Microsoft recently launched the public beta of Windows 8 - their next operating system release. Windows 8 has been completely redesigned, the OS is optimized for tablets rather then mice and keyboards. I have been running the Windows 8 beta as my main system for about a week now and have encountered more then a few interesting changes.
One of the radical changes that Microsoft made was the complete removal of the Start Menu. The removal of this Windows icon initially left me scrambling to find new ways of performing basic tasks like shutting down the computer. Fortunately, a replacement for the start menu exists.... sort of.
Enter the "links" toolbar
The "links" toolbar is a toolbar that appears on your taskbar next to the notification area. You can enable the links toolbar by right-clicking on any empty space in the taskbar and selecting "links" under "toolbars". You can add shortcuts to your links toolbar by right-clicking on the word "Links" and selecting "open folder." Now you can add your own shortcuts here and they will appear in a drop-down menu when you click on the arrows in the taskbar.
Shutting Down and Rebooting
You can quickly reboot or shutdown your computer by placing a batch file in your "links" folder that runs the shutdown command. Place the following code into notepad and save it as shutdown.bat:
Now move "shutdown.bat" into your "links" folder and you can run the batch file from your taskbar. To create a reboot command replace "-s" with "-r" in the above line of code
While the links toolbar isn't a perfect start menu replacement it certainly goes a long way to reducing the shock in the conversion to Windows 8
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