{"id":4567,"date":"2012-08-03T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T01:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2012-08-01T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T02:05:02","slug":"a-nifty-springboard-in-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/a-nifty-springboard-in-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nifty Springboard in Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the impending release of Windows 8 both power and regular users alike might be looking for ways to ease the transition to the new Start Screen. If this sounds like you then here&#8217;s something that you might find handy<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a hidden menu that will provide you immediate access to a lot of commonly used functions, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Device Manager,<\/li>\n<li>Command Prompt,<\/li>\n<li>Command Prompt (Admin),<\/li>\n<li>Control Panel,<\/li>\n<li>Search,<\/li>\n<li>Task Manager,<\/li>\n<li>Windows Explorer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4568\" style=\"width: 817px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Win-X-Menu-Windows-8.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4568\" class=\" wp-image-4568 \" title=\"Win X Menu - Windows 8\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Win-X-Menu-Windows-8.png?resize=817%2C615\" alt=\"Win X Menu - Windows 8\" width=\"817\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Win-X-Menu-Windows-8.png?w=1021&amp;ssl=1 1021w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Win-X-Menu-Windows-8.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 817px) 100vw, 817px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Win X Menu &#8211; Windows 8<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>All you need to do is hit Win + X and the menu will appear wherever you might be in Windows or an application and you&#8217;re in business!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the impending release of Windows 8 both power and regular users alike might be looking for ways to ease the transition to the new Start Screen. If this sounds like you then here&#8217;s something that you might find handy There&#8217;s a hidden menu that will provide you immediate access to a lot of commonly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/a-nifty-springboard-in-windows-8\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,151,18,1374],"tags":[2246,2361],"class_list":["post-4567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-technology","category-windows-8","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-8","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Windows-Logo.png?fit=256%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}