The Charms Menu

The other piece of the Start screen chrome that you need to know about is the Charms menu, which you invoke by using one of the following techniques:

• Move the mouse pointer to the top-right or bottom-right corner of the screen, and then when the Charms icons appear, move the pointer straight down to display the full Charms menu.

• Press Windows Logo+C.

• If you’re using a touchscreen, swipe left from the right edge of the screen.

Figure 4.6 shows the Charms menu. Note, too, that Windows also displays a box showing the current date and time, the Network icon, and the Power icon.

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Figure 4.6. The Windows 8 Charms menu.

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