Navigating the Start Screen with a Keyboard
Everyone’s talking about the new touch features in Windows 8, but you’d be surprised just how many new keyboard shortcuts there are. We’ll get to those in a second, but for now you should know that you can navigate the Start screen using the keyboard. Here’s how:
1. Press Tab. Windows 8 selects the user account tile. If you want to select a command from this tile, press Spacebar, use the up and down arrow keys to select the command, and then press Enter.
2. Press Tab again. Windows 8 selects the first app tile.
3. Use the arrow keys to select the app you want to run.
4. Press Enter. Windows 8 launches the selected app.
Besides this technique, Windows 8 also offers a huge number of Windows Logo key–based ...
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