Walt Mossberg's Windows 8 Review

Re:Walt Mossberg's Windows 8 Review by HardyLeung on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @03:02AM (#4663437)

> One other subtle thing I miss from Windows 7 is that shortcuts to apps like Notepad will start multiple instances of the app. For some unfathomable reason, the Windows 8 start screen always goes to the first instance of the app if you try to start Notepad or the like multiple times. That would be OK but I can't find any way to override it and easily start multiple instances. Start8 brings back the old behavior here.

You can do that by right clicking the icon on the bottom taskbar and click the app to start. It did drive me crazy until I figured this out.

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Re:Walt Mossberg's Windows 8 Review by gman99 on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @03:58AM (#4663541)

Does middle click not work? It does in Win7 (and Ubuntu/Unity too) and I'd be very surprised if they removed that feature

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Re:Walt Mossberg's Windows 8 Review by Stratoscope on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @04:49AM (#4663655)

Interesting... Thanks for the tip!

Middle click does work on my Windows 8 start screen; it always launches a new instance.

It doesn't do anything on my Windows 7 machine's start menu, though. But that's no problem because left click does what I want.

Testing a bit more... Now I see! In Windows 7, middle click works on the taskbar but not in the Start menu. In Windows 8, it works on both.

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