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The Start button lives on the left edge of your taskbar, that icon-filled strip centered along the desktop’s bottom edge. A click or tap of the Start button fetches the Start menu, which lists your installed apps and programs. When the Start menu appears, you click the app or program you’d like to run.

I cover the Start menu in Chapter 2, but here’s a quick step-by-step on how to open the Start menu and launch an app or program:

1  Click the Start button, the left-most icon on your taskbar.The Start menu appears, as shown in Figure 3-2.The Start menu automatically lists names of your most recently accessed apps and programs in its bottom edge. Above them, the Start menu displays icons of popular apps installed on your computer.FIGURE 3-2: You can launch apps and programs from the Start menu.

2 If you see the app or program you want to launch listed on the Start menu, click it.Click a name or an icon, and the app or program opens in a window on your desktop, ready for action.

Don’t see the name of the app or program you want to launch? Click the All Apps button in the Start menu’s upper-right corner to see an alphabetical list of all your apps and programs. From here, you have several choices:

 If you don’t see your desired app’s name, scroll down the list of names by clicking in the bar just to the right of the names. (I describe how to scroll with a scroll box in Chapter 4.)

 If the app you want to launch doesn’t appear on the list, chances are good that it’s not installed on your computer. To download it, open the Microsoft Store app, which I cover in Chapter 6.

You can also fetch the Start menu by pressing the key on your keyboard or tablet.

After you’ve opened an app or program, you’ll eventually want to close it, a task I cover in Chapter 4. (But here’s a spoiler: To close an app, move your mouse pointer to the app’s upper-right corner and click the little X, shown in the margin.)

I explain more about the Start menu, including how to customize it to meet your needs, in Chapter 2.