Chapter    5

Finding Apps using the Start Window

Finding Applications

Many of the most commonly used applications you have can be found on the Start screen, e.g., Microsoft Word or Internet Explorer.

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If you right click on your Start screen, a bar at the bottom pops up, click on ‘All Apps’ to reveal the apps installed on your computer. Some people have hundreds of apps on their computer. Even on this computer, I have filled a page with this list of apps and already, looking through this to find a file is not a task you want to do lots of times a day. So this can get out of control. So how do you solve that problem?

A quick way to find apps is ...

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