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Contents
Chapter 1: Windows 10 at a Glance ...... 5 Start Menu ...... 5 Desktop ...... 6 Taskbar ...... 6 Cortana ...... 6 Task View ...... 6 File Explorer ...... 7 OneDrive ...... 7 Universal Apps ...... 7 Windows Store ...... 7 Action Center ...... 8 Microsoft Edge ...... 8 Other built-in apps ...... 8 Settings...... 9 Continuum and Tablet mode ...... 9 Windows Hello ...... 9 Chapter 2: Apps ...... 10 Tiles ...... 10 Live Tile ...... 10 Modify Tiles ...... 11 Tile Groups ...... 12 Native Apps ...... 12 Settings...... 12 All Apps List ...... 12 View or Close Apps ...... 13 Chapter 3: Start Menu ...... 14 Resize ...... 14 Pin and Unpin Tiles ...... 14 Resize Tiles ...... 15 Turn Off Live Tile Updates ...... 15 Change the Start Menu (and Taskbar) Color ...... 16 Pin Items from the Left Side of the Start Menu ...... 16
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Look Like Windows 7 ...... 17 Computer Status ...... 17 Searching ...... 17 Settings...... 17 Chapter 4: Task View ...... 18 Access Task View ...... 18 Snap ...... 18 Multiple Desktops ...... 19 Create New Desktop ...... 19 Chapter 5: Cortona ...... 20 Accessing ...... 20 From the taskbar ...... 20 From the keyboard ...... 20 With your voice ...... 21 From Start ...... 21 Cortana Notebook ...... 21 Chapter 6: Edge ...... 22 Settings...... 23 Reading View ...... 23 Web Note ...... 23 Chapter 7: App Store ...... 24 Installing Apps ...... 25 Creating a Microsoft Account ...... 25 Find an app or game after you’ve downloaded it ...... 28 Uninstall an App ...... 28 Purchase an app or game...... 29 Manage your account and payment options ...... 29 Find apps and games you’ve already purchased or downloaded ...... 29 Chapter 8: Notifications ...... 30 Handle App Notifications ...... 31 Action Center ...... 31 Lock Screen ...... 33 Chapter 9: Tablet Mode ...... 34
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Activate manually ...... 35 Settings...... 35 Chapter 10: Screenshot ...... 36 Capture the entire screen ...... 36 Capture the active window ...... 36 Other screenshot notes ...... 36
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Chapter 1: Windows 10 at a Glance Windows 10 combines the best of Windows 7 with the best of Windows 8, providing a familiar upgrade experience for virtually all users. But Windows 10 also comes with a lot of new and upgraded features as well. Many new features are designed to improve the desktop experience and draw in business users who were turned off by Windows 8's tile-based UI and the initial removal of the Start menu. Here’s a quick peek at the major new and improved features in Windows 10, with more in depth details in the following chapters.
Start Menu In Windows 10, the Start menu makes a triumphant return, providing users of traditional PCs with the experience they expect, updated for the modern age with live tiles that provide at-a-glance information. Windows 10's new Start menu combines the Windows 7-like application list and the live tiles interface from Windows 8's Start screen. Windows-8 style "modern" apps (now called "universal apps") can run within a window on the desktop, like standard desktop programs.
The Windows 10 Start menu is also configurable, so that it can behave like the Windows 8 Start screen if you’d prefer. And if you use a tablet, 2-in-1 PC or other touch-first device, the full-screen Start experience will be enabled by default.
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Desktop Windows 10 steps back from the dueling user interfaces of Windows 8, which offered both a desktop environment and a strangely separate modern environment for mobile apps. Now, the desktop is at the focus again and all apps—desktop applications, web applications, universal apps, whatever—run on the desktop. Taskbar The Windows 10 taskbar features all of the functionality you know from Windows 7 and 8 and includes new Cortana (search) and Task View buttons, plus an enhanced system tray with new functionality that includes Action Center (for system and app notifications and certain quick actions) and access to the Touch keyboard.
Cortana Microsoft’s digital personal assistant makes her way to Windows 10, providing searching capabilities, reminders, and more. And speak to Cortana, too, a new hands-free way to interact with your PC.
