According to the news, Microsoft Windows 8.1 will resume the start button, but some users are not too happy, because clicking the button will only lead the user to jump to the Metro style start screen interface. Therefore, the start button may be restored in the Win8.1 version, but the previous Windows Start menu may be gone forever.
Xiao Bian emphasized in the previous article that the start menu in Win8 has completely replaced the Metro start interface. In the past, Windows started the menu, and in Windows 8, its form is the start screen, so users need to change their consciousness to be truly familiar with the essence of Win8.
Learn to switch between two screens
How to skillfully use the start screen is a quick way to adapt to Win8 and master Win8. Remember, mastering the Win8 system, as long as you master two screens, one of them is the traditional desktop, and the other is the Metro start screen (the function of the traditional start menu).
If the user starts the screen at Metro, click on the “Desktop” icon (as shown below) to enter the traditional desktop.
Entering the traditional desktop
If you are already on the traditional desktop screen and want to switch to the Metro start screen, there are three ways:
Method one. Move the mouse to the lower left corner of the screen
The user simply moves the mouse to the lower left corner of the screen, and the thumbnail of the start screen will pop up. Click to switch to the Metro start screen.
Switch to the start screen
Method 2: Move the mouse to the lower right corner
In the traditional desktop environment, the user simply moves the mouse to the lower right corner of the screen, pops up the charmbar, and then clicks “Start” The icon will jump to the start screen.
Charmbar sidebar menu
Method 3: Click on the keyboard "Win” key
This is also the simplest and most direct method, recommend users to use this shortcut to control the start screen and tradition Switching to the desktop.
Learn to use the search function of the start screen
Users press the “Win+Q” shortcut key to enter the Metro style search interface, similar to the search of the previous start menu, but the interface is more beautiful and more powerful. .
Search is different from the previous Windows start menu, using the search classification mechanism, the user to search for content, roughly divided into three categories: & ldquo; application & rdquo; & ldquo; set & rdquo;, & ldquo; file & rdquo;. The global search is based on the keywords included in the name of the search content. The application class mainly searches for applications in the computer, sets the setting options of the class search system, and the file class represents various files mainly located in the E disk user folder.
Search for the app, type the first letter or the Chinese keyword, for example, type “W”, there will be an installed program such as "Word 2011" "Windows Voice Recognition"
Some programs have a Chinese name, but the program name includes the "W” letters, so it will also appear, such as “app store”.
In the search results.
fast.
Uninstall & rdquo;, & ldquo; reduce or enlarge & rdquo;.
Metro Program Operation Options
Right-click on the System Preferences >;Game”Metro icon and select “Zoom in ”.
Manage the Metro program with the start screen
Users will find that the icon for the Metro program <;game> is changed from a small square to a rectangle.
Zoom in to rectangle
Zoom in and out seems to be exclusive to the Metro program's "welfare", but it's okay, other common applications have 6 operating options “ fixed or unpinned from the start screen ”,“Unfix from the taskbar">"Uninstall","Open a new window",“Run as administrator",“Open file location”.
Using the start screen to manage common programs, in addition to the above options, on the start screen, the normal program can also arrange the layout as freely as the Metro program. For example, Xiaobian moves the QQ icon to the first line. The first position.
Managing common programs with the start screen