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Chapter 1: The New Start Screen
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✓ See the little bar along the Start screen’s bottom
edge? That’s a scroll bar. Drag the scroll bar’s
light-colored portion to the left or right: As you
move that portion, the Start screen moves along
with it, letting you see items living off the
screen’s right edge.
✓ On a touchscreen, navigate the Start screen with
your finger: Pretend the Start screen is a piece of
paper lying on a table. As you move your finger,
the Start screen moves along with it.
✓ On a keyboard, press the right- or left-arrow
keys, and the Start screen’s tiles move accord-
ingly. Press the keyboard’s End key to move to
the end of the Start screen; the Home key moves
you back to the Start screen’s front.
Launching a Start screen
program or app
Windows 8 stocks your Start screen with apps —
small programs for performing simple tasks. In
fact, Windows 8 now refers to all Windows pro-
grams as apps. (It even refers to your once
almighty desktop as the Desktop app.)
Each tile on the Start screen is a button for starting an
app or traditional Windows program. Click the
button, and the program or app jumps into action.
Windows 8 complicates matters, as it offers several
ways to push a button:
✓ Mouse: Point at the tile and click the left mouse
button.
✓ Keyboard: Press the arrow keys until a box sur-
rounds the desired tile. Then press the Enter key.
✓ Touchscreens: Tap the tile with your finger.
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