Win8 one pass: start screen PK start menu

Author: Mayon

There are many Win8 users will have some unaccustomed to the start screen after the transition from XP to Win7 or Win8, and also to the Start menu & ldquo; disappeared & rdquo; feel adapt. In fact, in Win8, the “Start Screen” is the previous “Start Menu” and is better than the “Start Menu”. This issue of "Win8 One Pass" will introduce you to the basic usage of "Start Screen".

Since Win8 has made such a change, we need to adapt to it gradually, and in the slow adaptation we will find it stronger than the previous "start menu".

Win8“Start Screen

The first is the open mode. The Start button in Win7 is located at the far left of the taskbar. Click to bring up the “Start Menu” and also You can use the “Windows key” to call out. Although Win8 does not have a start button, users can still click "left" on the left side of the taskbar to bring up the "Start Screen" and also support the "Windows Key" call. There is no difference between the two at this point.

Win7's "Start Menu",

Then, in terms of content, in the "Start Menu", users can find out that they are installed on the computer through <;All Programs" The app, which is also the most used by Win7 users to use the "Start Menu". Then let's take a look at Win8's "Start Screen", just right click and select "All Apps", we can also find all the applications on the computer.

All the programs in Win8

From the above we can see that Win8's "Start Screen" is completely inferior to the traditional "Start Menu", everyone just understand it Into a full-screen "start menu" rdquo; just fine.

But let's talk about it below, Win8's "Start Screen" is actually more practical than the "Start Menu", why do you say that? In the "Start Menu" system, the system only displays our commonly used programs on the main interface. If you want to open other programs, you should go to the "Programs" layer.

“Start Menu”Limited Program Content

But users have more freedom in the “Start Screen” and can fix any program to the main interface. And you can sort them at will, so just open “start screen” we can find all the programs we want to use.

Any program of Win8 can be fixed to the main interface

As for the original “Start menu"running" "run>; "search” functions, users can now use &ldquo ; Windows key + X & rdquo; key combination to open the function menu, there are all the function options.

Win8 function menu

The above is the whole content of this issue of "Win8 One Pass", now I believe that everyone has found that "start screen" is no worse than "start menu" When we are used to it, it will be even more convenient than the “Start Menu”.