Task View Because so few users are familiar with the multitasking features in Windows—ALT + TAB, for example— Microsoft has created a new Task View experience that makes it easier than ever to find the open apps and windows on your PC. Task View is also the gateway to a new power-user feature called virtual desktops, which lets you group related applications and windows into discrete desktop environments.
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File Explorer File Explorer gets a nice user interface polish for Windows 10, while retaining all of the performance and reliability improvements that Microsoft first added in Windows 8. This interface is used to access the documents and other files on your PC, on network-attached drives and other PCs on your home network, and even cloud-based services such as OneDrive and Dropbox
OneDrive OneDrive integration in Windows 10 isn’t just about files: if you sign-in with a Microsoft account, you can sync various settings between your Windows 10 PCs and devices too. These include your desktop theme, passwords, browser settings and more. Universal Apps Microsoft has significantly updated the Modern app platform it created for Windows 8, retaining all of its benefits—security, reliability, and ease of use—while fixing its problems. Now called universal apps, these applications run on the desktop next to other apps and can be used windowed or fullscreen. As important, they can be tailored to run on other Windows 10 devices, including phones, Surface Hub, HoloLens and even Xbox One. That means that you can buy a universal app on your Windows 10 PC and use it for free on other platforms now. Windows Store Windows Store debuted in Windows 8 as well, and it gets a big update in Windows 10, offering access to universal apps, of course, but also music, TV shows and movies. It’s your one- stop-shop for Windows 10 content.
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Action Center The Charms menu has been replaced with the Action Center, a sidebar that provides notifications and contains buttons for common tasks. Microsoft introduced a notification system for Windows and apps in Windows 8 but it didn’t provide a way to manage notifications so that you could view and act on notifications you missed. Well, the circle is now complete in Windows 10, which features Action Center, the new notification center. From this handy interface, you can manage your notifications and access quick settings like rotation lock, screen brightness, and more.
Microsoft Edge After 20 years of Internet Explorer, Microsoft has finally pulled the plug and now provides a thoroughly modern web browser called Microsoft Edge in Windows 10. Edge provides Cortana integration so you can find information and learn more about restaurants in particular, a reading list for saving articles for later, a fantastic Reading view for removing ads and other distractions from web articles, and a unique Web Note feature that lets you write notes and draw, and highlight and clip items from web pages.
And if you are an Internet Explorer fan, no worries: Microsoft still includes the latest Internet Explorer version in Windows 10 too.
Other built-in apps Microsoft provides a basic Photos app for viewing the photos on your PC and in OneDrive, and for copying pictures from a digital camera or phone to your PC. Microsoft’s Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps have been thoroughly overhauled and renamed. Groove Music will let you stream your own music from OneDrive or, with a Groove Music Pass subscription, from Windows Store. And Movies & TV lets you watch videos from your own PC or from Windows Store. Most of the fantastic MSN apps that first debuted in Windows 8—News, Weather, Sports, and Money—carry forward to Windows 10 as updated universal apps. As always, these apps provide useful and entertaining content with beautiful presentations. With Windows 10, Microsoft is finally serious about PC gaming again, and the Xbox app provides access to all of your Xbox Live profile information and friends, and helps you stream games from an Xbox One to your PC. (You can also take screenshots and videos while playing games in Windows 10 and share them with your friends.) Finally, Microsoft now offers free Office apps for Windows 10—Outlook Mail and Calendar, plus People and OneNote—that provide touch-friendly access to the most powerful productivity offerings on PCs. While these apps are aimed at tablets for the most part, they work just fine on traditional PCs too. And if you have an Office 365 subscription, you can also use the Office Mobile versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint too.
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Settings Microsoft has significantly enhanced the PC Settings experience in Windows 10 and renamed it to Settings. Now, you can find any options you need in a single place, and there are links to legacy Control Panel interfaces when needed.
Continuum and Tablet mode For those with modern, touch-first devices like tablets and 2-in-1 PCs, Windows 10 offers a special Tablet mode that makes all apps run full-screen so you can use them more easily with touch. Tablet mode makes it easier to operate without a keyboard or mouse.
