Windows 8 Start Screen Weirdness

burns · 26 Oct 2012 at 16:03

Sorry for the vague title but I don't know how else to describe this. Generally I'm loving Windows 8, but there is one thing that is annoying me.

Say I'm happily working away in remote desktop. Then I need to connect to another machine so I press the windows key and type remote. Search finds remote desktop straight away, so far so good. But when I hit enter it just takes me to the running instance of remote desktop. That's not what I wanted

Has anyone found away to make this work as in W7? The same thing seems to happen with all programs, notepad and paint for example. It's driving me mad having to use the mouse just to open a new instance of a program...

Craig321 · 26 Oct 2012 at 16:46

Shift + Enter will open another instance, alternatively just middle click or shift + click the icon at the bottom in the task bar which will also launch another instance.

burns · 29 Oct 2012 at 12:45

Craig321 said:
Shift + Enter will open another instance, alternatively just middle click or shift + click the icon at the bottom in the task bar which will also launch another instance.

Thanks, I knew I had to missing something.

Mr-White · 29 Oct 2012 at 13:53

You can also type "mstsc" at the run command

MW