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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by steve-howard on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @05:42PM (#7519274)
Over RDP, I'd just use the Windows+C shortcut. Haven't been a huge fan of "Modern UI," but you can learn to work with it.

Disclaimer: MSFT employee, opinions my own.

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by spacelizard on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @08:45PM (#7520105)
That doesn't work if you're RDPing from another Win8 machine, the local OS swallows the keybind. What you actually need to press is Alt + Home or Alt + Delete (good luck figuring that out without doing a web search).

I'm actually really confused why this is, it seems to be such an important use case. I would not be surprised if they didn't even test WS2012.

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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 by wila on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @11:59PM (#7520858)
You can customize your RDP settings on how it behaves with key binding. You can set it local or remote.

Before opening the connection, click "Show options" -> Local Resources tab -> Apply Windows key combinations.

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