Create Desktop Shortcut to open Start Menu (Metro) Screen?

Anonymous
2012-11-24T02:29:27+00:00

I want to make a desktop shortcut to open metro (Start Menu). I know there are ways to make desktop shortcuts for metro apps, but I wan to make a shortcut I can place on my desktop that actually opens metro as if I had moved the mouse over to the bottom left corner of the screen and opened it from there? There has to be a way?

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Anonymous
2013-01-03T22:53:16+00:00
  1. Create a text file and name it start.vbs2. Edit the file and paste in the following code

Set objShell = CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")objShell.SendKeys "^{ESC}"

  1. Save the file to your C drive and create a shortcut to it and put the shortcut on your desktop.
  2. Right click on the shortcut and change the icon to something from you want, or you can create a custom icon, I did this by finding a windows 8 logo on the web and taking a snip of it.

5.Put the newly create shortcut on the lower left of your desktop, and now you have a icon to get you to the start screen, bypassing the lower left corner hover.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-11-29T18:20:55+00:00

    Check out this

    http://www.7tutorials.com/download-shortcut-windows-8-start-screen-desktop

    Works fine on my W8 desktop.  Save the file to your desktop then pin to the taskbar.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-11-29T21:52:58+00:00

    Thank you for the response, but on my computer all it does is act like I pressed the windows key in windows 7. It unhides my start bar and maximizes the Start8 start menu. It's possible since I have Start8 installed on my computer, that its causing this. I'll have to try it on a windows 8 machine where Start8 is not installed before I can determine if it will open the metro start screen on other machines.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-11-24T03:50:40+00:00

    I didn't ask you for your OPINION on whether I should want it. I asked for someone's help on making it happen.

    In the program start8 from StarDock, they have a shortcut for it pinned to the start8 menu. I opened the properties dialog box to the shortcut and if you open the program with -metro after it, it opens metro. So I saved that to my desktop and can do it that way. But I want to know a way to do it without having to have Start8.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-11-24T03:37:36+00:00

    Can see no reason why you wish to create shortcut, as there are easier ways to carryout action required:

    1. Press > Winkey
    2. Hover cursor bottom L/H corner of screen & select 'Start'
    3. Reveal 'Charms' bar > select "Start'
    4. With touch, swipe in from the right edge of your screen, and then tap Start

    No, there is no way to create shortcut.

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