And thanks to an underlying technology called Continuum, Windows 10 can even shift automatically between Tablet mode and the normal display mode when needed. For example, you might use a Surface tablet in Tablet mode when used as a tablet, but when you connect a Type Cover, the device can switch automatically to the normal display mode so you can be more productive with its keyboard and touchpad.
Windows Hello With Windows 10, Microsoft is taking the first steps towards our post-passwords future and augmenting previous sign-in technologies—including full passwords, PINs and picture passwords— with new biometric sign-in types. Collectively called Windows Hello, these new sign-ins include facial, iris, and fingerprint scanning, and they work instantly. The bad news? You need new, compatible hardware to use this feature.
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Chapter 2: Apps With the universal apps platform, Microsoft has created a complete app ecosystem that includes a Store app for finding, downloading, and buying apps and games. And in Windows 10, you can also use Store to find music, TV shows and movies.
Windows apps now launch in resizable windows, just like desktop applications, that you can drag-and- move to other areas of the desktop environment as you please. Their title bars also have the familiar trio of Minimize, Maximize/Restore Down, and Close buttons at their upper-right corners.
Windows 10 comes with a default set of live tiles in the Start menu—those large icons that populate the right-hand side of the Start menu—such as the Weather, Calendar, Mail, and Photos apps, as well as the Edge browser. But you can add or remove apps in the tiles pane. There is an additional chapter in this guide focused just on the Start menu.
Tiles Tiles are the apps found on your Start screen. As in Windows 8/8.1, clicking a Tile launches its corresponding Windows app or desktop application. To move a Tile, you click on and drag it to another spot on the layout. Right-click on a Tile and a small menu pops open which gives you options: Unpin from Start, Resize, Turn live tile on (or off), Pin to taskbar, and (if available) Uninstall.
Live Tile Live tiles show live updates for certain applications. For example a weather app may have a Live option where you will see real time updates of weather information without Live Tile opening the app. These Live updates can be turned off by right clicking on the tile and choosing Turn Live Tile Off.
Not every app takes full advantage of live tiles, so you won’t necessarily get at-a-glance information from every icon in the live tiles pane.
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Modify Tiles
Move a Tile Step 1: Press and hold the tile you want to move. Step 2: Drag the tile where you want to place it and release.
Resize a tile Step 1: Press and hold or right-click the tile you want to resize. Step 2: Tap Resize. Step 3: Choose the size you want.
Add to Start menu Step 1: Press and hold or right-click. the tile you want to resize. Step 2: Tap Pin to Start.
Remove from Start menu Step 1: Press and hold or right-click. the tile you want to resize. Step 2: Tap Unpin from Start.
Most Used Apps You can also click and drag a program from the left side of the Start menu in the Most Used section, to the right side (aka the Tiled side), and it will appear among the Tiles. This action will remove the program from the Most used list.
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Tile Groups You can also group your tiles as you please. You can create a group for games, for example, or one for productivity apps, communication apps, design apps...it’s up to you.
To create a new group, click and drag a live tile to an empty space in the Start menu’s live tile pane until a horizontal bar appears (the bar’s color will vary depending on your accent color). Once the bar appears, release the mouse button, and Windows will create a new group containing that app.
You can name your groups, too. Mouse over the empty space above each group, then click Name group once the text appears. Give the group a name, then press the Enter key. While you’re at it, go ahead and rearrange your groups by dragging the drag thumb that appears (look for the two horizontal lines that appear near the right-hand edge of the group's name bar). Native Apps Windows 8 provides you with a variety of apps already installed on your computer. Browse through these apps and become familiar with what is there. You can always remove or add similar apps in the Store, if you don’t like the ones provided.
Some of these apps include Mail, Internet Explorer, Calendar, SkyDrive, Sports, Travel, Reader and so on.
Settings In fact, it may be initially difficult to distinguish between Windows apps and desktop applications, but one clue is that most Windows apps have a settings button (an icon with three bars, sometimes referred to as a “hamburger”) located toward their upper- left corners.
All Apps List Situated at the lower-left corner of the Start Menu (and right above the Windows logo button) is “All apps.” Click these words and the left panel will switch to an alphabetical list of all programs (both Windows apps and desktop applications) that are installed on your computer, and their folders.
