hello everyone a very warm welcome tothis microsoft windows 10. my
name's deb and i'm goingto be your instructor for this courseand this is
the first introductorysectioni'm going to go through a little bitabout
myself we're going to review whothis course isfor i'm going to talk you
through thestructureof this course and then finally i'mgoing to cover
make
so firstjust a little bit about me so i'm amicrosoft i.ttrainer and i
specialize in the designdelivery and facilitation of microsoftcourses
bothonline and in the classroom and i'vebeen using windows in its
variousdifferent versions for about25 years now so i've really been able
tosee how windows hasevolved since around the mid 90s upuntil the
present day
10 beginnersso if you've never used windows 10before
then this course is going to beperfect for youalso if you're used to
using a muchearlier version of windowsand when i say earlier version
i'mtalking aboutsomething like xp or maybe even vistathen again this
course is going to beperfect for you because windows 10 is sovastly
different from those two versionsof windows
from a more modern
version so i wouldsay windows 7windows 8 or 8.1 then you're still
goingto get value from this course becausewindows 10has a lot of
differences but there mightalso be some things which are verysimilar to
the version that you're usedto usingso what i would say to you is if
you'regoing through this course and you get toa moduleand you think to
yourself this is very
usethen by all means skip over that
moduleand move on to the next onenow when it comes to the structure
ofthis course i'm going to try and gothrough the courselogically i'm
going to cover all of thesectionsin sequence this course is made up of
anumber of differenttopic related sections and within eachsection you'll
find a number of moduleswithin each module there will be a
video
and those videos will be up to 15minutes longyou'll also find scattered
throughoutthis course usually aroundone per section you will have
anexercise to completeso the purpose of these exercises isreally just to
give you a chance topractice some of the skills that you'velearned in
that particularsection and then at the end of thecourse there will bea
quiz which will just test your
so it gives you a really good
chance tosee how far you've comefrom the beginning of the course to
theend now the final thing i want tomentionin this module is the
assumptions thati'm going to makeso i'm going to assume that you have
aninstalled copy of windows 10and you'll see in the following
modulesthat there are a few different versionsof windows 10 as welli'm
also going to assume that you're
on a desktop pc ormaybe a laptop
and what i mean by thatis that you're not practicing windows 10on a
mobile phone device or a tabletnow tablet is very interesting you'llsee
when we get into windows 10 there isan option to move intotablet mode
which is specificallyrelated totablet users now i'm not going to focuson
that in this particular courseeverything i show you is going to bemore
related to
and laptop users however i would saythat if you do
predominantly use atablet you're still going to get valuefrom this
course becausea lot of the features i demonstrate indesktop mode are not
that dissimilar tothe tablet mode but just bear that inmind as we go
throughnow with all that said if you don't havewindows 10 already
installedwe're actually going to cover that inthe next moduleso i'm
going to head over there now so i
hello everyone and welcome back
to thiscourse on windows 10.in this section we're going to betalking
about how you can acquirewindows 10 if you don't already have itnowjust
for clarity i am using a laptopdeviceit's running windows 10 and you can
seehere i have avery nice desktop picture background ofa beachand this
is just one of the standard
from within windows i'm going to
beshowing you how you can personalizeall elements of windows including
howyou can change up yourdesktop background picture in latermodulesbut
this module is about acquiringwindows 10and i would say that if you
already havewindows 10 on your pcor on your laptop this is one of
thesections that you can skiphowever if you don't already have it
because
we're going to go through anumber of things in this module whichare
going to be reallyimportant for you to know so the firstthing we're
going to talk aboutis how to identify which versionyou are on i'm then
going to show yousome of these system requirements forrunning windows
10.i'm going to show you how you canacquire or download windows 10 if
youdon't already have itwe're going to talk a little bit about
accountsand
local accounts and then i'm going tospeak to you about howyou can
upgrade or install windows 10now i will add that in thisdemonstration
i'm not actually going toinstall windows 10 because i alreadyhave itbut
i'm going to show you where to gohow you do it and give you a few
tipsalong the wayso let's start out this module with howyou can identify
and
for this you're going to need tolook at your system informationnow in
order to pull that up there is aquick shortcut way of doing thatyou need
to hold down the windows key soif you've never used the windows
keybefore if you look down at your keyboardand find where your space bar
isyou'll find that it's either one key ortwo keys to the leftof your
spacebar and it looks like alittle tiny window that is your windowskey
windows
key and press the pause keyon your keyboard and you'll find thatlocated
somewhere over on that top rowtowards the right hand side now
somekeyboards and this does include mineyou may have to add in the
function keyin order to get pause to activate so formei need to press
the windows key functionand pauseto quickly get to my system
informationand you can see here i can now see whichversion of windows 10
i'm using and it's
editionwindows 10 homeso this moves me on
quite nicely to talkabout the differenteditions of windows that you
candownloadso i'm just on the windows homepage ofthe microsoft
websiteand you can see here it's saying to mecompare windows 10
homeversus pro so these are the two mainversions that you're going to be
dealingwith home
thisstage microsoft do tend to like tochange
uptheir web pages so what you see herewhat i'm seeing on this pageby the
time you work your way throughthis course this page may have
changedvery slightlybut as always if you jump onto googleand type in
windows home or windows proand microsoft it's going to take you tothe
relevant pagenow if you want to do a comparison
home versus pro
to see which one isgoing to best suit your needsif you scroll down this
page you'll seeyou get the direct comparisonso you can see all of the
features thatare included in windows 10 homeand all of the features that
areincluded in windows 10 proand as you would expect you do getslightly
morefeatures in windows 10 pro now i willsay and there are a few more
featuresdown here
features that you get with windows 10pro so the
fact that i'm using windows10home for the purposes of this course
isgoing to beabsolutely fine everything i need toshow you is covered in
windows 10home but if you are considering whichone you want to download i
would comeonto this pagehave a read through and then make thedecision
as to which one is going tobest
is that windows 10 home is
probablysuitable for the majority of peoplei would only download pro if i
need todo something likemaybe join a business domain so if ineeded to
connect to a domain at workthen i would need to download windows
10pronow if you're not really a hundredpercent sure it's definitely
worthchecking with your itteam at work and asking for their adviceas
well
editions of windowsenterprise and education the
enterpriseversion is available byvolume licensing and most very
largeorganizationswill have some kind of enterpriselicensei will say
that you can't just walk intoa shop and buy the enterprise versionand
the same is also true for theeducation version which is mainly
forteachers andschools now both of these versions are
we won't be
covering thembut just be aware that there are thosetwo additional
versionsas well now another thing that youshould definitely checkprior
to downloading windows 10 is yoursystemrequirements and what we mean by
that iswhat is the minimum required in order tobe able to runwindows 10
on your pc laptop or tabletsuccessfullyand again if you jump on or
google
it will take you through to themicrosoft support site and
you can seethere on this page what your systemrequirementsare for
running windows 10 successfullynow when it comes to acquiring
ordownloading a copy of windows 10you can jump on to the microsoft
storenow i'm currently in the us microsoftstore but make sure that you
go into thecorrect one for yourlocation and you can see here i have
anoption to purchase the various different
of windows 10. and if
we jumpinto the windows 10 home i'm going toclickshop now and you can
see that you havetwo ways of obtaining your copy ofwindows 10.you can
choose to download it and iwould say these days that is themost popular
it's instant or you canchoose to get it on a usbor flash drive now as i
said most peopledo get it via the downloadbut it's worth bearing in mind
that
of spare space on your pc to enable youto download a copy
of windows 10.also if you don't have a particularlygreat internet
connectionit might be better for you to get theusb versionbecause
