Patrick Marshall answers your tech questions. This week's topics cover the Start button on monitor screens failing to function and an alert sound on a PC that's becoming more frequent.

Windows Blue could restore the Start button, boot straight to the desktop "Windows 8.1" may let you pretend that the Start screen never happened.

Microsoft wants you to share content/items more frequently, so it's now adding the "Share" button everywhere, including the Start menu and even the taskbar.

Do you use the Start button in Windows? If not, then you're supposedly the reason Microsoft got rid of it in Windows 8. Chaitanya Sareen, principal program manager at Microsoft, told U.K. computer ...