Any of these listings can be turned into a Tile by clicking and dragging it to a spot on the right half with the other Tiles, or right-click it, then select Pin to Start. That app’s icon will now appear at the bottom of the live tiles pane.
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View or Close Apps Task View is the new way new way to see all programs open or switch among programs and desktops. Clicking the Task View icon (which is to the right of the Cortana search box) takes you to a screen that shows large thumbnails of Windows apps and desktop applications that are running on your computer. You can jump to any program by clicking its thumbnail. Or, programs can be closed by clicking the “X” on its thumbnail.
If you use multiple monitors, Task View will only show what you’ve got on a specific monitor. When you hit the icon, Task View is displayed across all your monitors to help you find what you’re looking for, but don’t expect to see all your open windows on one display. If you’re running a full screen video on a specific monitor, then you won’t see Task View on that monitor at all.
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Chapter 3: Start Menu Windows 10 finally gives us back the Start Menu, and it’s much more customizable than it ever has been before. Here is a quick rundown of all the different ways that you can customize it. Resize You can quickly resize the Start Menu by simply moving your mouse to the top edge of the Start Menu, once the mouse changes to a double arrow, you can resize it up or down. You can also move your mouse over the right side edge and follow the same steps. It’ll make the Start Menu wider if you have live tiles pinned.
Pin and Unpin Tiles You can easily pin and unpin tiles by right-clicking on each one and selecting Unpin from Start (you can also drag them around to rearrange them).
And if a tile isn’t actually pinned to the Start Menu, you can use the All Apps view to find it, and then right-click and choose Pin to Start from there. You can also pin regular apps to the right-hand side if you want.
You might notice that you can also pin things to the taskbar from the same view or uninstall them quickly as well.
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Resize Tiles You can change the size of the tiles by right-clicking on them and choosing Resize and then picking a size.
Unfortunately the tiling is a little weird, so if you have an odd number of small tiles you’ll end up with blank space. Turn Off Live Tile Updates Live tiles show live updates for certain applications. For example a weather app may have a Live option where you will see real time updates of weather information without opening the app.
Not every app takes full advantage of live tiles, so you won’t necessarily get at-a-glance information from every icon in the live tiles pane.
If all those blinking tiles end up annoying you, just right-click on them and choose “Turn live tile off.”
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Change the Start Menu (and Taskbar) Color You can easily change the color of your Start Menu and Taskbar by right-clicking any empty space and choosing Personalize.
The Color and Appearance dialog will show up, and you can change the color to any style that you want.
Pin Items from the Left Side of the Start Menu You can pin applications to the left side of the Start Menu as well, but that’s not quite as intuitive… you need to drag and drop the shortcut for the application to the Start Button and you’ll see the tooltip change to “Pin to Start menu,” which is your cue to drop it there.
Once you’ve done so, it should immediately pin that application to the left side of the Start Menu. You can also drag and drop the items up or down if you want.
To remove anything that you put on the left side, just right-click and choose “Remove from this list.”
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Look Like Windows 7 One of the best ways to customize the new Start Menu is to just remove all of the silly live tiles and make it look more like Windows 7. All you need to do is unpin all the items on the right side, put the items on the left side that you want, and then resize it down until it looks good.
Computer Status When you're ready to step away for a while, the power button is right there at the bottom of the Start menu so you can put your PC to sleep, restart it, or turn it off completely.
Searching When you select the search box on the taskbar, Cortana will help you find things and get things done. Type what you're looking for and search will look for programs, Apps, files and even on the web.
Settings If you want to make other changes to how the Start menu looks, you can do so in Settings. Select the Start button, then select Settings > Personalization > Start to change which apps and folders appear in the Start menu.
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Chapter 4: Task View Task View is the new way new way to see all programs open or switch among programs and desktops. Clicking the Task View icon (which is to the right of the Cortana search box) takes you to a screen that shows large thumbnails of Windows apps and desktop applications that are running on your computer. You can jump to any program by clicking its thumbnail. Or, programs can be closed by clicking the “X” on its thumbnail.
