   What is the name of the Windows System Menu button?
  What is the name of the Windows System Menu button?I am talling about the round glass-orb looking object (on a Windows 7 operating system) that appears in the lower left of the screen -- usually -- that you can click on to see the menu selection of programs on your compter.
  It brings up the Start Menu so I'm guessing the Start Menu Button is appropriate. :)   ;  thats not a term I thought would fade quite so soon.   ;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_menu As far as I can tell, it's just known as the Windows "Orb", or the Start Menu Button/Icon.   ;  I've only ever heard it referred to as the "Start button" (never the "Start menu button"). Then again, quite a few people refer to the taskbar notification area as the system tray, so who really knows?   ;Quote:Original post by benryvesso who really knows?Microsoft.[grin](on a more programmery note; according to spy++ it is called "Start" and is a subclassed "Button" type)   ;Quote:Original post by benryvesI've only ever heard it referred to as the "Start button" (never the "Start menu button"). Then again, quite a few people refer to the taskbar notification area as the system tray, so who really knows?It should be called the System Tray because that's an accurate name for it. Notifications pop out of the tray, sure, but it does a lot more than that.I never understood why corporations are so reluctant to adopt popular (and superior) terminology, like Adobe telling people not to use the term "photoshop" as a verb. Uh, guys? That word is one of your biggest assets. You should be pushing to get it into a dictionary...I released a game recently and everyone started calling one of the features 'auto-lock'. If that's what people understand then I'm adopting it. It's called the auto-lock now. People didn't like the auto-lock, so when I put out a sequel I'm going to say I removed the auto-lock. This seems sensible to me.My Microsoft keyboard has a button with the Windows logo and it says "start" so I think Start Button is probably the best term.   ;Quote:Original post by LockePickI never understood why corporations are so reluctant to adopt popular (and superior) terminology, like Adobe telling people not to use the term "photoshop" as a verb. Uh, guys? That word is one of your biggest assets. You should be pushing to get it into a dictionary...At which point they lose their trademark - and people would be telling me to go and "photoshop" something with The GIMP. You should go and "google" trademark law with Microsoft Bing [grin].   ;  I just ran UI Spy and found out that it is called, get this, "Start," and is of type "Button."   ;Quote:Original post by shuma-gorathI just ran UI Spy and found out that it is called, get this, "Start."I'm guessing UI Spy just pulled the label you get through highlighting the orb. ;)