Windows 10: Start menu - how to return to 'All Apps'?

Windows 11 Pro 23H2If I open the Start menu and type anything the page goes into search mode. If the item I want isn't found, how do I get back to the 'All Apps' listing that was an option on the opening screen?"All" and "Apps" still refers to search. Deleting my search text or selecting the left arrow still leaves me in search mode Recent and Quick Search. I just want to get back to the page that first pops up when I select Start: the page that has the 'All Apps' button under the search textbox. Does anyone know how to do this?

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Hi, @Brink:

My caffeine titer is low, so I must be missing some blatant, basic step to add a shortcut to my account's All Apps list in the Start menu (Option1).
The new process both for creating shortcuts and for adding/removing items to the Win10 start menu has me flummoxed.
Your tutorials are always "topnotch", so this must be a cockpit error on my part.

>I would like to follow the suggestion on page 1 of the wushowhide.diagcab tutorial to add a shortcut in All Apps for my account.

I have d/l the wushowhide.diagcab and saved it to my downloads folder.
I have done Step 1 on Page 1 of THIS tutorial to navigate to the Start Menu Programs folder.
But HOW do I actually complete Step 3 to create a shortcut and then add it to the Start Menu "All Apps"??

I think I need to first somehow create a shortcut for the .cab file and then add it to All Apps in the start menu???

Please advise.

Thanks!
MM

P.S. I have been postponing the probably inevitable installation of Class Shell.
I would rather not have to install a 3rd-party program to be able to perform basic Windows tasks.
But this new workflow in Win10 for a basic functionality might force me to do it.
Sigh.