If you use multiple monitors, Task View will only show what you’ve got on a specific monitor. When you hit the icon, Task View is displayed across all your monitors to help you find what you’re looking for, but don’t expect to see all your open windows on one display. If you’re running a full screen video on a specific monitor, then you won’t see Task View on that monitor at all. Access Task View You can access Task View from the icon or by pressing < > +
Snap Windows 10 still supports Snap, a fantastic feature that lets you set a window to take up half your screen.
Snap App to Left < > + <←> Snap App to Right < > + <→>
Windows 10 has also bumped up this functionality with a new feature called Quadrants that lets you snap programs into a four-rectangle grid on your display. After snapping an App to the left or right, use the up or down keys, Quadrants activates and snaps the window to the upper or bottom half of that side.
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Multiple Desktops Task View also lets you run multiple instances of the desktop environment. This may be helpful if you want to organize programs you are using for personal and work reasons into separate desktops. You do this by clicking “New desktop” on the lower-right corner; a new desktop thumbnail will appear to the right of the thumbnail of your first, current desktop. You can then jump to this second desktop by clicking its thumbnail.
Virtual Desktops are accessed through the Task View. You can access Task View from the icon or by pressing < > +
Create New Desktop To create a new desktop click the + New Desktop icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen or press < > +
To navigate between them you can choose between Desktop 1 and Desktop 2.
From Task View, you can also drag-and-drop open program windows from the current desktop into a different one, or onto the "+ New Desktop" link to create a new virtual desktop housing the software.
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Chapter 5: Cortona Windows 10 comes with Microsoft’s new personal digital assistant, Cortana, offering a more personalized search and help experience. But like any digital assistant, Cortana needs to get to know you a bit before she can be truly useful to you.
Once Cortana is set up properly, she can alert you when you need to leave for work or upcoming flights, recommend nearby restaurants, remind you about your next meeting and other events, and lots more. You can also create reminders right in Cortana. Which is of course the subject of a future tip. Accessing Cortana is off by default and you need to enable Cortana before you can use this feature. To do so, select the Cortana (or Search) button on the taskbar and step through the simple wizard. You will need to agree to let Cortana collect information about you, which will be stored in the cloud so that Microsoft can sync your preferences between devices. From the taskbar By default, Cortana is available via the Cortana search box on the taskbar. However, you can configure Cortana as a button instead, or you can simply disable Cortana on the taskbar and still use it with your keyboard or mouse (as explained below). To change how Cortana works on the taskbar, right-click an empty area of the taskbar and select Cortana and then the option you prefer.
From the keyboard To access Cortana from your keyboard, press <> and just start typing. Or, if Cortana is not visible on your taskbar, just type <> + C.
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With your voice Using a feature called “Hey, Cortana,” you can trigger Cortana searches by saying—wait for it—“Hey, Cortana.” This feature obviously requires a working microphone. But you must also enable it first too. To do so, open Cortana Settings (either using Cortana/Start search or by selecting Notebook and then Settings from the Cortana UI. You can even fine-tune Cortana to only listen to your voice by using a simple wizard. From Start Microsoft also conveniently places a Cortana tile on Start so you can’t miss this feature.
Cortana Notebook Cortana stores the information she knows about you in a virtual notebook. You can access this notebook, and configure information about yourself—favorite locations, which is useful for commute help, plus of ton of other information. So step through each of the categories—Eat & Drink, Events, Getting Around, and so on—and configure it accordingly. That way, Cortana can work for you, proactively.
This information that Cortana presents to you throughout your day can be configured by clicking on the Notebook or Reminders settings.
If you’d like to be able to just speak commands at your PC, open Cortana by clicking the search field in the taskbar and select the Notebook icon in the left-side options pane. Select Settings from the list, then simply enable the “Let Cortana respond when you say ‘Hey Cortana’” option. You’ll need an active microphone for this to work, of course.
While you’re poking around Cortana’s options, you can dive into the Notebook menu to fine-tune exactly what personal data Microsoft’s digital assistant can access. Remember, however, that like Google Now, Cortana’s effectiveness is directly related to how much she knows about you.
Or, you can also turn Cortana off, if you are not interested in this.
