• The Start menu (called Start screen in Windows 8, 8.1 and Server 2012) is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since...
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  • restore familiar features from past versions of Windows. It focuses on the Start menu, File Explorer and Internet Explorer – three major components of the Windows...
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  • readily identifiable elements consist of the desktop, the taskbar, the Start menu, the task switcher and the AutoPlay feature. On some versions of Windows...
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    graphical user interface. Its function is to toggle a menu (sometimes referred to as a hamburger menu) or navigation bar between being collapsed behind the...
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    Microsoft's Natural Keyboard in 1994. Windows 95 used it to bring up the start menu and it then became a standard key on PC keyboards. On computers running...
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  • Pokki, a replacement for Windows 8's Start Menu Pokki is designed to return the core functionality of the Start Menu, to restore features such as the ability...
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  • from the Start menu. Connect To and Network are no longer available on the Start menu by default; users can still add these links to the Start menu. Dynamically...
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  • Kelley Polar Start-1, a Russian launch vehicle Start (command), a command in Windows Start button Start menu, element in the Windows GUI Start screen (Windows)...
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  • run Microsoft Store apps inside desktop windows and a more traditional Start menu modeled after Windows 7's design by using only a portion of the screen...
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  • for any folder containing images or videos. Some functionality from the Start menu was removed and replaced with other features. Folders and groups Live...
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  • features that have been part of the product ever since, including the Start menu, the taskbar, and Windows Explorer (renamed File Explorer in Windows 8)...
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  • by elements of the canceled Windows 10X project, including a centered Start menu, a separate "Widgets" panel replacing live tiles, and new window management...
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  • Windows 10 reintroduced the start menu as seen in versions of Windows prior to 8. However, unlike these versions, the new start menu includes live tile features...
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  • tinted with the color of the desktop wallpaper. Significantly redesigned Start menu, adhering to the principles of the updated Fluent Design System. Center-aligned...
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  • a PC or server is shut down by selecting the Shutdown item from the Start menu on the desktop. Options include shutting down the system and powering...
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  • Windows XP, the Start menu shortcut to NetMeeting was removed “by design”. Users had to start conf.exe manually from the Start menu Run dialog. As of...
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  • have from eight to 255, the Windows Explorer, and the "Start" button which summons the Start menu. Accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign that generated...
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  • since June 16, 2020. New features include new theme-aware tiles in the Start Menu, new features and improvements to Microsoft Edge (such as a price comparison...
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  • Character Map in the Start Menu. On Windows 10 and Windows 11, the utility is in the Windows Accessories/Windows tools folders in the Start Menu, respectively...
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  • Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system introduced an updated Start menu known as the "Start screen", which uses a full-screen design consisting of tiles...
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  • facilitating switching between running programs. The taskbar and the associated Start Menu were created and named in 1993 by Daniel Oran, a program manager at Microsoft...
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  • Start Menu via a guillemet; when the user moves the mouse cursor over the guillemet or presses the → arrow key, the right-hand side of the Start menu...
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    copy settings. IceWM has an optional, built-in taskbar with a dynamic start menu, tasks display, system tray, network and CPU meters, mail check and configurable...
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  • oriented user interface, replacing the previous Program Manager with the Start menu, taskbar, and Windows Explorer shell. Windows 95 was a major commercial...
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  • between the Start menu designs used by Windows 8 and Windows 7. Recounting their pros and cons, Peter Bright concluded that the Start menu in Windows 8...
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  • extension by SweetLabs, Inc., that alters the start menu to a look and feel like the second generation start menu used before Windows 8. The extension also...
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  • All Programs menu in the Vista Start menu into flyout cascading menus. Subfolders inside the All Programs menu in the Vista Start menu cannot be opened...
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  • hidden and could be clicked/tapped to be shown. New Start menu: Microsoft redesigned the Start menu with a focus on productivity, with the search box now...
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  • desktop windows, and a revised Start menu, which creates a compromise between the Start menu design used by Windows 7 and the Start screen, by combining the...
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  • is being used. In Windows Server 2003 and earlier, a folder like the "Start Menu" had a different name on non-English versions of Windows. For example...
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