Windows 11 comes with new features and a fresh look, and with a redesigned Start menu. If you don’t want to get used the new design, you can go back to the classic Start menu look like in Windows 7.

How to Restore Windows 7 Start Menu

Hit the Windows-Logo key, or click on Start and type in cmd they will open command prompt, here you paste the following command and hit enter.

winget install startallback

At the first run, the confirmation of the license terms is asked, which you accept by pressing the Y button.

If you want to go back to the Windows 11 Start menu, simply hit uninstall the tool.

winget uninstall startallback

Addendum

The Start menu is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, providing a means of opening programs and performing other functions in the Windows shell.

Start menu, and the Taskbar on which it appears, were created and named in 1993 by Daniel Oran, a program manager at Microsoft who had previously collaborated on great ape language research with the behavioral psychologist at Harvard.

The Start menu was renamed Start screen in Windows 8, before returning to its original name with Windows 10.

It has been co-opted by some operating systems (like ReactOS) and Linux desktop environments for providing a more Windows-like experience, and as such is, for example, present in KDE, with the name of Kickoff Application Launcher, and on Xfce with the name of Whisker Menu.

Traditionally, the Start menu provided a customizable nested list of programs for the user to launch, as well as a list of most recently opened documents, a way to find files and obtain assistance, and access to the system settings.

Later enhancements via Windows Desktop Update included access to special folders such as “My Documents” and “Favorites” (browser bookmarks).

Windows XP’s Start menu was expanded to encompass various My Documents folders (including My Music and My Pictures), and transplanted other items like My Computer and My Network Places from the Windows desktop. Until Windows Vista, the Start menu was constantly expanded across the screen as the user navigated through its cascading sub-menus.

show network adapter GUID and find the interface in registry

Windows assigns GUID to each network adapter, where all network adapters, such as the Ethernet adapter, wireless adapter or virtual adapters, and also the Bluetooth device have their own GUID. In case of modify parameters on a network adapter, for example, if there is no option in the network settings, as they cannot be found under the physical adapter type or with adapter name in the registry.

A relatively simple method is the following procedure. The first thing to do is to open the Services console by press the Win+R keys and type services.msc

In the open Windows Services console you start the service Wired AutoConfig if it is not already running.

The next step is to open a command prompt by pressing Win+Rcmd

Network interface adapter GUID

In the command prompt, paste the following command line with copy & paste and press the Enter key.

netsh lan show interfaces
netsh wlan show interfaces

To get the GUID of the wireless adapter, the service WLAN AutoConfig must be started.

The output appears similar to the following, the number of interfaces may vary depending on which hardware and software components the system has.

C:\>netsh lan show interfaces

There is 1 interface on the system:

    Name             : Ethernet
    Description      : Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (7) I219-V
    GUID             : 8b4f4148-7940-4d76-a0dd-00ddf89dff59
    Physical Address : 98-FA-9B-04-5B-59
    State            : Connected. Network does not support authentication.

C:\>netsh wlan show interfaces

There is 1 interface on the system:

    Name                   : WLAN
    Description            : Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165
    GUID                   : a7dd2b68-eaef-42cc-884d-716374b22520
    Physical address       : a0:51:0b:2c:ad:f8
    State                  : disconnected
    Radio status           : Hardware On
                             Software On

As here, all network and wireless adapters are displayed, in the name or description can see which network adapter has which GUID directly below the description.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters\Interfaces

Just the GUID now found, the corresponding network adapter can be found in Registry Editor.

Conclusion

In this posting you learn how to Windows assigns GUID to each network adapter, where all network adapters, such as the Ethernet adapter, wireless adapter or virtual adapters, and also the Bluetooth device have their own GUID, so you can find each interface and its GUID.