in the first column to the left so you will always see it. 10. Right click the icon and select Pin to Taskbar if you want the shortcut to live on your desktop's taskbar as well. The switching from Desktop to Start menu is so fast that it doesn't cause much issues for me that is, I can contain the context mentally. And I pin to Task bar or Start screen whichever makes more sense. For infrequent apps, its easier since you get an entire screen in the search so that you can see more results and easily classify. I do wish that you can just punch in your PIN or password without swiping up the lock screen. However, on my laptop you just have to swipe your fingerprint (no swiping up the lock screen). On my desktop computer, I use the physical power button to shutdown Windows 8 and the Sleep button on my keyboard. On my laptop, I do have to use the shut down function and I use the physical power button to tell Windows 8 to sleep. These behaviors are programmable, search for "Change what the power buttons do" in the Start screen under the Settings category. I just tried this on a newly-installed Windows 8 Release Preview. When I press the shutdown icon, it quickly flashes a DOS screen with a lot of errors, including security issue, but it's so fast I can't read anything else. Anyway, it doesn't shut down. they may be forcing