One of the problems with the Start screen is that is just doesn't show everything. A typical example is Task Scheduler. It is on the Start menu in Windows 7 and you just go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Task Scheduler.
Task Scheduler is not on the Windows 8 Start screen. No problem, just search for it. You can simply start typing on the Start screen to bring up the search screen to find stuff. However, if you type 'task scheduler' then Windows 8 search says that there is no such program.
There are no apps and no settings. Has Task Scheduler been taken out of Windows 8? No it hasn't and you just have to type in 'schedule tasks' instead.
This time there is one item in Settings and selecting this shows an item called Schedule Tasks on the left side of the screen. Click that and it runs Task Scheduler.
This is really odd behaviour and it can be confusing when looking for certain programs and tools that you may have used with earlier versions of Windows. It is unclear why a search for 'Task Scheduler' does not list Task Scheduler, but Windows 8.1 is no better. In fact, it is worse because it lists lots of Bing search results, like weblinks to sites like Wikipedia and others instead of the program you actually want.
Searching for Disk Cleanup (which is now called Disk Clean-up in Windows 8), is slightly better and search returns a result called 'Free up disk space by deleting unnecessary files'. Clicking it runs Disk Clean-up.
It seems that you cannot use Windows 8 search to find applications you know the name of. Instead, you must search for the action you want to perform. So to find Task Scheduler you don't enter its name, you enter 'schedule tasks' and to get Disk Clean-up you enter 'free up disk space'.
So if you can't find something in Windows 8, try typing what you want to do, rather than what something is actually called.
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