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Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition
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No matter which item you’ve chosen, it fills the
screen, ready to inform you, entertain you, or maybe
even do both. I explain the Start screen’s built-in apps
later in this chapter. If you feel like digging in, you can
begin downloading and installing your own by click-
ing the Start screen’s Store tile. (I explain how to
download apps in Chapter 4.)
Viewing or closing your open apps
Start screen apps, by nature, consume the entire
screen, with no visible menus. That makes it difficult
not only to control them but also to switch among
them. The same holds true when you’re working in
the separate world of the traditional Windows
desktop.
How do you switch between recently used programs
and apps? Windows 8 makes it fairly easy to switch
between them by following these steps:
1. Point the mouse pointer at the screen’s bottom-
most-left corner.
A thumbnail of your last used app appears. You
can click to bring that app to the screen. Or, if
you want to revisit other apps running in the
background, move to the next step.
2. When the desktop icon appears, raise your
mouse pointer along the screen’s left edge.
As you move it up the screen, shown in Figure 1-8,
a bar appears alongside the screen’s left edge,
showing thumbnails of your open apps.
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