{"id":123,"date":"2013-10-07T14:46:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2013\/10\/07\/visual-studio-2013-shortcuts-in-windows-8-1\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:34:08","slug":"visual-studio-2013-shortcuts-in-windows-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/visual-studio-2013-shortcuts-in-windows-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2013 shortcuts in Windows 8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8.1 made a change for RTM \u2013 as some <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/subscriptions\/downloads\/\">MSDN Subscribers<\/a> might\u2019ve noticed \u2013 where newly installed applications\u2019 shortcuts are not immediately visible on the Start menu. They are still installed and indexed, but you need to either swipe down on your touch screen or click the down arrow as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/10\/7028.Screenshot_thumb_4D5BA4FA-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15709\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/10\/7028.Screenshot_thumb_4D5BA4FA-1.png\" alt=\"Image 7028 Screenshot thumb 4D5BA4FA\" width=\"240\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the Start menu, you can also just begin typing. Application shortcuts \u2013 along with files and settings \u2013 are displayed matching the text you typed. Just start typing \u201cVisual Studio\u201d and you\u2019ll see a list of applications you can launch.<\/p>\n<p>This behavior is the same for modern and desktop applications, putting you in control of what gets posted to your Start menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8.1 made a change for RTM \u2013 as some MSDN Subscribers might\u2019ve noticed \u2013 where newly installed applications\u2019 shortcuts are not immediately visible on the Start menu. They are still installed and indexed, but you need to either swipe down on your touch screen or click the down arrow as shown below. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Windows 8.1 made a change for RTM \u2013 as some MSDN Subscribers might\u2019ve noticed \u2013 where newly installed applications\u2019 shortcuts are not immediately visible on the Start menu. They are still installed and indexed, but you need to either swipe down on your touch screen or click the down arrow as shown below. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}