With Windows Blue, aka Windows 8.1, Microsoft is reintroducing a Start button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work.

With Windows Blue, a k a Windows 8.1, Microsoft is re-introducing a Start Button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work.

Now that Microsoft is bringing back the Start button to Windows 8.1, a new tool called “StartIsGone” will allow users to take it away again. Seriously. “After release of Windows 8.1 I found ...

A lot of people complained and Microsoft listened. The company brought the Start button back in Windows 8.1. But the button doesn't have to stay there in your taskbar— there are hacks to re-hide it.

According to the latest leaked build of Windows 8.1 (Blue), the Start button and menu will make their triumphant return -- but they won't look or work like the Windows 7 Start menu. With Windows ...

I click on the Start button, open the folder for Adobe Suite, and select the shortcut for Photoshop. Clean, simple, and quick. Windows 8: I'm working in the desktop and want to launch Adobe Photoshop.

Although the traditional Start menu and Start button has been removed from Windows 8, the majority of functionality remains in the new operating system. A hot corner has replaced the Start button ...