What do you call the button in the bottom left of Windows 10?

[+Warwagon MVC]

What do you guys refer to the button at the bottom left of Windows 10 as? Do you call it the start button? I call it the start button because I don't really know what else to call it.

 

But when ever I call it the start button (Click the start button) to my customers they never know what the ###### i'm talking about. I have to refer to it as the white flag in the bottom left

 

Though its the same exact spot the "Start button" has been for 20 years!!

[Neowinian]

I've always called it start. Just seems that they took to the text saying 'start' away in favour of the windows icon, as it looks better.

[GrayW]

Yeah I call it the "Start Button" too. Although when the inevitable what question comes, it's the "Button in the bottom left".

[+Warwagon MVC]

  On 15/12/2015 at 18:15, Grayski said:

Yeah I call it the "Start Button" too. Although when the inevitable what question comes, it's the "Button in the bottom left".

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Most of the time it is but yes some time it isn't.

[Dot Matrix]

Start. What else would you call it?

[StrikedOut]

Same here, Start button and yep, some of the people I support have no idea what I am talking about.

[Noir Angel]

Correct terminology would be the start button, but for the sake of simplicity, I'd probably just refer to it as the home button as it performs much the same function. That said, I know few people who own Windows phones, I haven't yet had to set one up for anyone.

[Ryster]

I call it the Start button, only because it actually had the word "Start" on it for multiple versions of the OS. Just because the word is not shown any more in later iterations, doesn't make it any less the start button if you ask me.

[BajiRav]

Start button.

[+Warwagon MVC]

Me: "Click Start"

Customer "Where's that at?

[barnacles]

I usually use the term "Start Button", but if anyone is confused, I usually say "press the Windows key on your keyboard"(or Command key for BootCampers!)

[Mando]

i usually just say enter start menu.  

[devHead]

  On 15/12/2015 at 19:29, warwagon said:

Me: "Click Start"

Customer "Where's that at?

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This is usually asked by the morons who have 100 shortcuts on their Desktop and don't even comprehend the idea of the Start menu for launching applications.  

[Mando]

  On 16/12/2015 at 13:18, devHead said:

This is usually asked by the morons who have 100 shortcuts on their Desktop and don't even comprehend the idea of the Start menu for launching applications.  

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and dont forget the lovely end losers who get mixed up with WALLPAPER and SCREENSAVER  

 

oh and a new thing im seeing, more and more laptop users covering their webcams with a post it note, just in case lol that cracks me up every time! 

[+Warwagon MVC]

  On 16/12/2015 at 13:18, devHead said:

This is usually asked by the morons who have 100 shortcuts on their Desktop and don't even comprehend the idea of the Start menu for launching applications.  

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One person only had 3 icons on the desktop

 

  On 16/12/2015 at 10:21, barnacles said:

I usually use the term "Start Button", but if anyone is confused, I usually say "press the Windows key on your keyboard"(or Command key for BootCampers!)

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In my experience if they don't know what or where the start button is, then they REALLY have no fracking idea they have a windows key on the keyboard. Hell most of the people who even know they have a start button, don't know about the key on the keyboard.

 

[+John. Subscriber¹]

Always called it the start button since '95

[shockz]

Used to call it the Start Button, but just refer to it as Start since the Windows XP days. If they get confused I'll say click the start button at the bottom left corner of the screen.

[MikeChipshop Member]

I call it the Start button. But if i'm explaining it to some one less computer literate i refer to it as the "Windows Logo" or Windows Icon".

[MikeChipshop Member]

  On 16/12/2015 at 15:27, warwagon said:

In my experience if they don't know what or where the start button is, then they REALLY have no fracking idea they have a windows key on the keyboard. Hell most of the people who even know they have a start button, don't know about the key on the keyboard.

 

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It takes 5 seconds to ask them to look though doesn't it though?

[Daedroth]

'Start' or 'Start Button' depending on which one comes to my mind first.

[+Warwagon MVC]

  On 16/12/2015 at 15:35, MikeChipshop said:

 

It takes 5 seconds to ask them to look though doesn't it though?

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Might as well just have them look on the bottom left of their screen if I have to start explaining things to them

 

Plus when I tell them to look on their keyboard they never see it. So I have to start asking them starting in the bottom left of their keyboard to see if they see the CTRL ... then whats next to that ... ALT... ok... what's next to that.....umm.. it's just a picture of a flag .....

 

THATS THE KEY I WAS TALKING ABOUT!!

 

While i'm venting, It also drives me nuts when a customer asks me if the URL I have them type in the address bar has any spaces? ... *Face palm*

 

Or when I have them press a key combo on the keyboard and they say ... "Ok, lemme put the phone down"

 

Then the one I get all the time, when they land on www.helpme.net ... I tell them "Ok, It should ask you for your name and support key. You can just ignore the name and just go over to were it says support key.

 

Then they say "What do you want me to put in for name... Yours or mine?"

[MikeChipshop Member]

  On 16/12/2015 at 15:41, warwagon said:

Might as well just have them look on the bottom left of their screen if I have to start explaining things to them

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  On 15/12/2015 at 18:23, warwagon said:

Most of the time it is but yes some time it isn't.

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[+Warwagon MVC]

  On 16/12/2015 at 15:51, MikeChipshop said:

 

 

 

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by sometime I mean very rarely.

[zhangm Supervisor]

Start, or the Windows button. But usually I just tell people to hit the Windows key on their keyboard to launch it.

[MikeChipshop Member]

  On 16/12/2015 at 15:55, warwagon said:

by sometime I mean very rarely.

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I see, so you can use that excuse when you want, but if someone else points out you've already use it, suddenly it's not viable, right, gotcha.