Dave, the reason there is such duplication of methods of doing things, as you illustrated, is because we all have our preferred approaches. For years I used a specialized keyboard that didn't have a Windows key, it was built to emulate the IBM Selectric keyboard. They did add the F keys at the top, but I have always been out of the habit of doing anything OTHER than mouse to the Windows start icon on the screen.

So, yes. I had to hunt for the icon.