How to Access the Apps Screen with a Self-Made Start
Button in Windows 8
Steps:
Canned Statement: Let me go ahead and add start button.
Right Click on the desktop and
select shortcut
Copy and paste the following
lines and click on Next
explorer.exe
shell:::{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}
When you see the second screen
in the Create Shortcut wizard, type a short name for your shortcut. As you can
see in Figure, I named my example shortcut Apps.
To complete the wizard, just
click Finish.
Right click on the shortcut
and choose the Properties command
As soon as you see the shortcut
icon, right click on it and select the Properties command, as shown in Figure.
By default, the Change Icon
dialog box displays the icons from the explorer.exe
When you see the Properties
dialog box, click the Change Icon button to open the Change Icon dialog box, as
shown in Figure. By default the Change Icon dialog box displays the
icons from the explorer.exe file. As you can see, none of the available icons
are very exciting. However, if you click the Browse button, you can search for
other files that contain icons.
While the Windows flag icon
is a good choice, you can add the Windows Media Center icon better
I first found a nice Windows
flag in the imageres.dll file (C:\Windows\System32.dll) that I considered
using, but then I remembered the green Orb icon from Windows Media Center was
very nice and found it in the ehshell.exe file (C:\Windows\ehome). Both are
shown in Figure.
Select the Pin to Taskbar
command
I ended up choosing the Windows
Media Center icon because it resembles the Start button but since it is green,
it is different from the blue Windows 7 icon. Of course, you can use any icon
that you prefer. As soon as you choose your icon, right click on it and then
select the Pin to Taskbar command, as shown in Figure.
Drag the pinned icon to the
left side of the taskbar
Once your custom Start button
appears on the taskbar, drag it all the way to the left side of the taskbar, as
shown in Figure. As you can see, using the green Orb icon and
positioning it at the end of the taskbar really makes the desktop look like
Windows 7.
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