Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year.

The Windows Start button should be on the left side of the taskbar. We'll show you where to find the setting to move it back.

Patrick Marshall answers your tech questions. This week's topics cover the Start button on monitor screens failing to function and an alert sound on a PC that's becoming more frequent.

He means that when you sit down at your computer, you typically use the Start button to begin your computing session, but in the future, you'll sit down and open Copilot instead.

Windows 7 Start Button Changer is a freeware portable app that allows you change the Windows 7 Start Orb or Start Button easily.

One of the biggest gripes that longtime Windows users have with the upcoming OS release is Microsoft's decision to pull the classic Start menu to make way ...