There is a smart button genius'. It's that little button next to the Alt Key on the left side of your keyboard. :^))
Or take yur mouse to the lower left corner of the screen and the Start "button" will pop up.
P.S.- The resulting screen after taking either of these routes IS the Start Menu
I have a customer who got a new computer that has Windows 8. He has to learn how to use the computer all over again.
that is not a start menu, it is a metro menu for a phone.
a start menu has a windows logo and you click on it an a little menu pops up a start menu is not a menu that takes up the whole screen and is unpleasing for the eye, just my 2 cents worth.