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Chapter 6: Edge Windows 10 comes with a new web browser, Edge. Edge is a Windows app, so it shares the same design language as the other new Windows apps that are included with Windows 10. Compared to IE, Edge has a cleaner looking interface with simpler elements in its toolbar. Internet Explorer is still included in Windows 10, listed under Windows Accessories in the Start Menu, if you need it, but Edge is the default browser for Windows 10
Once you launch Edge, you’ll see a broad, gray window, most likely full of small snippets of content. Microsoft makes an effort to make the homepage something like Cortana or your Start menu, with some rotating news pieces, the weather, and maybe even some sports scores.
Note the small “Customize” link to the upper right. That opens up a really bare-bones page where you can highlight one or more of six topics to highlight on the homepage. When you launch a new tab, you might also see some small, square icons containing frequently-visited sites.
At top, you’ll see the search box. By default, Edge uses the Bing search engine to search. Remember, you can either type a Web address directly into the search box, or else enter a search term or two that Bing can hunt down.
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Settings The Settings section of the browser lets you tweak browser settings to meet your particular needs. Edge browser supports a home button, and lets you import favorites from another browser, like Internet Explorer. You can also show or hide the favorites bar, as well as toggle the display of the home button.
Reading View Edge can re-render certain web pages to display only the main body of text and a related image, stripping out extraneous graphics and text from the original layout, to make an online article more visually comfortable to read. To do this, click the open-book icon to the right of the URL address bar. This function isn’t available when this icon is grayed-out: Not every page is able to be stripped down to its essentials.
Web Note A unique Edge feature called Web Notes puts the browser into a special mode where you can add annotations on top of the page. These annotations can be made with your finger or, if you have one, a stylus (like Surface Pen). Web Notes are saved locally, but can be synced between devices, and you can share them with others too, even people who aren’t using Edge.
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Chapter 7: App Store Windows Store—commonly called Store—is your one-stop shop for finding Windows apps and desktop applications, games, music, movies and TV shows. As such, it’s a busy and dense app, with links to each of the major content areas.
Each of the content areas—Apps, Games, Music and Movies & TV—visually resembles the Home view, with promoted content, various picks and so on. Navigation is straightforward, and the built in search functionality lets you search across each of these content areas from a single place.
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Installing Apps Installing Apps is a great way to personalize your device even more. There’s a huge quantity of apps available through the store that can do almost anything.
Step 1: Click on the Windows Store app Step 2: Browse the applications or type in a keyword and search Step 3: Click on the App you want to install Step 4: Click install **An account will need to be created to install Apps, see Create an Account section on how to do this. **Make sure to look at the price. Many apps are free but some to cost money.
Creating a Microsoft Account In order to download anything from the APP store, a Microsoft account will be needed to sign in. Creating a Microsoft account is free and once done, you will not need to enter it each time you download an item. If you haven’t used Microsoft services in the past, you can use any email address you want to sign up for a new Microsoft account, including addresses from Outlook.com, Yahoo! or Gmail.
Select NEXT Select CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT under the Don’t have an account?
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Fill in all fields.
Select the dropdown to enter a current email address you use
Enter all information and click NEXT
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Enter all information and click NEXT
NOTE: Whatever phone number or alternate email address used will need to be used to verify setup.
Once you have entered the code, you can sign in and download any apps from the app store. Don’t worry, you won’t have to go through this process again.
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Find an app or game after you’ve downloaded it One of the issues in Windows 8 is that you would install and app and then wouldn’t be able to find it. Microsoft has fixed this in Windows 10. When you complete an app download an Open button will appear next to that app’s landing page in the Store app so you can get to it immediately. If you have closed the Store app, you will see the just-installed app in the Recently Added list in Start.
Also, the All Apps link at the bottom of Start has a “New” badge, indicating that something new is available. When you open All Apps, you will see the new app at the top of the list. And if you scroll through the entire list of apps, you’ll see that newly- installed apps also have a “New” badge, setting them off visually.
Uninstall an App Universal apps are self-contained and don’t require special files to be installed in different locations all over your PC’s file system like some legacy desktop applications. To uninstall any app, including universal apps and desktop applications, find it on Start or in All Apps, right-click (or, with touch, tap and hold) and choose Uninstall from the pop-up menu that appears
If you are uninstalling a universal app, you’ll be asked to confirm this decision. Note: Every app you install from the Store can be uninstalled this way. But most of the apps that come with Windows cannot be uninstalled.
