The desktop in the Windows 8 beta offers no Start button and a few shortcuts. How can you easily populate it with your favorite programs? Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

Adding a Chrome shortcut to the Windows 8.1 desktop enables you to bypass the Start screen and launch Chrome directly from the desktop. Microsoft makes creating such shortcuts effortless in File ...

In previous versions of Windows, the Start Menu was a fast way to find and launch programs . Microsoft killed it in Window 8, but if you're a fan of it, it's easy to get it back. One of the worst ...

If the multiple clicks it takes to get to the Shutdown button on your Windows 8 desktop is a few too many, there is a way to add a button that lets you shutdown your device in one click. You can ...

You’ve finally made the leap to Windows 8 (or, more probably, Windows 8.1), and a pretty big leap it was. Everything looks different. Everything acts differently. Even a simple task like shutting down ...