Confused on Terminology: Start Menu, Menu

[bkar]

Attached screenshot is what I see when I press the MS logo key (between Ctrl and Alt) on my Windows 10 PC.

Is that the "Start Menu?"

When I am instructed to "Type command to start searching the menu" what, exactly, are the steps I am to do?

Needless to say, I am a rank beginner, so go-slo please.

Thanks. .... bkar

[jdc2000]

That is what passes for the "Start Menu" in Windows 10. You can try customizing it to your liking, or you can install StarDock's Start10 instead.

https://www.stardock.com/products/start10/

The "search the Start Menu" function may eventually return a useful result, after it sends your search to Microsoft, but the whole idea of a Start Menu is so that you don't have to search for anything.