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Purchase an app or game As you might imagine, purchasing a paid app or game requires a few more steps than downloading a free (or previously purchased) item. You will be prompted to sign-in—using your password, PIN or a Windows Hello-based sign-in—and then asked to confirm which payment method you prefer to use. From there, the download process proceeds normally. Manage your account and payment options If you decide to purchase an APP that is not free, you will need to ensure that Store is set up correctly for your account and whatever payment methods you prefer to use for paid apps and other content. You do this from Microsoft Account web site at https://account.microsoft.com, but you can find a link from within Store: select your account picture next to Search and then choose Payment options from the drop-down menu that appears. From the web page that loads in your default browser, you can create, delete and manage payment options tied to your Microsoft account. These include credit and debit cards, of course, but can also include a Microsoft gift card account balance and PayPal. Find apps and games you’ve already purchased or downloaded Using the Store app, you can access your apps library—the list of the apps and games you’ve purchased and downloaded across all of your PCs and devices—so that you can easily find them again. This can be useful if you’ve received a new PC or have uninstalled an app and now wish to get it back. To see this list, open the account menu in Store and choose My Library. In the default My Library view, you can see your most recent apps and games. (There are also mentions of music and videos, but those are viewed in the Groove Music and Movies & TV apps, respectively.) Note: My Library will only display those apps and games that will work on the PC or device you’re currently using. So Windows Phone 8-based apps and games will not appear here if you’re viewing on a PC, for example. To re-download an item, simply select the Download icon next to that item, at the far right. You must do so on an app-by-app basis; there is no way to multi-select items here.
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Chapter 8: Notifications Windows 10 universal apps work much like mobile apps do on other platforms, providing unique standalone experiences that (hopefully) meet some need or want. But thanks to unique Windows 10 features, these apps also offer some unique advantages over those running on rival mobile platforms. One is that you will often not even need to run an app to find out what’s new thanks to pop-up notifications that are also available via Action Center, lock screen notifications and live tiles on Start that can keep you up-to-date at a glance. Notifications are configured in Settings, System and Notifications & Actions.
As you can see, there are a number of options here. Some you should consider include:
Show app notifications. This option needs to be set to On for pop-up app notifications to display. You can leave this option set to On, even if you don’t want some notifications to appear. (You can turn off notifications on an app-by-app basis, as explained below.) Show app notifications on the lock screen. This option needs to be set to On for app notifications to appear on the lock screen. You can leave this option set to On, as you can determine which apps are able to display notifications on the lock screen. Show notifications for these apps. This section lists all of the apps that can display notifications and lets you configure them individually. To halt all notification types for an app, change the slider from On to Off. To determine which types of notifications an app can display—pop-up notifications or notification banners, plus the ability to play a sound on a notification—tap the name of the app and choose accordingly.
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Handle App Notifications App notifications appear as little windows, sometimes called “toasts” because they pop-up, in the lower- right corner of the screen. These notifications will appear no matter what you’re doing in Windows, including on the desktop. If you select such a notification, you’ll switch immediately to the underlying app that triggered that notification. But if you ignore this type of notification, it will simply disappear within a few seconds. Fortunately, you can view and manage previous notifications in Action Center, as described below.
Action Center Action Center, the new notification center in Windows 10, lets you manage app notifications you may have previously missed. It’s hidden by default, but you can access Action Center by selecting the Action Center button in the system tray or, on a touch-based system, by swiping in from the right-edge of the screen.
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Action Center appears as a pane on the right side of the screen. It provides access to notifications— separated by app—as well as quick action tiles, which are described elsewhere in the book.
To access the item that triggered the notification, select the notification in the Action Center list. For example, if you select an email message as seen, the message will display will display in the Mail app. When you access a notification this way, all of the notifications for that app are cleared from Action Center.
If you simply wish to remove a notification from Action Center, you can click the Close button (“X”) that appears when you mouse over it.
