Windows 10: Where is the "go back" indicator in Windows 10 app window?

I finally moved from Windows 7 to 10 and got confronted with this "windows app" thing. How on earth do I navigate in it? I'm not talking about Edge window but other windows-app windows, most importantly "Settings". Now if I'm led to the control panel or file explorer then it's all fine - there you have the full range of buttons and ribbons and menus and location bars at the top - so navigating is cakewalk: I can easily retrace my steps and go back to past or "parent" setting page and so forth. Now I'm stuck in this "app" thing and I'm typing constantly in the search box. That's problematic because you can't always know the name of what you're searching. And for the sake of user friendliness aI also don't want to have to type something in the search box every single time I want to change something in the settings. That is absurd.

In the mean time I did notice that randomly and with no explanation sometimes a temporary go back arrow ("←") pops up on the top left corner of the settings app but then just as it randomly appears it randomly disappears and I can't go back.

Except I do want to go back. I want that "←" to be there permanently. I also want to know if there exists a corresponding go back and other navigation short cut key combinations specific to (non desktop) app windows.

:)

 

Lumia " The Future is Here "

This is a support forum, not a complaints department.

I suggest you directly submit your complaints about hardware to Nokia and software to Microsoft.



Also it often helps to read reviews when switching platforms to make sure it suits your needs. From what you've said the Lumia 820 clearly doesn't suit you.

 

Lumia " The Future is Here "

psychomania: This is a support forum, not a complaints department.



psychomania: Also it often helps to read reviews when switching platforms to make sure it suits your needs. From what you've said the Lumia 820 clearly doesn't suit you.



What RSXforever wrote was a kind of review, that can help other people to judge, if Lumia is the right phone for them.

 

? - i always get the back arrow top left in title bar. can you do a screen shot? (personally i prefer the 'old style' myself with a proper menu bar.)

 

The back arrow in the upper L corner should always be there, if you clicked any tile in 'All settings' window. If you prefer Control panel, just type it in any Settings search box. Or follow any of these Brink tutorials (cr: dalchina) Good Luck

Add Control Panel to Context Menu in Windows 10
Show Control Panel or Settings on Win+X Menu in Windows 10
Add or Remove Control Panel from This PC in Windows 10

 

It just isn't there - I literally opened all settings app, typed mouse, and ended up with what you see in that pic.

Again at moments the arrow temporarily appeared but then disappeared. Maybe it appeared the first or second time I tried it, then subsequently no longer. I have no clue what even the pattern is (if there even is one).

 

Hi,
Go to the lower right corner of the task bar and click on the notifications icon, when open check that the tablet mode button is not turquoise. If it is, turn it off (click on it).
Try a repair install. *Sad

I tried looking for a keyboard combo to help you navigate but nothing yet.

 

No repair install needed.





I'll see how it goes now after this and get back if the problem persists. The log file seemingly indicates system file owner issues that are now supposedly repaired.

 

You appear to have navigated to 'Mouse' by searching for it and going directly to it. If you had opened Settings, clicked Devices then clicked Mouse there will be an arrow, which takes you back to the main Settings page (and no, I don't see a pattern either - logically I'd have expected it to take one step back to Devices).

It is however the way all my machines behave, whatever version of Windows is running. Seems like yours is behaving normally.

 

Open Settings and start at the main page, click on the most appropriate icon and drill down until you find the setting you are looking for, that's how I used to do it.

However, these days I just type a word or two in the Cortana/Search box next to Start, she lists the settings for me so I can go directly to the one I want.

 

If I open Settings, then search in Settings for mouse, I see a back button:



- and the same if I search for mouse settings via Cortana

If you use Classic Shell Start Menu (free) you can do this- which may appeal:




(You can still launch Win 10's start menu with a key combination)

Hmm, amusingly, I have managed to get a back button on Settings, Home, which does nothing!

 

I'm very curious about that - what's "classic shell start menu (free)"? Do I have it or do I get it?

 

It's a program- search, download, install...

 

Does it help me in one thing? Namely the fact that in Windows 7, I used to be able to set a certain folder view and set that to be the same for all subfolders under it (not all folders everywhere but only that particular folder and its subs). It's scandalous that that is no longer possible in Windows 10 explorer