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The shortcuts to system settings from the Windows 7 Start menu aren’t available on Start; instead,<br />

they’re on a hidden power-user’s menu, which is available when you right-click the Start button or use<br />

the Windows logo key + X shortcut. Figure 2-2 shows this menu, which switched to a dark theme in<br />

Windows <strong>10</strong> version 1511.<br />

FIGURE 2-2 This Quick Link menu appears if you press Windows logo key + X or right-click the Start button at the<br />

left of the taskbar.<br />

The default Start menu contains a Power button (with the options Sleep, Shut Down, and Restart).<br />

You can adjust the size of the Start menu by dragging the top and side borders. (You can use the<br />

Personalization option to expand the Start menu to a full screen without enabling Tablet Mode, which I<br />

describe later in this chapter.)<br />

Those live tiles work more or less the same as their counterparts in Windows 8.1. You can resize each<br />

tile, arrange them into groups, and give each group a descriptive name.<br />

The Settings app<br />

That Settings shortcut leads to the Windows <strong>10</strong> successor of Windows 8’s PC Settings. The iconography,<br />

shown in Figure 2-3, is a distinctive change from the Windows 7 Control Panel.<br />

CHAPTER 2 The Windows <strong>10</strong> user experience 21

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