Microsoft introduced a completely redesigned user interface called Metro with the release of Windows 8, but it didn't make it easy to turn it off if you or your employees prefer desktop-based, ...

When using Windows, under certain circumstances the Windows Desktop will not be shown. When this happens, when you login to Windows instead of seeing the desktop, start menu, or your normal icons, you ...

With Windows Blue, Microsoft may concede that not everyone wants or needs the new modern-style Start screen. Citing unnamed sources, both ZDNet and The Verge say that Microsoft is considering a ...

Not only will Microsoft return the Start Button to the taskbar in its forthcoming update to Windows 8, Windows 8.1, the company will also let users boot directly into the Desktop interface. The ...

With the Windows 10 technical preview now out and being downloaded by thousands if not millions of users, we know that you are likely customizing your new Start screen and we want to see it. Windows ...

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With Windows 8.1 out of the way, Microsoft has now begun work on Windows 8.2. According to sources close to the development Windows 8.2, dubbed Threshold, Microsoft will bring Windows, Windows Phone ...