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Chapter 1: The New Start Screen
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Figuring Out the New Start
Screen in Windows 8
The new Start screen in Windows 8 whisks you
away from the traditional Windows desktop and
drops you into a foreign land with no helpful
translator at your side. That’s right: Windows 8
no longer has a Start button or a Start menu.
Instead, the new Windows 8 Start screen, shown in
Figure 1-7, appears whenever you turn on your com-
puter. Whereas older Windows versions had a small
Start menu on a desktop, the Windows 8 Start screen
fills the entire screen with large tiles stretching
beyond the right edge. Each tile represents a program
installed on your computer.
Figure 1-7: Click a Start screen tile to start a program.
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