this isn' showstopper--you can emulate the former start button menu' items with either tiles on the start screen or shortcuts on the desktop taskbar to do soyou might look up these tools in variety of waysby navigating to their corresponding filename in file exploreropened by rightclicking the screen' lower-left corner by searching for their name in the search "charm,opened by pulling down the screen' top-right corner by finding their entry after right-clicking on the start screen to open the all apps displaywhich is reminiscent of the former start button menus by locating their tiles on your start screenif they have any for exampleyou can locate idle by navigating to the file idle py in :\python \libby searching on "idle,by finding idle in "all apps,or by clicking start screen tile if one exists you can find python itself in the same ways (and probably othersthis isn' quite as nice as the original start button menus out of the boxbut it suffices probably the bigger potential downside on windows is that while python runs fine in desktop modeit doesn' yet have an official port to run as start screen style "app that isstandard python does not yet run programs in the winrt (formerly known as metroenvironment--the tile-based media consumption layer that appears first when you start windows and before you can click your way to the desktop this may be temporary statethoughas number of options either already exist or are being actively explored on one frontit' not impossible that python' installer may be enhanced for windows ' nondesktop mode there has already been work on porting python to run as start screen "app,though this may appear as separate installer package due to differences in the underlying libraries (in shortwinrt runs programs in classic "sandboxmodelwith restricted subset of the libraries available normallyon other frontsthe #net-based ironpython system may offer additional windows "appdevelopment optionsand some of python' major gui toolkits such as tkinterwxpythonand pyqt could eventually provide portability to the windows "appsenvironment as well the qt library underlying the latter of these seems to have already showed some progress in this department for nowexisting python software runs fine in windows ' desktop mode unchanged developing or running python code in the start screen "appsenvironment will likely require special handling and platform-specific apis not unlike those required to run python on other tabletand phone-oriented platforms based on google' android and apple' ios (iphone and ipadoperating systems also note that much of this sidebar applies to window but not windows rt the latter does not run third-party desktop mode applications directlyand may need to await sanctioned python installer that supports the winrt "appapi in general appendix ainstallation and configuration