The above is a quote from a blog about the new Release Preview of Win-8 that came down the pipe yesterday. And I have some good news if you'd like to make yourself a very handy 'work-around'.....
After you hit your 'Ctrl' to bring up the Log-in screen after the nice picture and
the time and date thing first appears, and after you've logged in, and are now confronted by the Start page full of the patchwork of Apps tiles, look for the one for 'Desktop' (usually somewhere near the left side) and click on that to put up your desktop, that old familiar former starting point.
While it's still empty and there's plenty of open spaces, do a right-click on it, and from the menu which appears, choose 'New' and then from its menu, choose
'Shortcut'. We're going to make a couple of shortcuts here. One for 'Reboot' and one for 'Shutdown', and here's how:-
After you click on 'Shortcut', you get a little window asking for the location of the item. In there, type as follows, using the exact spacing I'm using here:-
C:\Windows\System32\Shutdown.exe -s -f -t 00
Then, click next for the next window, asking for name for it. The name in this case is Shutdown. The line of code you just typed into the address box is telling Windows to shutdown, and force-close any open programs, and to do that with a time delay of 00 seconds. There's one empty space between each of those commands in the line. While you're doing all that, a new shortcut icon will be created on your desktop for it.
Now that you're finished creating that one, do another similar one using the same process as before, but in the address line this time, you type in the following:- C:\Windows\System32\Shutdown.exe -r -f -t 00
The name for this one is Reboot. Now you will have two new shortcuts on your desktop, one named Shutdown and the other named Reboot. Clicking on those will immediately begin either a computer shutdown or a reboot. You will no longer have to worry about where the Start button went, because you can use
your own shortcuts. If you don't like those generic icons with them, you can change those by right-clicking the shortcut, choosing "change icon" and then
pick out another from the little display that will be presented by Windows. Or if you have a collection of your own favorites, you can use those. You can see mine in the lower left of the screenshot here.
After you have the two shortcuts on your desktop, you can also copy those onto your Windows 8 Start screen as tiles along with the others, so that you
will have them accessible from either the desktop or Start screen. In Win-8,
these can be on both places at the same time without a problem. And once you have that done, you can reboot or shut down from either one of those.
And that missing Start Button isn't such a loss now.....
Here you can see the new shortcuts as tiles on the Start window. The easy way to get them there is to right-click on each shortcut on your desktop, and from the menu which appears, choose (and click on) "Pin to Start". The shortcut is then pinned to the Start window as a new tile. This can be dragged to a different location on the screen if you wish to rearrange tiles. The original shortcut icon will remain on your Desktop, so it is now in two places, but you can only access them one at a time, so it won't create a conflict. This is one new feature of Windows 8 that I like, but it isn't sufficiently well explained.
It takes a bit of work to dig up this information. That may be easier when they finish writing all the Help notes for Windows 8. Right now, those are not complete yet, and you're on your own for some of this stuff. And that's why I'm babbling on about it here.
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