We pushed the start button and felt the foreboding rumble of the W-12 engine beneath us.
Back on the old desktop view, the most visible change is that the Start button is gone.
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Brings back the Start Button and Start Menu with more functionality and customizability.
This reading had warned me about a supposed huge flaw in Windows 8, which was that the START button had been eliminated.
In some cases, the update even changes the way you interact with the OS. Yes, that means the Start button is back (sort of).
And then you press the start button on the dash and in our 3.0-liter turbodiesel test truck a moment's delay, and then the tick-purr of the engine.
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Removing the Start button in Windows 8 is Microsoft's first misjudgment.
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There are other off-putting details too: if you press the Start button on the lower bezel while the screen is propped up, the entire display moves.
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The device was also quick to launch apps, as well as close out of them abruptly if ever we changed our mind and hit the Start button.
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The start button sits in the middle of the drive buttons and works only when a smooth rectangle key fob is inserted fully into the slot and held down.
RetroUI Pro allows you to brings back features which Microsoft removed in Windows 8, such as the Start Button and Start Menu, and adds RetroUI exclusive features that allow you to run the new Windows 8 Start Screen and new Windows 8 Apps on the classic Windows desktop.
Navigation: The green Start button always brings you back to the Start menu from any location in your Portable Media Center.
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Though it sacrifices genuine leather in favor of a rubber coating, its contours and features are similar, down to the Engine Start button (here, a d-pad) and the turn signals (replaced with face buttons).
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With Windows 8, Microsoft made many radical changes, not the least of which being the deletion of the fabled Start button.
Users can still switch to a more traditional desktop mode by clicking on an icon, but the environment lacks the start menu button offered since Windows 95.
Pressure has been building for Windows 8 PCs to launch the familiar desktop view when turned on -- and to bring back the "start" button featured in the lower left corner of the screen in previous releases.
Push the backlit engine-start button and the dashboard air vents automatically rotate open while the rotary shift knob rises up from the center console.
"Additionally, a malfunctioning stop lamp switch may also result in intermittent operation of the push-button start feature, affect the operation of the brake-transmission shift interlock feature, preventing the shifter from being moved out of the park position and cause the Electronic Stability Control (ESC) malfunction light to illuminate, " stated NHTSA documents.
Note: the Comfort Mouse's Start button is located on the left, meaning it was clearly designed for righties.
Thanks to the 'My Media' quick-start button on the NeoTV PRIME remote control, you easily access the media player app with the mere push of a button.
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Tap the screen, pull up a search box, enter your destination, and tap the 'Start' button.
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Suddenly, swinging, come-hither horns set up a multilayered tribal breakdown, as if the band is jamming the "start" button on a modern-day Freddie Mercury revival.
The temptation is to just keep tapping the button a dozen times, but since it's one button to start and stop you run the risk of turning it on and then back off again.
There has been significant backlash over the lack of a Start button, and other elements of Windows 8.
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