Up pops a list of items like File Explorer, Settings, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos, HomeGroup, and Network, so that you can turn on or off the ones you like (bottom). Finally, click “Choose which folders appear on Start” (middle). In the Settings window (top right), choose Personalization. For convenience, let’s call them the left side and the right side.įigure 1-6. You can add other important folders to your Start menu. The Start menu ( Figure 1-4) is split into two columns. Tap to open the Start menu (or to close it!). If you feel that life’s too short, however, tap the key on the keyboard instead, or the button if it’s a tablet. If you’re the type who bills by the hour, you can open the Start menu ( Figure 1-3, lower left) by clicking it with the mouse. But it’s still called the Start menu, and it’s still the gateway to everything on the PC. In Windows 10, as you’ve probably noticed, the word “Start” doesn’t actually appear on the Start menu, as it did for years now the Start menu is just a square button in the lower-left corner of your screen, bearing the Windows logo ( ). Just about everything you do on your PC begins-or can begin-with your Start menu. It lists every useful piece of software on your computer, including commands, programs, and files. That’s why the Start menu is so important ( Figure 1-4). They may as well bear a sticker reading, “No user-serviceable parts inside.” The vast majority of them are not for you they’re support files, there for behind-the-scenes use by Windows and your applications. Just make sure it matches the screen ratio, is under 256kb in size and is called is composed of 50 million lines of computer code, scattered across your hard drive in thousands of files. Then navigate to C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds (again if these folders/locations don't exist create them) and drop your selected wallpaper into that location. You can however change the wallpaper.įirst open regedit.exe and navigate to and check for the DWORD OEMBackground, if it exists change the value to 1 (if it doesn't exist, create it).
If there is anyway to get this consolidated into one classic-like dialog box?The old (Windows 2000 style) classic logon dialog box was removed in Windows Vista & Windows 7. Also, this isn't as important but is there a way to get the classic login box back (with the drop down for domain, etc)? Currently, there are blank boxes for user icons I'd also like to get rid of, as we will never use them, and I have to click over to get the extended options for switching domains.
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