sometimes if your internetconnection isn't particularly greatand you
choose to download a very largefile which this isthat can take a very
very long timetying up all of your system resourcesand possibly
preventing you from doing
you're choosingwhich option you want
now the microsoftstore isn't the only place that you cango to purchase
acopy of windows 10 there are many manyother websites out there which
areselling copies of windows 10. i wouldadvise however that you do try
and buyfrom a reputable sourceand also we still have the what
issometimes termed as the old-fashionedwayyou can walk into your local
computer
be something on the lines of pc worldand you can pick up
a physical copy ofwindows 10 to installonto your pc or laptop so a
fewdifferent optionsfor you by far the most convenient isthis download
optionfrom this page now in the followingmodules we are going toset up
an account on our pc in windows10and one thing you're going to need
todecide is whether you want to use a
or a local account and by
default youwill be asked to use a microsoft accountit's a very
straightforward process toset this up on microsoft.comand we are going
to go through that inone of the later modulesi just want to briefly
introduce theconcept to you in this particular modulenow there are pros
and cons to each andi've actually just jumped onto the microsoft support
forum so thisis a community forum where people postquestions and then
other people provide
asked the question regarding
microsoftaccounts versus local accounts onwindows 10and they actually
get a really goodcomprehensive answer just here which isdefinitely worth
a read throughbut to give you a basic overview of thedifference between
the twoa microsoft account gives youessentially a singlesign-on which
is similar to a googleaccount or somethinglike facebook if you log in or
operate
access to things like onedriveyou can also download apps
so using amicrosoftaccount makes things really convenientbut there is a
little bit of a costto that and the majority of the conswith regards to
microsoft accounts arerelated tosecurity now i'm not going to delve
intothis too much at the momentbut i will say that if you're not
reallysure if you understand the differencebetween the two
google
googling microsoft account versuslocal accountand doing a little bit
further readingas i said i am going to go into thisa little bit more
when we get to thatmodule but it's good to give yourselfsome background
knowledgeand this particular answer is prettydetailed which is why i
like toshow this particular answer definitelyworth a readnow a local
account is one that's justset up
that if you do choose to set up a
localaccount you canswitch it to a microsoft account laterand with a
local account each userof the pc has a separate account it'sstandalone
so it's good forsecurity so it might be that you havethree members in
your family andeverybody uses the same pcyou may want to have a
different accountfor each member of the family so whenthey go to the
pcthey click on their name they log in and
settings all of their
shortcutseverything that they needwhich is completely different to
theother accounts that are set up locallyon that machine so that's
definitely onething to think aboutlocal account versus microsoft
accountsso i'm now back at the windows storewhich was the page that we
were onpreviouslyso when it comes to upgrading orinstalling windows
10we've seen how simple that is we just
that we want to download
and then we canchoose how we want to download thateitherby electronic
download or usbif i just click back to go back to thishome pageyou can
see the top here it says readyto upgrade to windows 10.now i would
definitely click on checkcompatibility if you're upgrading fromanolder
version of windows and again thisis where you'll have all of those
windows
10.so make sure that your pc or the devicethat you're usingmeets all of
those requirements beforeyou go inand purchase your copy of windows
10.now if you have any trouble when itcomes to installing windows 10 i
wouldalways advise you just refer tomicrosoft.comthey have some really
great supportpages and you can normally throughreading
people's
questionsyou can normally fix your own problemso having downloaded
windows 10 youshould be ready to start using itso that's exactly what
we're going to doin the next modulewhere i'm going to walk you through
howto get startedusing windows 10 so i will see you overtherehello
everyone and welcome back to mycourse on windows 10.in this module i'm
going to show you how
so we're going to start out by taking alook
at starting windows 10 and alsosome of the lock options that you
havewe're going to go through the desktopwe're then going to take a look
at thestart menui'm going to show you some options youhave when it
comes to workingin tablet mode i'm also going to showyou the options you
have forshutting down windows 10. so if you'realreadylet's get started
now when it comes to
windows 10one option i want to start with is
thelock screennow the lock screen is particularlyuseful if you areat
work and you've got lots and lots ofdifferent applications openand maybe
you just need to pop away fromyour desk maybe you need to go to
ameeting or you're going to lunch or on abreakand you don't really want
to close downeverything that you've got opened on
but at the same
time you don't want justanybody to be able to walk up to your pcwiggle
the mouse and access all of yourapplicationsso a good option here is to
lock yourscreenit's going to keep everything runningand open in the
background but it'sgoing to pop up a password so thatsomebody can't
justjump onto your pc and look at everythingthat you have openso the
quickest way to lock your pc is
alt deletenow what you see i get
is i just get mydesktop background picture and this is adifferent one
that i have on my actualdesktopand it just shows some basic
informationthat i have on my lock screen and aswith always in
microsoftwhat you see on here is customizableso i have the time and the
current datei can also see in the very bottom lefthand corner it's
telling me that i havethree email notifications and then on
connected
to wi-fiand i can also see the percentage ofbattery power that i have
left in mylaptopand you can also see that i actuallyhave it plugged in
and chargingat the moment so once you lock yourscreen when you come back
to it allyou need to do is to click on yourscreen anywhereand it's
going to take you to your lockscreen and it's going to ask you to login
now again on the bottom
two accounts set up on this laptopso i
have my account that's currentlyhighlighted and there's also
somebodyelse who has access to my laptopwith a local account somake sure
that you select your accountand then you're going to be asked foryour
pinor your password now i prefer to have apin but that really is just
personalpreferenceand again in some of the later sectionsi'm going to
show you how you can
with a password or if you want to usesome
kind of pinyou can see above that i have a pictureof myself then
underneath that i have alinkif i forget my pin i can get a reminderand
i've got a directlink to my sign in options just thereand then in the
bottom left hand corneragain we have some symbols so it'stelling me
thatmy keyboard is english united statesi can see my wi-fi connection i
can see
and then i have my power button if iwant to do something
like shut downcompletelynow at this stage i'm just going to logback in
by typing in my pinso now i'm back at my desktop so whilstwe're
herelet's just do a very quick tour aroundthe windows 10 desktopnow on
the main part of the screen inthe top left hand corner you can seei've
got a couple of icons there i havea recycle bin
these are desktop
icons and some peoplehave a lot of desktop iconsother people not so
many now i'm in thatlatter group i tend not to have too manyicons on my
desktopi prefer to have my icons pinned acrossthe bottom in my
taskbarbut again this is very much personalpreferenceand what these
desktop icons are areessentiallyshortcuts to the applications so if
iwant to quickly access my recycle bin
hereand it's going to jump
me into myrecycle binthe same thing with edge if i wanted toopen up the
edge internet browser i candouble click and it's going to take methere
straight away sodesktop icons will appear on yourdesktopand i'm going to
show you how to createthose a bit later onnow running across the bottom
now wehave the windows key
to cover the start menu in a lot
ofdetailin some of the following modules so i'mgoing to leave that for
now but it is avery important buttonwe then have the search bar again
we'regoing to cover that in later modulesi then have a number of icons
on mytaskbarand these tend to be the applicationsthat i use all of the
time so you cansee i have on there a lot of themicrosoft applications so
i
have a couple of internet browsers ihavethe camtasia software that i
use torecord these videosi have a link to file explorer so i canquickly
access my documentsand also a very quick link to mysettings as wellnow
again what you see down here is verymuchpersonal preference and i'm
going toshow you how you can essentially addthings or remove things from
this
again in some of the following modulesthen finally right
over on the righthand side we have ournotification area and in older
versionsof windowsthis was referred to as the system trayand again the
icons that you see downhere are customizablenow i like to have icons
