Getting to the Desktop
If you are like most people, you haven’t left behind your desktop-based Windows apps in favor of all Windows 8 apps. That will, no doubt, change over time as more Windows 8 apps become available and as desktop versions are updated to support the Windows 8 UI. Fortunately, Windows 8 still supports those desktop apps and makes it easy to get to them from the Start screen. To open the desktop, just tap or click the Desktop tile on the Start screen.
If you are working in a Windows 8 app and want to switch to the desktop, you can access it from the app thumbnails. Just open the thumbnails and tap or click the desktop thumbnail. Or, you can also use Alt+Tab or Windows+Tab to open the desktop.
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