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Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition
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the mysterious doodad, and Windows pops up a
little box explaining what that thing is or does.
Right-click the object, and the ever-helpful
Windows 8 usually tosses up a menu listing
nearly everything you can do with that particu-
lar object. This trick works on most icons and
buttons found on your desktop and its
programs.
✓ All the icons on your desktop may suddenly dis-
appear, leaving it completely empty. Chances
are good that Windows 8 hid them in a mis-
guided attempt to be helpful. To bring your
work back to life, right-click your empty desktop
and choose View from the pop-up menu. Finally,
make sure the Show Desktop Icons menu option
has a check mark so everything stays visible.
Summoning the Start screen
and open apps
The Start button no longer lives in the desktop’s
bottom-left corner. Now, simply pointing and
clicking at that little corner of desktop real
estate fetches the new Windows 8 Start screen.
When the Start screen appears, you click the
app or program you’d like to run. To visit
the Start screen from the desktop, as well
as to revisit any recently opened apps, follow
these steps:
1. Point the mouse cursor at your screen’s bottom-
left corner.
A tiny thumbnail-sized Start screen icon rears its
head, shown in the bottom-left corner of Figure 2-2.
Click it to return to the Start screen.
Or, if you want to return to any currently running
apps, move to the next step.
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