95 And Below RME Weapons

[FrankReynolds]

I haven't used windows 8 yet. If there's no Start Menu, then how do you "run" things? (I.E. start -> run)

Clicking in the bottom left of the screen pulls up the "Start Screen". Basically they made the start menu a full screen app instead of a pop out and implemented live tiles that show information on the specific apps. IE. instead of a little icon that says "Email", you see a square tile that says email and shows how many unread messages you have so that you know without opening the email app whether or not you have new messages. The "facebook" tile might show how many posts have been made since you last checked or the first line of a message that someone sent you.

It's really all geared towards people who run windows on a tablet and want to see basic info at a glance. For people on desktop / laptop computers, you can pin apps to the taskbar or desktop etc. and never really have to go into that "menu". There are also about a million apps out there that make the whole thing look / function pretty much exactly like windows 7.

[Raksha]

Clicking in the bottom left of the screen pulls up the "Start Screen". Basically they made the start menu a full screen app instead of a pop out and implemented live tiles that show information on the specific apps. IE. instead of a little icon that says "Email", you see a square tile that says email and shows how many unread messages you have so that you know without opening the email app whether or not you have new messages. The "facebook" tile might show how many posts have been made since you last checked or the first line of a message that someone sent you.

It's really all geared towards people who run windows on a tablet and want to see basic info at a glance. For people on desktop / laptop computers, you can pin apps to the taskbar or desktop etc. and never really have to go into that "menu". There are also about a million apps out there that make the whole thing look / function pretty much exactly like windows 7.

So how do you start -> run then? Is there a run app?

[FrankReynolds]

So how do you start -> run then? Is there a run app?

Yeah. You can add the run function to the start menu just like you did in windows 7.

All of the tiles can be organized in whatever way you see fit and re-sized to show more / less info or take up more / less space. It's basically a giant start menu. The main beef seems to be that it is ugly, but they are making the BG fully customizable soon too, so it can look just like the desktop if that's your thing.



Like I said though, you can pin pretty much anything to the desktop / task bar making this menu pretty unnecessary at all if you prefer not to use it.

First thing I usually do on a new computer is go to www.ninite.com (after installing a fresh OS over the factory install) and install all the cool free stuff in one shot from there. One of the programs is called "Classic Start". It gives you a fully customizeable start menu that looks / functions just like the old one.

[Shirai]

So how do you start -> run then? Is there a run app?

And now to give you a good answer to this question.
Windows key + r will open your 'Run' box.

And here's some other options.
http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topi...ndows-hotkeys/