Silly Windows 8 questions

[dpnice]

Move the mouse to the bottom-left corner so the "Start" rectangle appears. Don't left-click, but right-click instead. That brings up what I think of as a Power User menu, which has all sorts of commands to quickly get to things like Command Prompt and Control Panel.

The Windows 8.1 update will add more things to this menu.

Oh! I didn't know that. I find that neat.

 

[AstareGod]

Oh! I didn't know that. I find that neat.

A lot of times I forget it's even there. But it sure does come in handy.

 

[Kulindahr]

A lot of times I forget it's even there. But it sure does come in handy.

It's almost as good as having an actual Start menu.

 

[DonQuixote]

Kuli,
Once you get the tiles where you want them, it's a Super-Sized Start menu.

My Ultrabook goes to this when I log in - so the windows key will also take me back to it.

 

[Kulindahr]

Kuli,
Once you get the tiles where you want them, it's a Super-Sized Start menu.

My Ultrabook goes to this when I log in - so the windows key will also take me back to it.

Where I want most of the tiles is in submenus, where they only show when I go there. My ideal start menu would have a half dozen items, total.

 

[DonQuixote]

I understand that, too. So, get the six you want, make them full sized (double wide) tiles and place them up front where they're easy to get to.

Then set the others up in groups that make sense to you and don't worry about it - it is what it is.