If you are already one of the many people who have Windows 8.1 as the most important update offered by Microsoft, then maybe you should know a few additional functions that were offered in the same; If you haven't explored them yet anyway, then we'll mention how to use each of them and where to find them.
Windows 8.1 offered it completely free for Windows 8 users, and must be paid by those who have a previous operating system (for example, Windows 7, Windows XP and a few others). In this article we will initially start by stating that the Start Button Menu returned under a mode that almost no one expected, although there are a few other functions that are of interest to many people and perhaps yours as well.
Enable and disable features in Windows 8.1 environment
As we suggested previously, we will start by mentioning what you can get to do with this Start Menu Button in Windows 8.1; If you click on it (located in the lower left part) with the left mouse button, you can immediately jump between the Desktop and the Start Screen. If you click with the right mouse button, a large number of functions will be displayed, which you will also get with the "Win + X" keyboard shortcut.
You could say that's it as for the damn Start Menu Button, not being a great novelty since we had the same type of functions previously in Windows 8 although, with keyboard shortcut.
Hide corner options on screen
For those who have a tablet (obviously with a touch screen) it is a great help to have to use the different options and functions that they are displayed once we touch both the upper left and right corner. Unfortunately, the same situation is not the same for those who have a computer with a physical keyboard and a conventional mouse.
Those who have a mouse usually have to overcome a large number of vicissitudes to be able to locate the pointer towards one of the corners and from there, choose any of the functions that are displayed; If this has happened to you, then you could hide these options, following these steps:
- Right-click on the toolbar.
- From the contextual menu choose the option Properties.
- From the new window that appears, go to the «Navigation«.
There we can admire a few deactivated boxes, which will help us to stop using certain functions and among them:
- Disable the options in the upper corners of the screen.
- Make our operating system jump directly to the desktop.
- Make installed applications appear on the Starting screen the place of conventional tiles.
It depends on each situation, a user could activate all the boxes or just some of them, a situation that could help them to do a job much faster and more effectively. But How can I access the functions that appeared in the upper corners of the screen?
The question is valid, because if the options that appear in both the upper left and right corner are not activated, then we could not get to enter the configuration of Windows 8.1 and even worse, turn off the computer from this right sidebar; advantageously if there is an option, since if we have activated the box in which we order the installed applications to appear instead of the tiles, the icon of System configuration.
As for the the option to shut down or reboot to Windows 8.1, it is already implicitly included in this new Start Menu Button, something that you will admire if you click on it with the right mouse button; There is also another option for this task, which is supported in the keyboard shortcut Win + X that we had already mentioned previously, which also shows this option to be able to shut down or restart our computer with Windows 8.1.
As we can admire, there are a few tricks that you can use to make your work in this Microsoft operating system more comfortable and efficient.
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