Where did my settings app go

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Recent Items for applications (Jump Lists) are located in the application shortcut, just like Windows 7 had from the start menu. I have mixed feelings about this, but irrelevantly, lets show you how to get some of your recent items functionality back. Because of this you most likely will find yourself pinning your most-used apps to the taskbar just as you did with apps to the start menu in Windows 7. Primarily you will find that your pinned start menu items are now functionally mimicked in the taskbar pinning.

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Not to fret though, there is some of this functionality still available to us, however the focus to use it is a bit different. All well and good for mobile implications, devices, and Modern UI apps, but it leaves the dedicated desktop/laptop users with legacy applications longing for the old ways. Possibly another may be the fact that Windows 8 Modern UI Style applications ( formerly known as Metro) are meant to be “isolated” from the rest of the system. There are a couple reasons for this with the most obvious being that we don’t have a Start Menu anymore. While the recent items list in Windows 7 (and prior) was useful, it is no longer available for Windows 8. I come across many people that have been asking me where the recent items list has gone in Windows 8.