that displayinformation that's useful to me so ilike tosee if i have my
volume muted i like tosee what my battery life is
then of course i
have thetime and the date there as well and thenfinally right on the
very end we havethis kind of it looks like a little bitlike a speech
bubblethis is the action center and if iclick on this this gives me an
overviewso i can see there at the top veryeasily the last twoemails that
i've received and then ihave a number of differenttiles that i can
essentially click on orclick off to toggle
the only two of those i
have turned onarewi-fi because i am using a wi-ficonnectionand i also
have my location running aswellbut for example if i wanted to turn
onbluetooth i could just come over hereclick on the bluetooth tile and
that'sgoing to very quickly turn that onfor me now this little action
center andall of these tilesagain can be customized to what's going
to
you as you might have guessed we aregoing to cover thisin a later
module finally at the bottomthere i can very simply adjust thebrightness
of my screenby dragging this slider up or downso lots of options in
there now beforewe leave this module i want to brieflyjump back tothis
start menu and there's quite a lotto cover in the start menu so i
reallywant to justintroduce you to the start menu in this
now the
start menu you'll find underthis little windowsicon all the way over on
the left handsideso you can either click on the windowsicon to pull up
the start menuor alternatively if you press thatwindows keyon your
keyboard that's going to allowyou to access itas well now this start
menu has been abit controversial over the yearsso for anybody out there
who used
if you can remember back to that windows7 was very
muchjust the menu part of this screenthen when we moved on to windows 8
and8.1microsoft introduced these tiles thatyou can see just hereand a
lot of people really didn't likejust having the tiles they missed
thatmenuso kind of what we have in windows 10 isthe compromisea
combination of both so we still have
windows 7 style menu system
but we alsohavetiles there as well if we want to usethemnow again we're
not going to delve intothis too much in this modulebut i just want to
make you aware ofsome of the things that you have on hereso if we start
with just this menurunning down the left hand sideyou can see that we
have access to ourpower options if we want to shut down orrestart
settingsi
can jump directly to my picturesfolder andalso my documents folder so
if i clickon documents this essentially is goingto open upfile explorer
and jump me straight to mydocuments folderand then i have access to
essentially myprofile my account on this pc now movingacross to this
middle sectionthis is where you'll see all of the appsand applications
and
these are all listed in alphabeticalorderand any applications that
you've addedrecently to your systemwill be listed at the top so you can
seehere that recentlyi downloaded or installed microsoft edgeand i also
downloaded microsoft teams aswellnow if i want to scroll through
thislist you'll see that i havea little scroll bar at the side here soi
can then scroll through
and as you mightexpect if i want to open
one of theseapplications i can just select it fromthe menuin order to
open that application nowall of theseletter dividers so you can see
herewhere it says a where i'm currentlyhoveredif i click on a it's going
to take meinto this little alphabeticizedpanel so if i want to jump to
somethingin particular so maybe i'm looking for
i could click on m
and it's going tojump me straight down to that part ofthe menusystem so
don't forget that you havethat there as welland then on the right we
have our tilesso these are very much those windows 8windows 8.1style
tiles some people love thesesome people hate them i am a little bitlike i
don't tend to use them so muchbut i do know a lot of people who
doreally like using them now i don't have
inany particularly nice
logical sequencebut what you can do is you can add anyof your
applicationsor apps as tiles you can organize theminto different groups
so you can see atthe top here i have life to glancewhich is one of the
groups that windows10 automatically creates for youyou can rename these
groups you can addmore and you can add whatever tiles youwant tointo
those groups and again it's just a
applicationsand any apps that
you have so if iwanted to open excel i can just click onthisexcel tile
and that's going to go awayand open excel for me so very verysimple to
use now as i said i'm notgoing to speak a lot in this courseabout tablet
mode but i just want toshow you if you are using a tablet whereyou can
go to switch ontablet mode essentially so i'm going togo back to my
start menu i'm going to
and i'm actually going to go to
settingsi'm going to click on this little cogicon i'm going to click on
systemand you'll see here in this long list ofoptions one of the options
we haveis tablet mode now i like to keep thewhen isign in option to use
the appropriatemode for myhardware and that's because when i
signinwindows is going to automatically detectif i'm using a tablet
to
switch the mode depending on whichone it picks upand when you switch
into tablet modewhat it essentially does is it optimizesall of the
windows featuresfor a tablet device so for example itwill give youmore
room in between icons because it'sallowing for yourfinger as opposed to a
mouse cursornow you don't have to have the useappropriate mode
settingyou can set it to use tablet mode
on a tabletyou can just
switch into that mode andhave it start up in that modeevery single time
there's a few otheroptions in here for customizing tabletmode which you
might want to look atif you do use a tablet device nowsaying that an
even quicker way toswitch into tablet mode and this isparticularly
usefulif sometimes you work on a desktop andsometimes you work on a
tabletif we go back to that action center in
right hand corner
you can see one of thetiles that i have here istablet mode so i can very
quickly toggleit onor toggle it off depending on whatdevice i'm usingat
any given time now finally i justwant to talk to you aboutshutting down
windows 10. now of courseif you wanted to you can justpress the power
button on your devicealthough i would saythat sometimes that's quite a
harsh way
recommend if you are just going toswitch it offmake
sure that you've fully savedeverything and properly exitedall of your
applications don't leavethem all open and then just turn thepower button
off that'snever good it's what we would call ahard shutdownnow your
other power options if youclick on the start menu again so i'mgoing to
press mywindows key you'll see at the bottom
power so if i click
on power i havesleepshutdown and restart so sleep is a goodone to useif
maybe you're going to sleep at nightmaybe you've got a lot of stuff
openyou can put your pc into sleep modewhich won't close down
everythingbut it's going to use very little powerso all you need to do
to log back in themorning is touch your keyboardtype in your pin or your
password andyou're up and running again
on the tin it's
gonnashut everything on your pc down and turnyour pcoff and then finally
restart is probablyan option that you've used many timesbeforethere
might be occasions where you needto restart your device such as if
you'veinstalled maybe a new application whichrequires a restart in order
for it to beable to workthen you might want to use that optionand it
basically does a shutdown and
automatically restarts your pc and
willland you backat the login page when you type in yourpassword or your
pinso those are the options that you havenow there is one more option
calledhibernatebut again i'm going to discuss that morein latermodules
but for now that's a very quickoverview of how to get started how
tonavigate your way around the windows 10desktop that's it for this
module i will
in the next onehello everyone and welcome back to
ourcourse on windows 10.in this module i'm going to talk to youabout
running appsand desktop programs so this is one ofthe most frequent
things that you'll dowhen working in windows 10once you've logged in
you're going towant to start to open your apps andmayberun apps as well
so we're going to gothrough the basics of that
that i really want
to highlight in thismodule is the difference betweenapps and desktop
programsbut we're going to start out by taking afurther look at that
start menui'm going to show you how you can startapps and desktop
programsi'm going to show you a really nicelittle feature that will help
you workinmultiple different windows so we'regoing to look at snapping
appsand then finally i'm going to show you
applications that you
haveopen so let's start out again by takinga lookat some more details
related to thatstart menu now we looked at thisin previous modules and
we know that toget to our start menu we can eitherclick on that windows
logo in the bottomleft hand corneralternatively we can press the
windowskeyon our keyboard now when that start menupops up obviously
you've got your
side and then you have thosetiles in the middle
i'm going to delvemore intotiles and organizing them in latermodulesbut
all i really want to show you hereis the fact that you can actually
modifythe sizeof this start menu so if you're findingthis a little bit
too big a bit toocumbersome then if you hover your mouseover the right
