Clean and simple, Windows 8's Desktop mode also lacks any apparent ways to get back to Metro. Here are three tips on how to do just that.

Windows 8 comes with a new user interface called the Windows Start Screen that is the first thing you see when you login to Windows 8. This is the main interface that Windows 8 user's use to ...

Windows 8.1 users can easily move and resize tiles, create and name groups of tiles, change the background image, and pin freshly installed apps on the Start screen.

How to Make the Desktop the Default Start Screen on Windows 8. Microsoft introduced a completely redesigned user interface called Metro with the release of Windows 8, but it didn't make it easy to ...

Personalize Windows 8 User Experience. Learn how to change Account Picture, Lock Screen, Start Screen, Themes, Wallpapers in Windows 8.

You don't have to look at drab backgrounds colors in Windows 8.1, here's how to add a personlized picture to the Start Screen in Windows 8.1.

Things were easier on Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8. In the Modern IE version, you had to open the website in Modern UI IE, right-click, and from the bottom menu bar select Pin to Start.

To open the Control Panel from the Windows 8 Start Screen go to the Start Screen and type Control. When the search results appear click on the Settings category as shown below.

Changing the background in the Metro UI's Start screen can make interacting with that part of Windows 8 a more pleasant experience. Here's how.