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GeneralRe: Microsoft explains why it killed the Windows 8 Start button Pin
Marc Clifton3-Jul-12 7:05
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Yakko W.4-Jul-12 10:43
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Right-click on an empty area of the start screen, and click the "All Items" button that appears at the bottom. I discovered that on accident when I was looking for the same thing.

Which is a major part of the problem I've had with Win8. In their quest for "simplifying" the screen, they've eliminated so many visual cues as to where things are, that I've found many of them "by accident". There's an excellent video floating around on YouTube where a guy showed his father Windows 8 (Customer Preview), and he spent 20 minutes looking for the "Start Button". There's nothing on the screen that tells you that you need to move your mouse to the lower left to bring up the start menu. There's nothing telling you that you need to right-click on an empty area of a web page to bring up the Metro version of Internet Explorer's tab menu, address bar, etc. There's nothing showing you that you *can* snap windows side-by-side, let alone *how*.

Besides that, I may be comfortable experimenting with the system to see what it can do and how it works, but (1) I'd rather spend my time *doing* instead of trying to figure out *how* to do, and (2) my mother certainly won't be, and will be very confused as to how to do things (even if they have a "tutorial" when the OS first starts, do you think anyone is going to remember everything it has to teach?).
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