hand side you can see iget that little double headed arrow
to
make that a little bit thinner i cando exactly the same at the top so if
iwant to make it shorteri can just click and drag that down sothat
allows me to see a lot more ofwhatever i've gotunderneath that being an
application orjust my simple background like i dohere now i find that a
little bit toosmall so i'm just going to drag mine upvery slightlyand
also back out again now as we'veseen previously if you want to
itis
to scroll through your list ofapplications which are all
organizedalphabetically and you can click to openso for example i can
clickto open up excel now another way that ican do thisis i could select
my applications fromthis tiles area now i don't have a greatdealof
stuff in this particular area at themoment i am going to add to it as we
gothrough the course
example if we keep it consistentif i wanted
to open up excel i can seethat i have my excel icon underneaththis life
at a glance sectionif i click it it expands that littlefolder i can
then click on the tileagain just to launch excel so a coupleof really
simple ways just to open yourapplications from that start menunow one
thing i want to point out inthis menu in particularis if we scroll
through you'll see thatmost of the items in this list
identifythat
particular item but if i scrolldown you'll see that some of them
havethis littlefolder icon so if we look at this onehere where it says
microsoft officetoolsi have a little folder icon now withthese folder
icons what you'll also seeis that you'll have a little drop downat the
side so if i click to expand thatit's going to show me the items that
arelocated
reason why i'm highlighting this to youis because
sometimes that can be alittle bit confusing when you'researching for a
particular applicationif i give you an example if i wanted toopen up the
notepad applicationon my pc if i jump down ton which is just below i
don't havenotepad in therenow i know that notepad is installed sowhere
might that be lurkingwell in this case i happen to know thatnotepad is a
windows accessory
my w areayou can see i have a folder here
againwindows accessoriesif i expand that it's going to show meall of
those accessories and one of themthereis notepad so what i'm trying to
say toyou here is if you're looking for aparticular application you
can't find itit might be that it's locatedin a folder now you're not
going to knowthe name of the folder that it's locatedin a lot of the
time and of course there
applicationsthan going through every
single folderbut i'm going to get on to that when wego through all of
the options we haverelated to searchbut just be aware it might be
lookingsomewhere different to where you thinkso we're going to leave
this start menufor the time beingand we're going to shift our focus
downto that task bar that we have runningacross the bottomnow as i
mentioned before this is kind
of opening up my applications i
like tohave all of the applications that i usemost frequentlypinned to
this taskbar and there's a fewreasons why i prefer this methodone of
them is that they're super easyto accessso you can see down here i have
veryeasy access tofile explorer if i just click it opensit upand pretty
much all of the applicationsthat i use i have the microsoft office
and
on the end herei have some applications that arerelatedto the recording
of this video so youmight be wonderinghow do you get your applications
to bepinned down on that taskbarwell again it's pretty simple we'regoing
to jump back into our start menusowindows key and all you need to do
isfind the application or the desktopprogram that you want to
tiles
here actually i'm going to pin themicrosoft storeright click on the
tile or on the menuitemgo down to more and you can see that youhave a
pinto taskbar option one thing you'll alsonotice in here is you also
have anunpin from start option so if i wantedto remove the storefrom
that start screen i could choose tounpin itbut for now i'm going to
select pin to
so there we go if you now glance down atthattaskbar
you'll see that i've added themicrosoft storeto the taskbar similarly
if i decide atany point that i don't need a particularapplication pinned
to that taskbarall i would need to do is right click onitand select
unpin from taskbarand it's gone so whilst this isn't anexercise i think
it would be really goodpractice for you
applications and desktop
programs thatyou useall the time and just practice pinningthem downonto
your taskbar now if you want to anypoint to rearrange theorder of the
icons that you have downthere it's just a simple caseof grabbing the
icon and dragging it toits new location so you can see therei'm dragging
file explorer alongand i'm going to put it there after myweb browsers
you'll
see thatsome of my icons have a blue lineunderneath them so you can see
googlechromefile explorer excel and then a couple ofthe icons towards
the end of my tasksbarand all that basically means is thatthat
application isrunning so it's open somewhere on my pcyou'll see if i
open up the microsoftedgeweb browser as soon as i do that it gets
that
web browser down i no longer havethat blue line therenow again what
color this line appearsin is completely customizable and wewill get onto
that when we talk aboutpersonalizationnow another thing that's worth
noting iswhen you do have a few different thingsopenif you want to
switch between yourapplications so currently i have fileexplorer on
topif i wanted to switch to my browser
on the browser icon in the
taskbarand it's going to pull that to the frontif i switch back to file
explorerclick again and it pulls that to thefront so a very easy wayto
switch between your differentapplications that you have opennow one
thing that's really important isunderstanding the difference betweenapps
and desktop programs you'll quiteoften hear them used
interchangeablybut they are actually quite different soan example of a
desktop program would be
something likeexcel or word or
powerpoint or even awindows utility so somethinglike notepad like we
were looking atearlierthose would be desktop programs whereasapps tend
to be something that are a bitmore self-containedso for example netflix
is an app thati've downloadedsolitaire is an app that's
beendownloadedand the difference between apps and
up anapp it is
very much independent fromeverything elseso the app will have its own
menu systemit will have its own wayof working with that app whereas
desktopprogramstend to work in a similar way you'llhave the
standardwindows menu drop-downs contextual menusall of those types of
thingsso let me just show you an example of anapp i'm going to jump into
this
so we have the app openand you can see what i mean it has
amenu in the top left hand corner withits ownstyle of menu system now
one thing thatyou'll notice is a difference withwindows 10 particularly
if you've comefromwindows 8 or 8.1 is thatin those older versions when
you openedup anapp it would open up in full screen modeso you wouldn't
see the taskbar or
aside from that app now that doesn'thappen
automatically in windows 10.you can see even though i've got thisapp
open i can still see my taskbarrunning across the bottomhowever what
you'll find in most of theapps is there will be some wayfor you to
switch that to full screenmodeand i can see in this particular app inthe
top corner i havefull screen view which just gets rid ofthat taskbar
and allows me to work with
in the particular application i
thinkthese days most of us are used to theconcept ofapps we all have
mobile phones we alwaysdownload apps onto our mobile phonesit works in a
very similar way here icould jump into the microsoft storei can browse
through their apps and ican load apps ontomy pc now when we were looking
at thetaskbar i was showing you how you canswitch between apps simply
by clickingon the relevant icon on the taskbar to
frontanother
little feature that you have isthis little icon justhere task view and
if i click that whatthat's going to do is it's going to showmeeverything
that i have running on my pcat the moment so you can see i have acouple
of excel documents openi have a powerpoint presentation open ihave
myrecording software because i'm recordingthis tutorial
through
and seeother items that i had open earliertodayyesterday and even
further back thanthatand if i want to switch to them i canjust simply
clickto pull that into view so this littletask view is a great way of
really kindof getting an overview of everythingthat you haveopen another
thing that i like to do inhere is i like to come in here to close
things
opensometimes it's a little bit tedious togo through switching to each
applicationand closing things downif i go into task view you can see if
ihover over this book oneexcel i get that little cross in the topcorneri
can just click it and it closes it soi can just go throughclicking the
cross on each document thati no longerrequire and that is actually a lot
more
now i want to show you something that isa facility that i
useall the time i find myself constantlyworkingin two different parts of
the screen sofor example i might bewriting some notes for a training
coursein wordand i might also be doing some researchon the internet
related to that trainingcourse trying to work out what i want toputin
the course so i like to have my
screen and my word document
openin the other half of the screen andwindows 10 gives us this really
