Love it or hate it, Windows 8's most significant user interface change is the Start screen and its accompanying Metro environment. It replaced the classic Start menu and is the first thing you'll see ...

Whether you need to open apps, view recently used files, or shut down your PC, the Start menu is an essential part of the Windows experience. But if yours has disappeared, there is no need to panic, ...

The Start button in Windows has changed in form over the years, but we could always count on it to function as a convenient launch pad for all our programs, applications, and tasks. So what does ...

I know there are still doubters out there, but from everything I've heard, the rumored Start Button is going to be part of Windows Blue, a k a Windows 8.1. I've heard from one of my good sources that ...

Because Microsoft thinks it knows what’s best for users and apparently wants to confuse the living daylights out of them, Windows 8 has no Start button. I’ll just say that again so it sinks in: ...

The two most disliked aspects of Windows 8 – the lack of a Start button and inability to boot to desktop – may finally be addressed in Windows 8.1, aka “Windows Blue,” an update to the maligned due ...

Microsoft this week gave customers a bare-bones peek at the future of Windows, saying that the next iteration after Windows 8.1 Update will restore a Start menu and let users run “Metro” apps on the ...

Windows 7, I presume? No, Windows 8 running Win8 StartButton. I’m trying to like Windows 8, really I am, but two aspects feel like a slap in the face: Forcing me to boot into the Start screen when ...