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.

After that, the Windows 8.1 start button simply disappears and the Pokki "start button" sits in its place. Pokki also has other features I like.

If the Start menu is not opening or the Start button is not working on your Windows 11/10 computer, you can try some fixes, like restarting Windows Explorer, repairing the system image files ...

Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year.

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.

Windows Blue could restore the Start button, boot straight to the desktop "Windows 8.1" may let you pretend that the Start screen never happened.

Windows 8.1, which will be available for download in a preview version on June 26, will feature the good old Start button in desktop mode. Users who dislike the new Modern UI/Metro interface will ...

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 ...

The icon pops up when the cursor is in that position. In the Desktop mode of Windows 8.1, this Start icon appears on the taskbar, just like a pinned application. Boot to Desktop.