When clicked, the start menu looks very much like what you see in Windows 7 with shortcuts to recently used programs, the Control Panel, including the familiar options to lock, shutdown, hibernate ...

According to Ford, the push-button start module is too close to other controls, ... completely relocate the MKC’s push-button start control panel. ...

To add Control Panel items to the start menu, you have to create its shortcut on your desktop and then drag and drop it into the start button (orb). UPDATE: ...

The original Start button returns in Windows 10, but you also get this extra menu if you know where to look. ... the Control Panel and the Task Manager much easier. ...

In fairness, the Windows 8.1 Start button isn’t entirely useless. Users can right click on the button to view desktop-specific options, such as the task manager, control panel, file explorer ...

Minor graphical updates and performance improvements aside, Windows has fundamentally been the same operating system since 1995 — a desktop, familiar icons, the start button, control panel and ...