Technical information

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition

If you still can’t find your program on the admit-

tedly crowded Start screen, follow these tips for

other ways to open an app or program:

✓ While you view the Start screen, begin typing

the missing program’s name. As you type the

first letter, the Start screen clears, presenting a

list of names beginning with that letter. Type a

second or third letter, and the list of matches

shrinks accordingly. When you spot the app or

program you want, open it with a double-click

(or a touch on a touchscreen.)

✓ Open File Explorer from the Start screen,

choose Documents from the Navigation Pane

along the window’s left edge, and double-click

the file you want to open. The correct program

automatically opens with that file in tow.

✓ Double-click a shortcut to the program.

Shortcuts, which often sit on your desktop, are

handy, disposable buttons for launching files

and folders.

✓ While you’re on the desktop, you may spot the

program’s icon on the taskbar — a handy strip

of icons lazily lounging along your desktop’s

bottom edge. If so, click the taskbar icon, and

the program leaps into action.

✓ Right-click on the Windows desktop, choose

New, and select the type of document you want

to create. Windows 8 loads the right program

for the job.

Windows offers other ways to open a program, but

the preceding methods usually get the job done.

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