Friday, December 7, 2012

How to get to the start button in Windows Server 2012

How do you access the 'start button' in windows server 2012?

Good luck!

This photo has the hover spots clearly marked with bright red to make it easier.   In order to get to the 'start screen' you have to hover in one of these areas.

What?  You missed it?  Can't find it?  They are only a couple of pixels wide!  I circled them with  yellow quarter circles, the actual hover areas are still in red:


I'm an avid microsoft user, and a fan of many of their products.  However, this is just about the dumbest thing I have run across yet, and it crosses a line to absolute stupidity.  This is a SERVER OS!  I access it from virtual consoles across networks!  It probably isn't even a real machine, but is a virtualized host in a datacenter somewhere.  You might say, you can press the 'start button' on your keyboard right?  NOT on a virtual host, the start button works on your local PC only.  It isn't that big of a deal you might say, just hover on those spots, now that you know where they are, right?  Again, this is a VIRTUAL MACHINE which means it is accessed through a virtual screen on my desktop.  It doesn't have edges that your mouse stops at.  You have to very carefully line up the mouse with the exact 2 pixel wide spots and play with it until you get it right.  What is wrong with MS?  Does anyone in Redmond actually use this?  Once you finally get the start 'screen' up, the fun really begins, because everything has been moved and hidden and you get to start over with finding anything.  Note that the locations haven't been IMPROVED, they have just been MOVED for the sake of moving them.  Once you find the ones you need, you better pin them to your start bar, or you'll get to do this rediculous operation day in and day out.  Microsoft: Why the start button HATE?  What did the start button ever do to you?  You still put the stupid TRASH CAN on the main screen, and I don't even want it!

Microsoft should take a lesson from the auto industry:  DONT MOVE CRITICAL CONTROLS.  Imagine if they did this with cars, and they just randomly moved the turn signals, headlights, gas pedal and brakes around.  Each car you got into would have them in different places.  When you took it in for service, they'd re-arrange them just 'because' and if you didn't like it, it would be your own fault.

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  1. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hide-recycle-bin#1TC=windows-7

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