Microsoft is bringing more of the Metro user interface to Windows 8’s desktop, swapping frosted glass for sharp edges and minimalist icons. The aesthetic change, spotted by Engadget, was quietly ...

The Windows 8 desktop starts off as a clean slate with no clear access to the applications and features you need. Here are some tips on how to create the familiar desktop you know and sometimes love.

In a few short days, Microsoft will unleash Windows 8. Given the way Microsoft seems to be spending most of its $1.5 billion Windows 8 marketing budget on the Surface tablet and the Metro Start ...

The Windows 8 Desktop works the same way as Windows 7, including the ability to place program icons anywhere on the desktop and pin icons to the taskbar. In Windows 8.1, there is even a Start Menu ...

Windows 8 provides several ways to increase or decrease the size of the items on your desktop. If all you want to do is change the size of your desktop shortcut icons, you can use your mouse wheel ...

Unfortunately, Metro and Desktop environments remain completely disconnected in some critical ways, despite the Windows 8.1 overhaul. When you start typing a search in Window 8.1, the default is ...

Brace yourself, Windows users. Microsoft's operating system is poised for stunning, dramatic change. Today Microsoft releases its public preview of Windows 8, and it's a radical departure -- not ...

Desktop icon positions not being saved? If your Desktop icons keep jumping, bouncing, rearranging or moving after Reboot or Refresh on Windows 11/10, see this post.

I've been customizing my Windows UI extensively for about five years now, and these are the programs, resources, and tools I ...

The Windows 8 Desktop works the same way as Windows 7, including the ability to place program icons anywhere on the desktop and pin icons to the taskbar. In Windows 8.1, there is even a Start Menu ...

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