New software lets you ignore the Win 8 Start screen so that all you ever see is the traditional desktop. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's ...

The ability to customize your Start Screen with your favorite apps and colors, adding people, photos and other tiles is a built-in feature in Windows 8. However, Windows only allows adding certain ...

The original version of Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 operating system did something no one ever thought Microsoft would do. With it Microsoft stripped away the Start Menu that’d dominated older versions of ...