The desktop in the Windows 8 beta offers no Start button and a few shortcuts. How can you easily populate it with your favorite programs? Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

Want to download a free Windows Icon Pack? An Icon Pack, as the name itself suggests, is a pack of new icons for the apps stored on your PC or phone. Normally an icon pack contains thousands of icons ...

Microsoft is bringing more of the Metro user interface to Windows 8’s desktop, swapping frosted glass for sharp edges and minimalist icons. The aesthetic change, spotted by Engadget, was quietly ...

It may seem awkward that the first thing you'll want to do with Windows 8 is make it more like Windows 7, but for many of us who rely on our desktops, that's exactly the case. In this article I'll ...