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Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system introduced an updated Start menu known as the "Start screen", which uses a full-screen design consisting of tiles to represent applications. This replaced the Windows desktop as the primary interface of the operating system.
The Start menu (called Start screen in Windows 8, 8.1 and Server 2012) is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, providing a means of opening programs and performing other functions in the Windows shell.
Classic Shell is a computer program for Microsoft Windows that provides user interface elements intended to restore familiar features from past versions of Windows. [4] It focuses on the Start menu, File Explorer and Internet Explorer — three major components of the Windows shell although it also does some minor tweaks for the Windows Taskbar.
Invoking special folders: Until Windows 8, the Start menu was a mean of invoking special folders such as Computer, Network, Control Panel, etc. In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, the only special folder that can be invoked from the Start screen is the desktop. Windows 10 restored this functionality.
Pinning an AOL app to your Windows 10 Start menu is a simple task, follow the steps below. Open the Windows Start menu and click All apps. Locate the AOL app in the list. Right-click on the app name. A small menu will appear. Click Pin to Start to add this app to your Start menu.
There is no ambiguity here. As you have quoted "Except for a link to an official page of the article's subject" - the article's subject is "List of Start Menu replacements for Windows 8" so if there is an official list of "List of Start Menu replacements for Windows 8" then that can be linked. The individual items on the list are not the ...
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At the 2014 Build conference, during April, Microsoft's Terry Myerson unveiled further user interface changes for Windows 8.1, including the ability to run Metro-style apps inside desktop windows, and a revised Start menu, which creates a compromise between the Start menu design used by Windows 7 and the Start screen, by combining the ...