At some point in the past I had my start screen set up so that when I hit the Windows Key and go to the Apps view, I could scroll freely with my mouse wheel and it would only bring me left and right through my installed programs. The default behavior is that scrolling up will bring you to the Live Tiles and scrolling down will do nothing. I cannot find this setting again to save my life and I really hate the Lives Tiles.. Does anybody know where this setting lives?!
Apps View
even existed in 8.0 and if it did it wasn't default view. Can you post the Start Menu Properties window for us?