After you’ve unlocked the computer, the Start screen appears; it holds tiles. If there are more tiles than there is space on the screen,
you’ll see a scroll bar across the bottom of the
screen (which doesn’t appear
in the figure). 
Tiles can serve many purposes. Many of the tiles open apps such as Mail, People,
and Messaging. Some of these tiles also offer up-to-date information for the application they represent and are considered live tiles.
You do not need to open the app to view basic data it offers.
For example, the Weather
app, after it is configured, can show up-to-date weather information for your city, and the Calendar
app can show upcoming appointments and birthdays. This data appears
on the Start screen
so you have access to it without opening the app. The information is dynamic
and changes as the information it represents does.
If you need to see more than a preview of the information, you can
click the tile, and the app opens in a new screen from which you can access all its features. Messaging, People, Calendar, Photos, Mail, and similar apps all do this. You can get more apps from the Store.
Beyond offering
access to the default
apps that come with Windows 8 (and any you acquire from the Store), the Start screen can also offer tiles for many of the programs and applica- tions you install
yourself. You might see tiles for Microsoft
Word, Outlook, or PowerPoint, Adobe
Photoshop, or other programs. These are not apps. They’re
called desktop apps, and they are the traditional applications with which you’re familiar. Often you obtain
these by downloading them from a website or by installing them from a CD or DVD. (In contrast,
you can get apps only from the Windows Store.)
To open an application, whether
it’s an app or a desktop app, you click or touch the tile on the Start screen. What you see after this depends
on the type of app or application you’ve opened. It’s important to note that you can remove
apps from the Start screen if you don’t plan on using them. Just right-click the unwanted tile and choose Unpin From Start. (If you do not have a keyboard, mouse, or track pad and can use your finger only, tap, hold, and drag downward
to display the option to remove it. You’ll know you’ve done this correctly when a check mark appears on the selected
app.) When you unpin an app from the Start screen, note that this only removes
the tile and does not uninstall the related app. As you’ll learn later, it’s easy to access
all your apps from a single screen
if you want to use the app again.
Beyond opening apps and desktop
apps, some tiles offer access to familiar parts of the computer such as the desktop. From the desktop,
you can open File Explorer
by clicking the folder icon located
on the taskbar.
If you leave the Start screen
and want to go back, tap the Windows
key on your keyboard.
Tablets often have a physical Windows
button. Alternatively, you can position the cursor in the bottom-left corner
and click when the thumbnail of the Start screen appears.
Finally, you can add tiles.
You can pin your favorite
folder (perhaps My Documents or
Public Documents) to the Start screen,
and you can do the same with your favorite web- 1
site (perhaps Facebook). You can pin almost anything. Pinning items to the Start screen
is a great way to personalize Windows
8 and makes the Start screen
much more useful. If you’ve already pinned
a few items, you’ll see them. 
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