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Windows 8 - How to move News App to desktop
location: microsoft.com - date: January 20, 2013
I would like to have the News App on my desktop where it will be more accessible.  I haven't found a way yet - is there one?
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How do Local Accounts access applications on the Windows 8 Administrator's desktop
location: microsoft.com - date: December 6, 2012
I installed Microsoft Office on my Windows 8 computer and the Icons appeared (and the applications work) on the Adminstrator's desktop but not on the Local Account's desktop on the same computer.  How can Local Account users share these applications?
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Windows 8 - How to open PDF docs and Start Menu application choices in the current working desktop?
location: microsoft.com - date: November 18, 2012
I recently upgraded to Windows 8 Professional.   One issue that I'm having, is that whenever I try to open a PDF document, it always opens in a new, dedicated window, with a totally black background.   Is there a way to open PDF documents on the desktop, so that I can see the PDF content, on the same page as all of my other open applications?   Under older versions of Windows, I can go to the start menu, then select all applications, and they're listed in the same desktop screen as all of my other already opened applications.   In Windows 8 Professional, I haven't found a way to duplicate that behavior yet!   It keeps taking me to a completely different screen.  One that looks like it might have been
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In windows 8 how do I add new email contacts
location: microsoft.com - date: December 25, 2012
  I want to add new names to my contact list, but I can't find a way.   Glance down all the things listed and no contacts. Click the plus sign and it takes you to a list. All  the existing names you can use.   How do you add more......hotmail, yahoo and gmail.   Hate to day it, but it is mind boggling.
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How come I can’t make Windows 8 display 2 apps at the same time?
location: 8forums.com - date: October 30, 2012
I have 2 large computer screens and they are extended. With Windows 7 I could watch the news in one window, be chatting on Skype in another window, be viewing pictures in another window, be shopping for products in another window, be reading reviews in another window, be sending emails in another window and be writing a letter in word and have my calculator running all at the same time. I could cut and paste and drag and drop stuff all over the place. Every time I fire up an app in windows 8 it takes up one full screen and I can’t see the other things I am doing. Has Windows 8 lost the windows?
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I can't make the Homegroup Icon show on my desktop in Windows 8, how do I do so?
location: microsoft.com - date: January 21, 2013
I am unable to make the Homegroup Icon or the Libaries Icon show up in desktop mode on Windows 8. In all other ways Windows 8 acts as if they are there; they who up when I look at the desktop as a folder, they take up spots on the grid. I am wanting them to show. I would rather they be something I can move, but if not I'd still rather be able to see them then have them hidden.
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how can I move a game that I purchase from the windows 8 store to my desktop on windows 7?
location: microsoft.com - date: May 11, 2013
How can I put an icon on my windows 7 desktop that I purchased in the windows 8 store like games?  I purchased the MahJong Suite 2013 in the windows 8 store and it automatically had an icon on both windows 8 desktop as well as my windows 7 desktop.  I have another game I purchased called word search and would like that icon to be on my windows 7 desktop because I don't want to use the windows 8 anymore, I don't like it, too many problems so will stick with my windows 7 but want the other game I purchased.  Does anyone know how I can get it to my windows 7 desktop?  Also how do I go back to my windows 7 and get rid of the windows 8 update that I installed.  I really don't like it at all.  Thanks.
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How to open Windows 8 start screen apps with an F-key?
location: microsoft.com - date: May 9, 2013
I'm trying to figure out how I can assign windows 8 start screen apps to an F-Key. For example, I'm able to launch I.E. 10 in desktop mode when I click F9, but instead of desktop mode, how can I open the I.E. app instead? Or how would I open windows 8 mail with f10? etc.... Also, some programs ask me to "browse" to select a program to assign an F-key. Where is the program folder for start screen apps?
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All my Apps have disappeared from Windows 8 - how do I retrieve them
location: microsoft.com - date: October 28, 2012
I bought a Dell Inspiron 15 a week ago with windows 8 inside and now all the apps are gone. There are no tiles. The screen is blank. I think that it was not a good idea to buy a computer with this os. I will try to go back to windows 7 . I think that this should not happen in a good and stable operating system!
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All my Apps have disappeared from Windows 8 - how do I retrieve them
location: microsoft.com - date: October 28, 2012
My 'All Apps' page has disappeared, all apps page is blank; in Windows 8. Why? How do I retrieve them?
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