nicefeature called snappingwhich allows us to easily do that so letme do
just that i'm going to open upword just by tapping on the iconand we'll
just do a blank document i'malso going to open up my microsoft
edgebrowser now if i want these in each halfof the screenall i need to
do is go up to the top ofmy edge browser
the top and kind of pick
up that windowand then i'm going to drag it all theway over to the left
hand sideuntil i see that little ghosting when ilet goit's going to
snap to those ghostedboundariesand cleverly what it does is it
thenminimizesall of my other running applications andi can choose which
one i want to displayin the other half of the screenso in this case i
want to display the
i now have them bothorganized perfectly in
each half of thescreennow it's also worth noting that you cando this
with up to four documents so icould havefour documents in each corner if
iwanted toagain what i would do if i maximize thatif i grabinternet
explorer and this time insteadof dragging it over tothe left hand side
i'm going to drag it
the corner and you can see i get thatlittle
ghosting just therelet go and it puts it in the corneri can then choose
what other applicationi want to show in that half of thescreen so i'm
going to say show mypowerpoint presentationand then i could do the same
with word icould pick that upi could pull it up to the top corner ofthe
screento snap it in place and then i couldhave another application there
if i
now i don't tend to like to work likethis i find the
windows a bit toosmall but if you do have a much biggerscreen or a
bigger resolution then youmight find that particularlyuseful and now
this leads me on to myfinal point in this module and that isclosing
downapplications now i have three thingsopen on the screenand i can
simply click the cross toclose down word click the cross to closedown
powerpoint
window openanother way that i could close this downis
if i hover overmicrosoft edge in that taskbaryou can see i get that
little windowpreview and if i move up i have a littlecross in the corner
and i can just clickto close that down another way that youcan shut
things down and if i open upmicrosoft edge again is if you
likeusingshortcut keys if you do control f4 andthat will also close your
window down
to take inas i said do have a practice findingthose
applications that you usefrequently and pinning them andorganizing
themon your taskbar that's it for now i willsee you in the next modulehi
everyone welcome back to this courseon windows 10.in this module we're
going to talk aboutuser accountsnow earlier on i mentioned that you
canhave
need to set up one or more accounton your pc or laptop so
that you canshare it amongst other people soan example i would give
there is if youhave apc at home and there's multipledifferent family
members who use that pcyou can have a separate account for eachperson so
they can login and have access to all their owncustomizationsand
settings so in this module we'regoing to cover the basics
out by
going through the user accountsettingsi'm going to speak to you a little
bitmore about a microsoft account versus alocal accounti'm going to
show you how you can createa new account on your pcand then i'm going to
show you how youcan delete user accountsso on my particular laptop i
have twoaccountsset up on here one is for myself andanother is for a
member of my family
pc are set up in two different ways oneof
them is a microsoft accountand the other one is just a localaccountso
i'm logged in as myself currently andthe first thing we're going to do
isjust take a quick look atmy settings so we're going to go down toour
start menui'm going to click on the cog icon tojump to our settingsand
we're going to jump straight intothis accounts
is where i can see
all of my informationabout my account so the first thing youcan see
thereis you can see a picture of myself youcan see the email address
that i'm usinghereand you can see that i'm anadministrator now as i said
this is amicrosoft account so this is the accountinformation that i
would use to loginto office 365 or microsoft 365it's known these days
and you can seeunderneath i have a link to manage my
could manage
all of my billinginformation because if you remembermicrosoft 365 is
subscription packageand i can manage all of my settingssurrounding my
microsoft accountyou can also see here that i am anadministratorso that
means that basically i haveaccessto do pretty much anything on
thislaptop it's the highest level ofaccess that you can have and you
mightwant to make multiple people
have one personthat's entirely
up to you but as anadministrator you can do things likeadd other
accounts delete counts thingslike thatyou'll also notice that
occasionally inorder to run an application with a highlevel of
privileges so maybe you want todo somethingthat could if done wrong
affect therunning of your pcquite often you won't be able to runthat
unless you're logged in
things we have on this page here you
cansee it's telling me that i can sign inwith a local account instead if
i wanttoand then at the bottom i can choose tochange my pictureso i
have a camera option hereand i can also browse for a picture if ihave
one saved off to my local drivesso this all comes under the your infotab
insettings let's move down to emailand accounts so again at the top
here
my account which is a microsoft accountbut i also have the
option to add anaccount and we are going to add anaccount in a momentand
you can see all the differentoptions that you have you can set up
amicrosoft account a google accountyou can set up a local account lots
ofdifferent kinds of accounts that you cancreatethe next option down is
sign in optionsand this really allows you to controlhow you log into
your pc or laptop and
particularly with some of the newerlaptops
or pcs that you'll buyyou'll have now these sign-in optionswill
varydepending on the device that you'reusing so i have a verynew laptop
so i pretty much have accessto all of the different sign-in optionsfor
example windows hello what windowshello allows you to dois instead of
typing in a password or apinto log into your device you can
laptopwhich
uses facial recognition torecognize it's youand then it will log you in
so that's areally cool little featurenow one that i have set up on here
isthe one that i prefer actually and thatis this windows
hellofingerprint so again this may or may notapply to you it really
depends if youhave a device that has an inbuiltfingerprint scanner now
mine does it'sjust a little square
basically when i set up
fingerprintscanning it scanned my fingerprint andnow to log in i can
just place my fingeron that little square and it will log mestraight in
so it's really quick andefficientit's also highly secure because no
twofingerprints are the same so there's nottoo much of a chance of
anybody elsebeing able to come alongput their finger on the pad and
login toyour pcso aside from those two new options
on the device
that you're usingwe have all of the other options as wellso you can
choose to sign in with a pinas opposed to a password you can sign inwith
a physical security keyyou can have a standard password or youcan even
havea picture password as well so a lot ofsigning options there and it's
reallydown to you as to personal preferenceand also what your device is
capable ofnow if i wanted to do something assimple as resetting
because
i'm using a microsoft account ifi scroll down to the bottom here you
cansee that it says changing your microsoftaccount passwordand that
essentially is going to take methroughto office 365 where i'll need to
changemy passwordand that's because i'm using a microsoftaccount you'll
see it is a little bitdifferentwhen you're using a local account
thatsimply resides on this pc
you can jump to here it's then
going toask you to open up one of your webbrowsers and it's going to
take you tosome informationwhich will talk you through how tochange that
passwordnow i'm not going to go through all ofthese options over here
but i do want tojump across tofamily and other usersand this is where i
want to delve moreinto that microsoft versuslocal account now there's
lots of
in with a microsoft account so forexample this is the
account that i useacross all of the microsoft productsso when i log into
my laptop using mymicrosoft accountand i open up applications like
exceland wordit's all tied together it's all loggedin under my
samemicrosoft account and i have easy accessto things like onedrivemy
files and it's just a very consistentway of working
necessarily
want that maybe you don'tparticularly use onedrive or anythingalong
those linesand you're happy just to have an accountwhich you log into on
the pc so you cansurf the web and do various differentbitsand that is
where you might want to usea local accountnow i want to show you a
common mistakethat people make when they're trying toadd a new
accountthey'll come into here into email and
and you'll see that
you have an adaccount button at the topnow this is where you would go if
youwanted to add an account that'sconnectedto another application soif
you want to add an account forsomeonewho has the google account you can
dothat from hereif they have an icloud account you cando that from
hereif they have an office account you can
but one of the person
that you want toadd maybe you don't know what theirlogin details are
