ViStart can skip the Start Screen, booting you to the desktop; you're able to disable selected Windows 8 hot corners; and the interface is very configurable (you can choose your Start button, the ...

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.

The disappearance of a Start button and traditional Start Menu from Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 8, has been controversial.Many users who have been using the software for years ...

Microsoft updated the software in 1992 to support multimedia programmes like Media Player and Sound Recorder. ... Both, Start button and task bar, got some design changes.

May 30, 2013 — -- The Start button is getting a fresh start. Microsoft has revealed some of the changes coming to Windows 8.1 and, as expected, it has resurrected the Start button in the left ...