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Where can you see installed program?
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To launch your applications, go to the Start Screen by pointing your mouse pointer to the left hand corner of the Windows 8 screen and click it.
Scroll to the right and launch your application.
In the same Start Screen, right click and click All Apps - you should see all installed applications on the system then.
Totally agree. Microsoft has become increasingly less user-friendly. In the desperate corporate marathon to keep up with Chinese, slave-labor made Apple products, MS has attempted to copy them, but usually manages to replicate all the wrong features AND always at the expense of customer access to basic components. For example, Windows 8 did away with the All Programs feature, easily and conveniently accessible, in favor of charms and indecipherable (for me) iconography. I preferred the nice, easy-to-read lists of Win 7. But, that's just me.
I place a lot of the blame on of stupid, unnecessary interface mutations on sales and departmental heads who are often clueless (and couldn't care less) about customer preferences. The other major problem with Windows is its isolated, developmental team approach. Programmers are assigned sections, and sections often have no idea what their adjoining cubicle mates are doing. In fact, it has been told to me by a Microsoft engineer that NO SINGLE PERSON understands completely how Windows works. But this is also due to the millions of lines of coding (C++) involved as much as it is Microsoft's design, coding and lack of integrative production model.
Gates has never been a people person: He might be a very nice guy--but he's so clearly a nerd that his grasp of human interaction--let alone human-machine interface--is shall we say still at level 0. The obfuscating and entirely unnecessary and useless, arcane error messages, the stilted programmer's language of Windows's ersatz 'help' screens, the highly exploitable and unsafe Internet Explorer. Just a few of the many examples.
Buy an Apple
For me it was also confusing. But the way do to it, is first to go to the Start menu where the apps are.
Underneath at the left side of this screen there is an arrow in a circle. (This can be confusing because information about newly installed apps will also be stated there)
If you click on this arrow you will go into a new menu where you will find all apps , all installed programs and all system tools.
I agree with ValerieAnderson26, this didn't help me at all. I don't want to see just the installed apps, I want to see all the programs that are in the PC whether they are installed or not. Call me old fashion or whatever you want but I definitely liked the old start menu from the previous versions, Windows XP being my favorite.
I agree with ValerieAnderson26, this didn't help me at all. I don't want to see just the installed apps,I want to see all the programs that are in the PC whether they are installed or not. Call me old fashion or whatever you want but I definitely liked the old start menu from the previous versions, Windows XP being my favorite.
you want to see programs which aren't installed on the computer? what the..?
anyway, the all apps view shows the exact same contents as the all programs view in previous versions of windows, in addition to the store apps.
