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Windows 10 For Dummies
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Windows 10 For Dummies

by Andy Rathbone
August 2015
Beginner
432 pages
10h 31m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 2

Starting with the Start Menu

In This Chapter

arrow Starting Windows

arrow Signing in to Windows

arrow Understanding the Start menu

arrow Switching among apps

arrow Seeing all your apps and programs

arrow Customizing the Start menu

arrow Turning off your computer

First, the big news: Windows 10 brings back the Start menu! Now the bad news: The new Start menu doesn’t look much like the Start menu in your earlier version of Windows.

Although it’s different, the new Start menu works almost identically to the Start menu of old: Click the Start button in the screen’s bottom-left corner, and the Start menu rises, listing all the apps and programs installed on your PC. Click an app or program, and it leaps to the screen, ready for action.

In this chapter, I explain how to figure out this odd, shape-shifting Start menu. ...

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