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right for certain lovable oddballs who use other techniques for

opening their apps.

Besides, your full apps list isn’t really gone forever. You can bring
it back by clicking the icon that now appears in the places
column. It replaces tiles with the regularly scheduled apps list.

(You can then click the icon to bring back the tiles.)

Move something to Start or the taskbar. Suppose there’s some

app—say, Calculator—that’s listed in “Most used,” “Recently
installed,” or the main apps list. And you think you’d rather have it
installed on your taskbar, visible at all times. Or you think it’d

work best as a tile on the right side.

Right-click its name. From the shortcut menu, choose “Pin to
taskbar” or “Pin to Start.” It disappears from the left side and goes

where you sent it.

Tip

On a touchscreen, you can “right-click” something by holding your finger down on it for a second.

The App List Shortcut Menu

If you right-click an app’s name (Figure 1-9), you get a very promising
submenu that may contain commands like these:

Unpin from Start. If this app is also represented as a tile on the
fly-out Start menu, then this command vaporizes the tile. Now the
app is listed only here, in the apps list.

More. This submenu usually offers commands like “Unpin from
taskbar” (if the app is, in fact, pinned to the taskbar as described on
“The Taskbar as App Launcher”), “App settings” (dive directly

into this app’s settings), “Rate and review” (on the app store),
“Share” (with friends you think might like the app), and “Don’t

show in this list” (stop making this app appear in the “Most used”