the group\u2019s app windows. To return to the group, hover your mouse over the taskbar icon of any of the applications in a Snap Group. You\u2019ll see thumbnails of all of the apps within the group. Click the thumbnail to return to the group.<\/p>\n
For more details about Snap Layouts and related features, see \u201cMake multitasking a Snap in your Windows PC.\u201d<\/p>\n
8. Use the key Start menu<\/h2>\n
Hidden within the bowels of Windows 11 are many powerful tools that could make you more productive, akin to Network Connections for viewing and managing your web connections; Device Manager for managing your devices; Terminal, an interface for powerful command-line tools, especially for IT pros; Task Manager for helping make your PC more efficient; and plenty of others.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s all well and good, but unless you employ them on a regular basis, it\u2019s easy to forget that they exist. And even when you do remember they exist, it\u2019s often challenging to search out them. Some are buried deep within the Settings app. Others require that you simply launch them from a command line. And yet others could also be squirrelled away in a spot you\u2019ll never find.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a trick for attending to them quickly \u2014 use what some people call the key Start menu. To launch it, right-click the Start<\/em> icon to the left of the search box on the taskbar, or press the\u00a0Windows key + X<\/strong>. A menu appears with a protracted list of those tools. Click whatever tool you desire to use and get going with it.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what some people call the \u201csecret Start menu\u201d for getting quick access to productivity-boosters.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Preston Gralla \/ Foundry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This story was originally published in July 2023 and most recently updated in April 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Selecting a layout. Preston Gralla \/ Foundry If you do this, all of your other open apps will display inside a brand new window. Click any of those apps to fill in spots in the remainder of the layout. The grouping is saved as a Snap Group that you may to return to when you\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17165,902,738,2379],"class_list":["post-314422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-computerworld","tag-productive","tag-ways","tag-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[{"message":"The permalink for this post just changed! This could result in 404 errors for your site visitors.","status":"warning","options":{"id":"0a2ae5f84bc2c0423042ed7ec22d2e40","isDismissible":true,"actions":[{"url":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/wp-admin\/admin.php?page=aioseo-redirects","label":"Add Redirect to improve SEO","class":"aioseo-redirects-slug-changed"}]},"allowedContexts":["posts"]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314425,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314422\/revisions\/314425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"screenshot](\"https:\/\/b2b-contenthub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/win11-productivity-10-hidden-start-menu.jpg?quality=50&strip=all\")