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Old Nov 1, 2012 | 6:37 am
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Originally Posted by bullroot
When you boot a PC, note that the desktop icon is on the top right of the screen. This is where the keyboard has focus when you log in.

So, press enter and you go right to desktop. Or the windows key does the same. You can skip the new start screen and go right to your old ui in less than a second.
Yup I've grasped that it's just that clients that I've shown this to when they've been looking to upgrade (mostly from XP) have just wanted to know how to launch their applications from the desktop, not having anything there to click has ranged from "daft" to something that the expletive deletion system on FT will just remove if I post it.

Originally Posted by bullroot
press windows key (or search charm) and type name of the application. hit enter. pow.

Same as how most people start apps in w7 except the start menu is now the start screen. once you've done it a few times it's pretty intuitive.
Ah but you're assuming
a) That most people are coming from Windows 7 which a lot of people aren't.
b) That most people started applications that way in Windows 7 which in my experience they don't
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