maybe you don't knowif they havean office account or a gmail accountwhat
if you simply just want to set up anew profilea new account on your
laptop withouthaving to type in their email addressand password
detailsthat is where you would go down tofamily and otherusers now again
if you want to add a
member up hereand it says add your family
so everybodygets their own sign inand their own desktop so
essentiallypeople can customizewhat their desktop looks like and thenit
says you can help kids stay safe withappropriate websitestime limits
apps and gamesso if that sounds like an option thatwould be useful for
you you can add afamily member account from thereat the bottom we have
other users and it
your family to sign in with their ownaccounts
and this won't add them to yourfamily and you can see there that i
setupben lee as a local account so what i'mgoing to do now is i'm going
to login as ben so you can see some of thedifferences that we haveso
i've now logged in as ben and ben hasa local account and you can
seeimmediately that it'svery much personal to ben so he has hisown
desktop background completely
he has his own desktop icons and if
wejump down into the start menu you'll seethat his tiles look a lot
different tomine he has different tiles availableand if we jump up into
settings and gointo accounts you'll see that it sayslocal account
underneath there and it isalso worth noting that if you set up alocal
account you canswitch that to a microsoft accountsimply by signing in
with a microsoftaccount insteadso basically all of his settings are
his
profile so i can't then go inand try and access something likeonedrive
because i'm not logged in witha microsoft accountnow what i'm going to
do next i'm goingto show you how to set up a new accountit's a super
simple processwe're going to create a local account onthis pcso i'm
going to log back in as myselfand i'm going to show you how to do thatso
i'm now logged back in as myself andwe're going to run through the
process
machineand the process is very simple we'regoing to go
back into the start menuand we're going to jump into settingsand we're
going to go back toaccounts now this is a local accountthat i want to
set up so i'm going to gotofamily and other users and i'm going toselect
addsomeone else to this pcnow it's going to pop up andautomatically ask
you for this person's
want to set up a local account you
don'thave their email address or anythinglike that just click on i don't
havethis person'ssign-in information and once again it'sgoing to try
and get you to create anaccount on microsoftnow if you don't want to do
that we wejust select add a user without amicrosoft accountand you can
now just type in those basicdetails so i'm going to addvicky matthews
and
i'm going to give her a passwordand then you'll need to complete
threesecurity questions in case you forgetthe password so i'm going to
do thati'm then going to click next and i'llsee you in a moment and
there we go it'sas simple as that vicki matthews now hasa local account
on this machine and alli simply need to dois to send her her login
detailsand she can log in to this pc nowremoving an account is pretty
simple aswell so again if i select vicki matthews
account type so
if i wanted to switchher to a microsoft account i could dothator i can
select removeit gives you a little warning sayingthat all of her data
and anycustomization she's made are going to bedeleted now i'm okay with
that i've justadded this accounti know i can delete this fairly
safelyand there you go she's goneso very simple to set up users
anddelete them
module we're going to be doing our firstexercise
so please join me for thathello everyone and welcome back to thiscourse
on windows 10.in this module we're going to exploresome of the options
that you have withregards tohelp and support so we're going to startout
by taking a look at thevirtual assistant i'm going to show youthe tips
appand then i'm going to refer you to themicrosoft support page
as
such within windows 10at least help in the context of otherapplications
we might have used such asexcel or word but there are a number
offacilities available within windows 10which can help you out a lot if
you'restuck on somethingor if you're looking for moreinformation about
somethingnow something that was really helpful inslightly older versions
of windows 10than the one i'm currently runningis that they had a
really useful get
app which contained lots of topics
andtutorialsand videos and i found that reallyreally helpfulbut it seems
that that has now beenremoved and replaced witha couple of other
alternatives so i'mgoing toclick on my windows key now i'm going
toscroll down tog which is where get started used to befoundand you'll
see that instead we have this
area and if we click on that
it'sbasically going to take us into thisvirtual assistant where we can
talk to avirtual agent now programs like this ingeneral are running some
kind ofartificial intelligenceyou may like this kind of thing you
maynotbut i would say have a little playaround with it see how you feel
about ityou might find that it's something thatyou rely on quite a lot
when it comes togetting help
little question in here and see if
thevirtual agent can answer itso i'm going to say create a newaccount
and hit enter i can see thatshe'styping away and she says which one
didyou mean add or remove an account onwindows 10create a local account
or administratoraccount or none of the aboveso that's actually pretty
helpful i wantto createa local account let's say so i can click
and
immediately the help page guiding methrough how i would do thispops up
i'm going to give her a littlebit of feedback i'm going to sayyes that
did solve my problem and she'snow saying great you can ask me
anotherquestionso really what this does is it takesyour input and it
pulls back therelevant helppages so virtual assistant is definitelyone
to have a little play around with ifyou're stuck on a particular thing
now
might help you out a little bitif we press the windows key
again andthis time i'm going togo to my keypad and i'm going to clickont
for tips and you'll see that there isactuallyan app that's called tips
and if we openthatup you can see that we have lots ofdifferent windows
10tips they're divided down intocategories so we can see what's new
moment
is tips on how to workremotely so let's have a quick look atthat so
it's talking me through sometips to collaborate and save into onedrive
or save my files to the cloudand i can scroll through these
differenttipsso those can be quite useful as welland you can scroll
through and there'slots and lots of different categoriesthat we have in
hereand here we have getting started withwindows 10
these are
worth having a little scrollthroughparticularly if you're very new
towindows 10and even from within this app you have alittle magnifying
glass in the top whichwill allow you to search solet's say create a
themethere we go and i've got some tipsrelating tomy search item now if
you think that'sgoing to besuper useful and you want to either pin
remember
if you just right click in thetools bar you have a pin to tile
sparoption similarly if you wanted to pinthat to your start menu which
i'mactually going to do let's jump down totips againby clicking on t i'm
going to rightclickand you can see here i have an optionpin to startand
there it is just there set up as anewtile so you've got virtual
assistant and
now the final resource i'm going to showyou is
probably the one that i use mostoftenand that is simply just jumping
onto themicrosoft supportsite and you can see the url at the topthere
support.microsoft.comand this is a wealth of informationtheir library
isenormous and pretty much anything youneed to do or anything you need
helpwithyou can find in here so you can use this
and anything you
type in here willsearch throughevery help topic so if i was to
typesomethingreasonably generic like tables thatcould meani want to
create a table in excel imight want to create a table in word imight
want to create a table inoutlook it's going to search across allof
thoseif you want to be a little bit morespecific you can go into the
individual
typing in your search term so i'm goingto say more
microsoft productsand i'm going to select windows 10because that's what i
need help withand hopefully at the top here it saysselect your product
so we've got windows10 but if you are in windows 8.1 user or7 then you
still have some help filesavailableto you and again these help files
areall divided down into categories sointernet and storage i'm currently
ini've got some tips to improve
my individual categories at the
bottomthereso again it really depends exactly whatit is that i'mlooking
for help on but this is a wealthof information this websiteand something
i would definitely havebookmarked in your browserso you can quickly
jump there and accessthe wealth of informationnow at the top here we
have this menurunning across so if i click on what'snew
to show
me everything that's beenupdated in windows 10 recently sowindows 10 is
always being updatedand it's good to sort of keep on top ofthose changes
so you canreally get on board with anything newthat's releasedand
another tab that i find quite goodin here is this communitytab so this
essentially takes youthrough into the microsoft communityforum and there
is a huge community ofmicrosoft users
that's quite tricky it's
