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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by aswanson on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @05:05PM (#7519006)
Mine has significantly decreased. They made it near impossible to simply open a command prompt.
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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by tedsanders on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @06:42PM (#7519571)
There's an even faster way than sjwright's answer.

Type the windows key, then 'cmd', then press enter.

I really wish Windows 8 did a better job of teaching users, especially the quick ways to launch programs from the keyboard.

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by ygra on Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:40AM (#7523116)
Win+X, C (or A if you need one as admin).
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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by sjwright on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @05:27PM (#7519182)
I have barely touched W8, but have they removed the Win+R run command? My go-to-prompt tends to be "Win+R c m d Enter" on XP and 7 (and "Cmd+Space t e r Enter" on Mac OS X).
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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by voltagex_ on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @07:16PM (#7519735)
On 8, I can do Win+R powershell or Win->type powershell, hit enter and be going even faster.
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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by zackboe on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @06:30PM (#7519519)
It still exists, unchanged.
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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by ditoax on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:05AM (#7521508)
Win+X then C for a Command Prompt. Or Win+X then A for an Administrative Command Prompt.
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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by rcraft on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @05:20PM (#7519123)
WIN + X, C
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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by shitlord on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @10:25PM (#7520530)
Right click the start menu in Windows 8.1. There is a command prompt (and admin command prompt) option.
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