---
title: "Start screen"
url: "https://docs.4hse.com/guides/user-preferences/start-screen"
description: "How to choose whether 4HSE opens the Home or the desktop at startup."
---

# Start screen

4HSE has two screens, both described in [Getting Started with 4HSE](/guides/first-steps/first-access):

-   the **Home**, with the dashboards and shortcuts related to your activities;
-   the **desktop**, with the project icons and the windows.

Both are always available, and you switch between them from the **Start** button at the bottom left of the taskbar. This preference only sets which of the two opens at startup.

## Changing the start screen

[Section titled “Changing the start screen”](#changing-the-start-screen)

From the user menu, open **“User preferences”** and go to **Start screen**, where a single click on the desktop preview or on the Home preview saves the setting, which applies from the next startup.

![start screen](/_astro/user-preferences-start-screen.DapHV5OL_Z16LkUC.webp)

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