Adding Shutdown and Restart Tiles to the Start Screen
While the Start screen does offer a few productivity improvements—at-a-glance info with live tiles, one-click app launching, as-you-type searching—there are a few tasks that are maddeningly (and, in our view, unnecessarily) inefficient. We’re thinking in particular of shutting down and restarting your PC. To perform these tasks using a mouse, you must display the Charms menu, click Settings to open the Start settings pane, click Power, and then click Shut Down or Restart. Yes, you can always go directly to the Settings pane by pressing Windows Logo+I, but then you have to switch back to the mouse to continue. It’s just inefficient either way.
If you want to apply the one-click ease of a Start ...
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