always worthjumping onto the community forum postingit and guaranteed
somebody's going tocome up with somethingthat's either going to help you
out fixyour problemor just give you a lot more informationthan you
knewprior to making the post you can scrollthrough the topics you can
click on themto read and you can make a postif you need to so that is it
so whilstthere isn't a dedicated
numerous features between the
virtualassistant the tips appand that microsoft support page thatshould
be enough to help you out withanyquestions that you have when it comes
toworking with windows 10.that's it for this module i will see youin the
nexthello everyone welcome back to thiscourse on windows 10.in this
module we're going to be takinga look at windows updates
through
some of the basics ofupdating windows we're then going tolook at some of
the advanced optionsthat you haveand then finally we're going to take
alook at how you can keep all your appsupdatedbut first let's start out
with thosewindows update basicsnow your windows 10 system will
updateautomaticallybut you do have some options and alsosome control
and
we're going to head straight forsettingsand right at the bottom the
last optionin the list isupdate and security and this is whereyou'll
findall of your windows updates so you cansee this first page that i get
to hereit's telling meall of the updates that are currentlyavailable
for my pcand you can see that they're all showingas pending install
now
the way that this works is that allof these updates willautomatically
install so if i do nothingthese updates are going to
installthemselvesand you can see right at the bottomthere it says will
automatically installupdates when you aren't using yourdeviceor you can
install them now if you wantso if i want to just get them out theway
maybe i've got a sparehour where i'm not doing so much or
to get
those updates installedi can just click the install now buttonto install
all of them nowotherwise windows is going to select atime when i'm not
using my device inorder to install those for menow you do have some
other optionsunderneath which gives you a little bitof controlas to when
these updates are installedso if you wanted to you could pause
yourupdates for sevendays so again maybe if you are working
something
like i'm doing here a windowscourse maybe i want to make sure that
mysystem doesn't change too dramaticallywhilst i'm writing this courseso
i might want to pause any updates forseven daysand you can see here it
says visitadvanced options to change that pauseperiod so maybe you want
to pause it forlonger than that you can do that fromthis advanced
options area at the bottomthereyou can also change your active hours so
install
of updatesis invisible to you so you don't get anyindication on the
screen the updates areactually being installed in thebackgroundbut
sometimes once updates have beenstored a restart is neededand sometimes
that's not particularlyconvenient particularly if you're in themiddle of
your working dayand you can't really afford to restartyour pcand maybe
wait 10 to 15 minutes in order
installingso in order to ensure
that your updatesare installed when you're not using yourdeviceyou can
change your active hours so whatyou can do is you can set your
activehours to let windows knowwhen you typically use this device so
ifyou're particularly busy between nineand fivethen you can change your
active hours tothat time periodand windows won't install updates during
so
you can see here mine is set fromeight to five and i have a little
changelink thereif i need to change that if i want tolook atupdates that
i've installed previously ican view my update historyand you also have
an option to uninstallupdates somaybe you've noticed that an update
thatwas installedyesterday is causing some problems withyour system
update
and roll your systemback and then finally the bottom we
haveadvancedoptions now in here we have a few otheroptionsso at the top
there it says receiveupdates for other microsoft productswhen you update
windowsnow i like to have this turned onbecause it's really important
to me tomake sure all of my other applicationssuch asword excel
powerpoint outlook are all
constantly so i like to receive
anyupdates for those applications whenwindows is being updatedas well so
i have that option toggled onnow i'm not going to go through all ofthe
options that we have in here but onei will highlightis this restart this
device as soon aspossible when a restart is required toinstall anupdate
now as i was saying sometimeswhen updates occur the system willrestart
and then after that restart
windows has to doto make that system
usable so yoursystem can be out of actionfor a little while now again if
you wantto have some kind of control as to whenthat happens so maybe
you don't want itto happen in the middle of the day whenyou're super
busy and you don't have thetime to wait for thoseupdates i would leave
this optiontoggled off because you don't want it torestart the deviceas
soon as possible so definitely check
options as well when it
comes to howyou're managing your updatesnow when it comes to updating
any appsthat you have on your pcand again those of us that use
mobilephones that have appson them we're probably fairly used tothat
process ofupdating our apps and it works in a verysimilar wayin windows
so i'm going to jump acrossto the microsoftstore and if you want to see
if any of
if you click on the three dots in thetop right hand
cornerthe top option you have there isdownloads and updates and this is
goingto do a quick check of all yourapplicationsand it's going to see if
any of themrequire an updateand you can see there at the top i
havethree apps that haveupdates available and it's a very
simpleprocessof just clicking the update all button
and if you
want to check for any updatesyou have the getupdates button at the top
there and thatwill just essentially do a refreshand if anything new
needs to be updatedit's going to be added to that list atthe topand you
can see there as i've clickedthat button we have one of
themautomatically downloadingand then the others require me tomanually
install themnow another thing to check up here is if
let's jump
into settings for ourmicrosoft storebecause there are some features in
herewhich also relate to updatesyou can see the top one there updateapps
automatically i have that turned onand you just saw one of those apps
thatupdates automaticallyso i have update apps automaticallyturned onand
i do recommend that you do have thatturned on because that's just going
tomake everything a lot more efficient
turned on now we haven't
really spokentoo much about live tiles so let's justtalk about that for
one momenti'm going to click the cross to come outhere and i'm going to
goback to my tiles now i don't have thisturned on on too many of my
tiles butone thing that i do have turned onis on the weather tile this
isshowing live updates so you can see thattile is kind of moving it's
refreshingand so is that news tile so this is whatwe call
some
people find it quite distractingyou can right click go to more and
sayturnlive tile off so that's pretty much itwhen it comes to how you
canmanage and handle your updates the keytakeaway here isthat windows
updates will automaticallyinstallbut it's very important that you go
inand you check your settings to make surethat they're installing at a
time that'sconvenient for you
as long as you have that setting
turnedon those apps willupdate automatically alternatively youcan just
click the button to installthem manually from the downloads andupdates
sectionin the windows store fairlystraightforwardthanks for listening
guys i will see youin the next modulehi guys and welcome back to this
courseon windows 10.in this module we're going to talk a
in
desktop mode nowapps run in desktop mode and for manypeople desktop
modeis the mode used most of the time unlessyou're utilizing a tablet
deviceand just a recap of something we learnedearlier if you clickall
the way down in the bottom righthand corner and click on the
actioncenterif you need to switch into tablet modeyou have the option to
do so from hereso it's a very quick
so in this module i'm going
to give youan overview of the windows 10 desktopwe're going to take a
look at managingyour desktop iconsi'm going to show you something
calledpeak and showand i'm going to show you how you canutilize
multipledesktops so let's start out by reviewingsome of the options that
we haveon the windows 10 desktop now as we'vementioned before if we
look at thetaskbar at the bottom
currently have runningbased on
the fact that they have a blueline underneath themand whichever one we
have open on topthat one is referred toas the active task now a couple
of otherthings that we haven't mentioned yet sofar again down here in
thatnotifications areayou'll see that we have this littlekeyboard icon
and this is the touchkeyboard soobviously if you don't have a touch
use
this by clickingon the number pad using your mouse butthis is primarily
designed for peoplewho havetouch screens or some kind of touchdevice
you can type thingsusing your finger now your desktopmay look a bit
different to mine theaspect ratio might be different so forexamplei'm
using a wide screen you might alsohave a different background image to
meand of course you can personalize this
and we're going to talk a
lot more abouthow you can really personalize itset up the images you
