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Chapter 4: Working with Apps
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Note: When you update an app, it’s not updated for
every account holder on the computer. Each person
has to update it for him- or herself. That holds true
for apps that came preinstalled on your computer, as
well as ones you’ve chosen to install afterward.
Finding Currently Running
Start Screen Apps
By nature, Start screen apps fill the screen.
Switch to another app, and it fills the screen,
shoving away the previous app. Because the
Start screen shows only one app at a time, your
other running apps remain hidden beneath an
invisibility cloak.
When you switch to the desktop, you’re in yet
another world, away from the land of apps. How do
you return to an app you just used?
To solve that problem, Windows 8 can reveal a list of
your recently used apps, complete with thumbnail
photos, as shown in Figure 4-4. The list conveniently
includes your desktop, letting you shuffle easily
between apps and the desktop.
The thumbnail-filled strip pops up along the screen’s
left edge, and it’s available whether you’re on the
Start screen or the desktop.
To see that list of your recently used apps (and to
close unwanted apps, if desired), employ any of
these tricks:
✓ Mouse: Point in the screen’s top-right corner;
when a thumbnail of your last-used app
appears, slide the mouse down the screen: The
list of your most recently used apps sticks to
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