Pinning a Program to the Start Screen
One of the significant conveniences of the Start screen is that the apps you see can all be opened with just a single click or tap. Contrast this with the relatively laborious process required to launch just about any other program on your PC: right-click the Start screen (or swipe up from the bottom edge on a tablet), click All Apps, scroll through the Apps screen to find the program you want to run, and then click it. Alternatively, you can start typing the name of the program and then click it when it appears in the Apps search screen.
Either way, this seems like a great deal of effort to launch a program, and it’s that much worse for a program you use often. You can avoid all that extra work and make ...
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