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 Start button had been pausing games for years, but newer Home buttons now often do that, too. And Select? It hasn't had a clear purpose for a long time. Because of this, we've seen some tinkering.

Push-button start has been, until recently, considered a luxury feature. That’s no surprise — starting your car with the press of a button feels like the height of convenience.

Patrick Marshall answers your tech questions. This week's topics cover the Start button on monitor screens failing to function and an alert sound on a PC that's becoming more frequent.

Windows 7 Start Button Changer is a freeware portable app that allows you change the Windows 7 Start Orb or Start Button easily.

Gmail is rolling out a new "Select All" button on Android devices which can help you more quickly clean your inbox.

I click on the Start button, open the folder for Adobe Suite, and select the shortcut for Photoshop. Clean, simple, and quick. Windows 8: I'm working in the desktop and want to launch Adobe Photoshop.

The button layout here is very familiar, with more sensibly placed start/select buttons than on some other examples, decent membrane face buttons and rear buttons that line up perfectly with where ...

As for how you’ll use the start and select buttons for PS3 games, Shuhei confirmed they’ll be mapped to Share and Options buttons on the DualShock 4, an obvious choice.

The original form factor included a directional pad, a "start" and "select" button, and four face buttons with a green triangle, blue cross, red circle, and pink square.

The Select and Start buttons that have appeared on every Sony PlayStation controller since the PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, died on November 15 in brick and mortar and online ...

Most noticeably, the Ultimate features five menu buttons near its center. There's the home button, a start, and select button, a profile switcher, and a star button.