Managing applications on Windows 8

Windows 8 is an interesting operating system, dramatically changing the navigation we were doing so far with previous Windows. The desktop then turns into an application within the ecosystem more Windows 8, a risky idea and can generate more of a headache when used to the new system interface. In addition, Microsoft has decided to leave aside the Windows Start button , which has created much controversy. Anyway, the new interface has some advantages in managing the items of equipment. We tell you how to manage applications on Windows 8 through the interface Metro.

The management of applications through Windows 8 is performed in a simple, far more than Windows 7 once we have become accustomed. To enter the menu of any application just go to the main interface of the system and press the right mouse button outside of the bricks. In the lower right, the option to view all apps. If we click we will list all available applications in the system in alphabetical order. On the left of the screen will be the apps, contacts and bookmarks we have anchored to the main interface and on the right we will all desktop applications and system tools organized by groups of applications (for example, all Acer apps placed under the label of the brand).

It is likely that the number of applications is very large. To search a particular group of applications just press on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner and then click on the appropriate group. When handling the applications, we have a number of options that appear when we press the right mouse button on one of them (if we start an application, you just have to click the left mouse button). In the lower part a series of icons appear with the explanation below.

For apps, the choices that we can find are: "Pin to Start" or "Unpin from Start" to dock or undock the main inerfaz Access to the system and "Uninstall" to uninstall. In the case of some preinstalled apps removal is not possible, as in the case of application store. For desktop applications, the options increase. Besides the possibility of anchoring and unpin the application interface and uninstall Metro, we also have the option to dock or undock the tool bar to start the desktop ("Pin to Taskbar" or "Unpin from Taskbar"). A through "Open new window" we activate the program on the desktop and "Run as administrator" we do with administrator permissions.

Finally, we have the option to open the folder containing the program with "Open file location". If this way of managing the program does not convince you, you can always use the uninstall program manager for desktop applications. To do this, press the right mouse button when the cursor is at the bottom left of the screen and then on "Programs and features".

To carry out this article we have used a laptop Acer Aspire 8951G Ethos , one of the most powerful laptops on the market and has an Intel Core i7-2630QM with four processing cores and a power of 2 GHz per core . This team also has 16 GB of RAM and a Nvidia GeForce 2 GB of dedicated memory.