The Basics; Start Screen: Your Favourite Things - Microsoft Surface RT User Manual

The basics

There are a few things you need to know about the new Windows.
Important If you read nothing else in this guide, be sure to read this section and practice on your Surface.

Start screen: Your favourite things

The Start screen is your home base. You can customise
Start to have all the info you care about in one place. Each
tile on Start is connected to a person, app, website,
playlist, or whatever else is important to you.
Watch closely! This isn't a wall of static icons. The tiles
animate with the latest information—such as status
updates, weather forecasts, and appointments—and you'll
see live updates before you even open a single app.
You can pin as many tiles to Start as you want and move
them where you want. Find out all about this in the
Customise the Start screen
To go to the Start screen, do any of the following:
Touch Press the Windows logo
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tap Start.
Keyboard Press the Windows logo
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Mouse or trackpad Move the pointer into the lower-left corner. When Start appears, click in the corner.
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section of this guide.
on Surface, or swipe in from the right edge of the screen and then
key on Touch Cover or Type Cover.
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