Share your Start Menu pages on Wincustomize
Start11 v3 introduces new ways to share your Start layouts
Wednesday, November 4, 2026 by bdsams | Discussion: WinCustomize News
For as long as WinCustomize has been around, the best part of the site has never really been the files, it's the community. Somebody posts a desktop, someone else asks how they did the taskbar, and a week later there are five versions of it in the gallery. That back and forth is a big part of why this place has lasted 25 years.
With Start11 v3, which is out today, we wanted to bring some of that into the Start menu itself. The big addition this time is widgets. There are more than 20 of them, including calendars, clocks, notes and system monitoring. Once you start putting widgets on a Start menu page, you end up building something pretty personal (and something you'll spend way too long tweaking). It seemed like a waste for all that work to live on one PC.
So Start11 v3 lets you share your Start menu pages and browse pages other people have made, right from inside the app. If you go to Start menu, then Pages, then Add a page, you'll see an Online library below your own pages. You can add any page you like from there without having to go find a file and import it.
Those pages also have their own section here on WinCustomize, so you can browse them on the web too. Keep in mind that we are only exporting the configuration of the pages, and not the apps or everything associated with the Start menu configuration.
We intend to expand the functionality of these exports but need to balance the ability to share configurations with importing them safely too. Some of these pages can get complex with applications and layouts, so the first steps are make the base contents shareable and build from there based on your feedback.
While you're in there, Start11 v3 also lets you browse thousands of Start button designs from inside the app, which is a nice way to finish off a new layout. Start11 v3 is available now for $8 during the release preview (it's normally $10), and it's included in Object Desktop if you already have that.
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