Holding the Power Button Down Does Not Turn Off the Computer. The proper way to shut down a computer is by pressing the Windows "Start" button and selecting "Shut Down" from the available options.

When Microsoft first revealed that it would be taking out the Start Button and Start Menu in Windows 8 the response was loud. Either users wanted to hold onto the old and focus on using Desktop ...

No Power button on Windows 8.1 Start Screen? If Power Options button is missing, learn how to show, hide, remove, toggle the Power button on Start Screen.

The Windows Start menu saga, from 1993 to today One of Windows 10's biggest "new" features has a pedigree that spans two decades.

Patrick Marshall answers your tech questions. This week's topics cover the Start button on monitor screens failing to function and an alert sound on a PC that's becoming more frequent.

According to the latest leaked build of Windows 8.1 (Blue), the Start button and menu will make their triumphant return -- but they won't look or work like the Windows 7 Start menu. With Windows ...

Do you use the Start button in Windows? If not, then you're supposedly the reason Microsoft got rid of it in Windows 8. Chaitanya Sareen, principal program manager at Microsoft, told U.K. computer ...