Tile Manager — Windows 11

Drag the Calculator icon on top of the Calendar icon. Boom. A folder. Name it "Productivity." Do the same for Edge + Chrome (Name it "Browsers").

In Windows 10, the Start Menu was a hybrid. Left side: Traditional app list. Right side: A customizable grid of Live Tiles. You could resize them (Small, Medium, Wide, Large). You could group them into logical categories ("Work," "Play," "Adobe Suite"). windows 11 tile manager

Furthermore, the "Recommended" section of the Start Menu is slowly becoming smarter. It now predicts which files you need based on your calendar. Drag the Calculator icon on top of the Calendar icon

Ironically, Microsoft moved the "Tile" philosophy to the window management layer. Snap Layouts (hover over the maximize button) let you arrange actual running windows into tiled configurations. This is fantastic for multitasking, but it doesn't help you launch things. Name it "Productivity