How do I change from Start Screen to Start Menu in Windows 10?
Start Screen and Start Menu change how your desktop looks in Windows 10. Some people like one way and some like the other way. Let’s first look at what each is and then how to change.
Start Menu gives you the desktop like it looked in Windows 7 and before (of course it has changed some along way, but same basic look). With this setup, when you click the Start button (the button in lower left of screen normally) you get a menu listing the programs on your computer in a format using words.
This menu looks like what you had in Windows 7.
Start Screen gives you a desktop that looks like Windows 8 and on your phone and usually on tablets. This has large tiles or icons across the screen which you click to start your various programs. (In the Start Menu, until a recent update of Windows 10, this was presented to the right of the Start Menu also). In this setup you do not have the small icons all over the desktop for the various programs and shortcuts like Start Menu does, but only the large tile which can have smaller pieces in them. This approach is also called Tablet Mode by Microsoft. If you are working using a touch screen (as on a tablet or phone) this one can be easier as larger objects.
You can easily switch between Start Menu and Start Screen (if you are not sure what the other is you can try both). There are two ways to do this switch.
The first way is open Notifications (button on far right of Taskbar, which is the bar across bottom that has the date on it) and you will have a window open on the right of the screen which will have any notifications Windows has sent you. On the bottom is a button that says Tablet Mode. If it is grayed out, you are in Start Menu Mode. If it is blue you are in Start Screen mode. You may not be able to change it if you do not have a touch screen.
The second way is to go to settings and change it. Press the Start button, click the link that looks like a gear (Settings), choose Personalization, click Start in the
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left part of the window, and click Use Start Full Screen to turn on the switch. Now close the windows and you are in Start Screen. Now when you click start you get the full screen of icons; if you have a touch screen it will now be your desktop.
To go back to Start Menu just do those directions and turn off instead of on.
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Georgia may need to dip deep in its reserve fund to balance the budget during the remaining month and a half in the state’s fiscal year amid huge revenue shortfalls prompted by coronavirus, the state’s chief economist said Wednesday, May 13.
Between $1 billion and $1.5 billion in reserves may be needed to plug the gap in the fiscal 2020 budget, close to half of the $2.7 billion total in Georgia’s “rainy-day” reserve fund, said State Economist Jeffrey Dorfman.
Speaking with state lawmakers Wednesday, May 13, Dorfman cautioned that it’s still early in the ballgame to say precisely how much emergency reserve spending may be necessary. The state last month saw a drop in revenue of nearly $1 billion compared to April 2019, and that shortfall is expected to plunge further in the coming months.
“We expect that we’re sort of near the bottom now,” Dorfman said. “But it will take a little while for us to get back to normal.”
With many businesses now reopening, Dorfman said sales tax collections should rebound back close to normal by later this fall. But the first three months of the 2021 fiscal year, starting July 1, could see a brutal 10% drop in revenues, he added.
Dorfman also said the state is likely short about $1.35 billion in income tax receipts delayed until July 15 due to coronavirus. Those revenues should be recouped once collections roll in after the delayed filing deadline, he said.
Members of the Georgia House and Senate Appropriations committees met jointly Wednesday, May 13, in their second online meeting since the 2020 legislative session was suspended in mid-march as concerns mounted over coronavirus.
Their top priority upon resuming the session in about a month is to pass a dramatically reshaped budget for the 2021 fiscal year, before the June 30 deadline to do so.
Already, top budget-writing lawmakers have asked state agencies to start preparing for 14% cuts across the board in next year’s budget, with revenue forecasters expecting a decline of between $3 billion and $4 billion in tax collections in the coming months. Those cuts will almost certainly lead to scaled-back services and furloughs for teachers, social workers and more.