Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has ...

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How to find, use, and modify the Windows 10 Show Desktop button Your email has been sent As any IT pro manning a help desk can tell you, every computer user in a typical business setting interacts ...

Windows 95 launched exactly 20 years ago today, and though the operating system is long dead many of its ideas still live on. In celebration of 95's 20th birthday, we're revisiting our piece on the ...

The Start Menu in Windows 10 combines the best of both Windows worlds: The menu-based list that began in Windows 95 and the tile-based interface introduced in Windows 8. Just click or tap on the Start ...

One of my chief complaints with Windows 8 is that Microsoft forced you to boot to the new Start screen rather than giving you the option of booting to the desktop–which is where I prefer to hang my ...

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Windows 8 no longer includes the traditional Start Menu that Windows users have become associated with using. Instead they replaced it with a new interface called the Windows Start Screen that many ...

This post will show you how to enable the Start Screen in Windows 10 should you wish to. You may want to do it if you are using a touch mobile device. To do this you ...

There is no specific reason for this issue. It might have happened after updating Windows 11/10 or due to some other causes. But if you are facing such an issue, then you can try some helpful tips ...

You sit down at your computer, push the power button just like you do every day, and...nothing happens. Maybe the computer doesn't turn on at all, or it could power up but shut right back down again.