Or, you can clear all notifications instead of an individual notification from an app, just hover at the top of the list on the right side to see an “X” to clear all for this app.
Or to remove all notification, click Clear All from the top of the screen.
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Lock Screen In addition to pop-up app notifications, apps can also elect to provide notifications on the lock screen. This lets you see what’s new when the PC is locked. As discussed in the Personalize chapter, Lock screen notifications are configured in Settings, Personalization, Lock Screen. If you scroll down a bit, you’ll see a sections for configuring app icons for detail and quick status updates.
Lock screen notifications are limited. Windows allows you to have just a single app configured to display a detailed status, while you can configure up to 7 apps that can display a quick status notification, which is basically just a number or similar on top of an icon. (You can also choose an app that can show alarms on the lock screen.) Not surprisingly, while many apps support quick status notifications, only a few— Calendar, Weather, Xbox—support the detailed status notification type. If you manage your schedule with the Calendar app, that’s the obvious choice, as you can always see your next appointment. Quick status notification icons appear under the date on the lock screen. Windows will display some non- configurable notifications, like one for your network connection, plus whatever app notifications you’ve configured. None of these lock screen notifications are actionable. That is, you cannot tap one, sign-in and go right to that app. Instead, you will need to manually find and launch any app that provided a notification.
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Chapter 9: Tablet Mode Windows 10’s Continuum dynamically switches from the traditional desktop to a more Metro-like interface, similar to Windows 8, when you’re using a touchscreen. In contrast to the normal operating mode of Windows 10—in which Start appears as a menu by default, open apps and windows can float over the desktop, and the user interface is tailored for keyboard and mouse interaction—Tablet mode optimizes Windows for touch. Tablet mode should automatically activate (if you want it to) when you detach a tablet from its base or dock, or you can activate it manually through the Action Center. When in Tablet mode, the Start menu then goes full screen as do Windows Store apps and Settings. The most striking aspect will be that the Start menu is now the Start screen.
Note that the icons on the taskbar will change, leaving you only with a back button, the search icon, and the virtual desktops button. Full-screen mode in Windows 10 is a lot less annoying than it was in Windows 8 because now you can access you apps, folders, and settings with just a simple click of your mouse button.
Among the obvious changes you’ll see when you enable this usage mode are:
Everything is full screen. Start and any open apps and windows all switch into a special full screen mode and the desktop is effectively hidden (though you can still access the desktop in File Explorer). App icons in the taskbar disappear. By default, app icons do not appear in the taskbar. This cleans up the look of the system dramatically and ensures you won’t fumble- finger launch app icons by mistake. You can click the “All apps” button in the bottom-left corner to see and launch any of your installed applications.
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User interface elements adapt to be touch-friendly. Among the changes here are a touch- friendly taskbar in which its contained icons are bigger and better spaced for touch, plus a Back button that works like the one on Windows phones, enabling you to navigate back through the system “back stack.” It still works fine with keyboard and mouse. If you just prefer the UI and apps to be full-screen, no worries: Tablet mode works great with keyboard and mouse too. You don’t have to use touch.
It’s also important to note that in tablet mode, the Desktop is unavailable. When you open for example, File Explorer, it will only appear maximized. So, tablet mode is truly a mode in which the Start screen is where you will spend most of your time interacting with Windows. Activate manually You may want to activate the Tablet mode manually. As its name implies, this user interface is designed to be used with a tablet, but you can still interact with it on a computer that doesn’t have a touchscreen. You may want to use it when you don’t want to be distracted by the desktop, for example. This can be done in the Action Center of Windows 10.
On the Action Center panel is a “Tablet mode” button. Click this, and the Start Menu expands to fill the entire screen whenever you click the Windows logo button. Tablet mode also locks out the user from interacting with the desktop environment. The desktop is grayed out to indicate this. Settings To configure Tablet mode to work the way you prefer, open Settings (< >+ I) and navigate to System, Tablet Mode. Here, you’ll be able to tell Windows whether you want to even use Tablet Mode on this device, and specify how you want to handle Tablet Mode prompts if so. You can also tell Windows to keep your open and pinned apps on the taskbar when in Tablet Mode if you so desire, as well as to boot into tablet mode at startup.
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