Holding the Power Button Down Does Not Turn Off the Computer. The proper way to shut down a computer is by pressing the Windows "Start" button and selecting "Shut Down" from the available options.

If your Windows PC won't start, don't panic (yet). Here are some troubleshooting steps to take when your computer fails to boot correctly.

In System Settings, you will be able to define what the power button does. Under When I press the power button option, you can define what it does when the computer is running on Battery and when ...

Motherboard won't start with power button - only with Green and Black cable ATX trick Cen100 Apr 21, 2010 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

Patrick Marshall answers your tech questions. This week's topics cover the Start button on monitor screens failing to function and an alert sound on a PC that's becoming more frequent.

Windows Blue could restore the Start button, boot straight to the desktop "Windows 8.1" may let you pretend that the Start screen never happened.

Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year.

Microsoft has tried to grab the headlines with the latest incarnation of its desktop OS, sporting a repositioned start button and updated icons.

Do you use the Start button in Windows? If not, then you're supposedly the reason Microsoft got rid of it in Windows 8. Chaitanya Sareen, principal program manager at Microsoft, told U.K. computer ...