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An overview of the new Windows user experience<br />
The Start screen is gone. The desktop is back.<br />
That’s the beginning of the Windows <strong>10</strong> user experience, but it’s far from the entire story.<br />
The new Start menu, shown in Figure 2-1, is divided vertically in two, just as its Windows 7 predecessor<br />
was, but its contents are a bit different.<br />
FIGURE 2-1 The new Start menu combines distinctive features from its predecessors in Windows 7 and<br />
Windows 8.1.<br />
The default arrangement of the left column contains the following, from top to bottom:<br />
■■<br />
■■<br />
■■<br />
■■<br />
An icon for the current user, which when clicked or tapped reveals a menu with options to lock<br />
the PC, sign out, switch accounts, or change account settings<br />
Shortcuts to frequently used and recently added apps<br />
Shortcuts for File Explorer (Windows 7 users, note the name change), the Settings app, and a<br />
Power button<br />
An All Apps shortcut that replaces the left side of the Start menu with a scrolling list of installed<br />
apps and saved shortcuts—everything that was on its own screen in Windows 8.1<br />
You can customize this list using options under the Personalization heading in Settings. You can<br />
also specify a standard Start layout (and prevent users from customizing it) using Group Policy. (See<br />
Chapter 15, “Group Policy in Windows <strong>10</strong>,” for more details on this option.)<br />
20 CHAPTER 2 The Windows <strong>10</strong> user experience