Windows 8 never reached the success of Windows 7. Expectations for Windows 10, however, are so high that Microsoft even skipping a version number. Here are 13 tips that will make the leap into the unknown a little more comfortable.
1. Start menu
After the Windows 8 Start menu had been removed, there was a storm of protest. In Windows 10 is thus again the Start menu combined with a Metro Screen as in Windows 8, but in a menu format. On the left you have the most used programs and hibernation button, shut down and restart. In the right side of the Start menu contains the tiles for apps to read the news, view photos and listen to music. You can Metro Part snap to the side to increase or decrease, and when you click the double arrow at the top right, the home screen semitransparent comes into full screen width.
2. Shortcut start
It is handy that you can call up the screen startup screen with the Windows key. This option makes you by clicking right on the taskbar so you can open the properties of the taskbar and the Start menu. Open the “Navigation” tab and check the option to “Start to appear on the active display when I press the Windows key.”
3. Expand Start Menu
Of course, determine which programs you want to get yourself a place in the start menu. Before you click, right-click the icon or the alias of the program that you want to add. In the contextual menu, choose “Pin to Start” command. In the adjusted start menu, you can retrospectively remove the tile from the right and the command ‘From Start loosening’.
4. Multiple desktops
Those that have previously wanted to work with multiple desktops, had to rely on external tools. In Windows 10 is that option under the ‘Task View’ button. If you click on, appears in the lower right corner of the desktop with a plus sign ‘New Desktop button. Click on it so you get a virgin empty new desktop. So you can divide your computer activities across different workspaces. You read your mail on the desktop one, you’re working in Word and open the web browser on your desktop 2 pictures edit your on desktop three, and so on …
5. Dragging programs
Working with different desktops you become so accustomed quickly that you would never miss a few days. Suppose you work in desktop one, while a few minutes considering that this window better desktop 3 would fall. Then click on the “Task View” button so you can see the overview of the active desktops will then drag the window you want to move to desktop 3.
6. Search
The new search feature delves simultaneously on the Internet and on the hard drive. To filter the results, use the button ‘My Stuff’ and then you will only see the results on the hard disk and in OneDrive. Click on “Web”, you get only the results found on the Internet. The search engine suggestions will be opened in the Bing search app, thus trying to take Microsoft competitor Google wind out of the sails.
7. Aero Snap
Windows 8 could all application windows ‘magnetic’ stick to the left or the right so that they take up half of the desktop. Aero Snap also works in Windows 10, but better. When a window snaps left or right, the other active programs in miniature windows are displayed on the other half of the desktop. To a desktop or laptop to ‘get’ a window on the side you use the keyboard shortcuts’ Win + left arrow “or” Win + Right Arrow. “
8. Give your opinion
Microsoft Edge was developed as the successor to Internet Explorer in Windows 10. When you open an internet suggestion from the central search, which will immediately appear in Edge. Microsoft is obviously very interested in the feedback from its users to refine this browser. When a function of a website is not like working right, you can report this by clicking on the Smiley button.
9. Windows Explorer
The Windows Explorer is also put in a new guise. Naturally, in the left column still the components’ This PC ‘,’ Network ‘and’ OneDrive. At the top you now also find the Quick Access that contains the links to the most frequently used links and locations. You can compare this with the favorites of the past, except that Windows itself adds folders to the Quick Access using your computer. Folders you use often will appear here automatically, in addition you can also itself be pinned folders via the button “Add to Quick Access. Sit there a folder in which you want to remove from the list, then choose from the Right ‘Remove From Quick Access command.
10. Forecasts and weather maps
The default home screen are also some tiles that bring sustained live information, such as the new Weather app. This newcomer looks beautiful. First grant you that the app can find your location and then you see the extended weather forecast the next seven days. Under the tab “Maps” is the detailed information through animated satellite images. And “Historical weather ‘you get the monthly averages and records of locations around the world
11. Always up to date
When you’re on a touch screen inside swipet or when you right down to a normal screen on the tekstballontje button, the menu appears Notifications. Here you can read for example, calendar appointments and security alerts. Moreover, at the bottom of a set of buttons, for example to connect media devices or to work in tablet mode. That tablet mode besides looks also on a desktop computer very nice. Who has a Windows Phone, you will notice that the messages synchronize with all appliances.
12. Calendar and Time
If you click on the taskbar on the time display you will arrive at a convenient mini calendar and digital clock. Click the top button “Additional Clocks” then opens the panel “Alarms and Clock ‘where you can control how and when you want to be woken. This is also the place to view world clocks, use the stopwatch, or set the timer.
13. Toolbar
Fans of a minimalist interface get it on their hips of Windows 8, but also in Windows 10 Start menu looks overloaded. Of course you can in the start menu to uninstall the apps to then make the menu smaller so you get pretty close to the form of Windows 7. However, if you still sober than you can make a new start menu toolbar. Right click on the taskbar and choose Toolbars, “” New Toolbar “. In the ‘New Toolbar’ you in ‘Map’ the following path: C: Program Data Microsoft Windows Start Menu Programs, and click Select Folder. Next you have in your taskbar a new toolbar. Click on the double arrow in order to use the most minimalist starter.
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