want to use thethemes the colors all of those kinds ofthingsin later
modules now when it comes tomanaging our desktop iconsif you recall
again we spoke about thesevery briefly in a previous modulei don't tend
to have too many icons onmy desktop i don't really likea really busy
looking desktop i preferto
applications to the taskbarhowever i
do have three icons up there ihave my recycle bin because i find
thatquite useful to be able to jump toreally quicklyi have my microsoft
edge browser and ialso have a link to camtasia which isthe app i use to
record these videosnow the only reason i have microsoftedge and camtasia
on my desktopis because i've recently downloadedthose andwindows
automatically creates that
so in reality what i would probably
dois come in and delete those shortcutsbecause i already have
thoseapplications pinned to my taskbarbut for demonstration purposes in
thismodule i'm going to leave them justtherei will say though that
despite mypreference for adding things to thetaskbarif you look at mine
you can see mytaskbar is pretty muchfull up if i wanted to start adding
start
getting a little bit busy lookingthere is a lot more spaceon your
desktop so it might be that youwant to move some of thoseshortcuts onto
the desktop if you findyourself running out of roomon that taskbar now
let's take a look atsome of the customizations you can dofor these
desktop shortcuts and that'sall theyare you can see that they have a
littlearrow on thembasically means it's just a way of
particular
applicationis stored and the reason why that isimportant is because
sometimes peoplethink that if you delete a shortcut fromthis desktopit
deletes the entire application don'tworry it doesn't it simply deletes
thatshortcut linkso let's take a look at some of theother things that we
can do tocustomize these icons and our desktopso i'm going to right
click my mouseanywhere on that empty desktop
view so this lets
mecustomize how large i have those iconsat the moment i have them as
mediumif i wanted to do them as large you cansee they're extremely big a
bit too bigthereor you have small in there as well soagainentirely up
to you how you want to havethe sizing onthose icons i like mine at
mediumso let's right click again and we have asort by option
desktop
iconsin a more logical sequence so it mightbe that you want to arrange
them byname or size or item type or the datethat they were modified
sothe most recently installed or usedwould be at the topnow you can also
rearrange them yourselfso just by clicking and dragging theseicons it
might be that i decide i wantthem runninghorizontally across the screen
asopposed to vertically down the screen
drag and if you're using a
touch deviceyou would use your finger to do the samethingnow the icons
that you see in windows 10in generalare standard windows icons and
they'rethe same for everybody soeverybody will have the same icon
forfile explorer everybody will have thesame icon for recycle binby
default but you can actually changethese iconsif you want to so again if
we right
and jump down to the personalize areaand this is anarea
we're going to be in and out ofthroughout the precedingsections now i
want you to jump down tothetheme section and we're going to ignoreall of
this at the moment and go rightdown to the bottomwhere it says this
little link heredesktop iconsettings now these desktop icons withthe
check boxes next to them these are
windows desktop icons and you
can seethat i only haveone of them checked because i'm onlyshowing the
recycle bin on my desktop idon't havemy computer or network or control
panelor anything like thatbut if you wanted to you could tickthese if
you wanted to see more of themsoagain if i click on computer and clickon
okand just move this window out the way
that's been createdwhich
jumps me straight to this pcin file explorer so let's jump back
intothat linkand i'm going to untick computer becausei don't want that
on therenow another thing you have in here is ifyou do want to change
the icon for anyof thesemaybe you want something else for yourrecycle
bin you do have the option toselect it and then you have change iconand
it will take you into this little
icons that windows provides and
you canchange that to something that you like alittle bit better sojust
be aware that you can turn on andturn offthose windows standard icons
to add themto your desktop and you can also changethat icon if you want
tonow a lot of applications when youinstall them will have their
ownassigned icon so i'm in file explorer atthe momentand you can see
here that i have access
my onedrive cloud storage and that
comeswith its own little blue cloudicon now if i wanted to make onedrive
ashortcut on my desktop all i need to dois right clickgo down to send
to and one of theoptions i have thereis desktop create shortcutso if i
select that you can now see thatthat's added that to my desktopanother
way that you can add items as adesktop shortcut iconis if we go into the
start menu and let
something like let's just grab
thiscalculatoryou can click dragand drop and that will very
quicklycreate a little link for youas well and if you want to remove any
ofthese it's a simple process of rightclicking you have the delete
option inthere and as i mentioned beforeit doesn't delete the
application itjust deletes that shortcutso a good little exercise for
you now isjust to practice
your desktopnow another really useful
feature ofwindows 10 is thepeak feature and you've probably seen alittle
sneak preview of this as we'vebeen going through the courseso far so if
you have severalapplications open and you want to accesssomethingon
your desktop but you can't see thedesktop so currentlyi have microsoft
edge web browser takingup the entire screen i can't see
if i
wanted to jump to an excelspreadsheet that i haveopen instead of going
through andminimizing downeach window i have open to try and findwhat
i'm looking fora real quick way of doing it is to hoverover the icon so
in this caseexcel and it's going to give me a littlepreview ofall of the
excel spreadsheets that icurrently have openand you can see i have
three of them
particulari can just hover my mouse over it
andclick to selectand that essentially pulls it to thefront so this is a
really nice feature iuse thisall the time when i'm working with lotsof
different open documentsin order to be able to move aboutefficiently now
another option i want tospeak to you about is using multipledesktops so
it might be that you havelots of different applications open you
excel
windows openand i want to arrange them in a certainwaynow if we jump
down to the taskbar andwe need to right click on the taskbarthere is an
option in here to cascadewindowsthat kind of arranges them in a
slightlybetter way so if i want topull one to the front i can click on
thebar and that will bring that one to thefrontnow i will say this isn't
an option that
find it the most efficient way ofworkingbut some
people really like it so justremember that you have access to itin that
right click menu in the taskbarnow if you're someone who really doeswork
with lots and lots of differentapps and constantly has lots of
thingsopenso much so that your desktop is reallygetting full upit's hard
to switch between applicationsbecause you have so many things open
is
creating a seconddesktop so what i'm going to do is i'mgoing to go back
down to my taskbarand you'll see that we have an iconthere which is
just to the left of mygoogle chromeand that is task view we did go
intothis earlierbut if i click it it shows me all of myopenapplications
in a way that's easy for metosee all in one go now one thing that you
is
right at the top we have an optionfor newdesktop so if i click new
desktopit allows me to have a second desktopyou can see i can switch
between them sodesktop one contains all of theapplications i currently
have openand i can now have a completelydifferent desktopwhich has
nothing running so essentiallythis is almost like having two
differentcomputers so if you find that you'rerunning out of space on one
desktop
create another one and you can open upas many
applications as you likeswitching between them again is just asimple
case of going to taskview and switching between yourdifferent desktopsif
you decide you no longer need one ifyou hover over in this case desktop
2you have that little cross to get rid ofthat desktopso again a really
nice way of managingyour windowsif you're someone who has loads and
at
any given time all right everyonethat is all we haveon working in
desktop mode for thismodulein the next module we're going to betaking a
little bit more of a lookat managing and using the taskbar soplease join
me for thathello everyone and welcome back to ourcourse on windows
10.we're still down in section 3 and inthis module we're going to
betalking about how to manage and use the
so we're going to start
out by walkingthrough thetaskbar contents i'm going to show yousome
options that you have withintaskbar settings we're going to look
attaskbartoolbars and finally we're going to lookattaskbar contentsso
let's start out by taking a look atour taskbarcontents now this is
something thatwe've touched on in previous modules
depth in this
module and look at some ofthe features that we haven't yetdiscussedso
firstly let's move down over to theleft hand side of the taskbarand you
can see that we have a box therethat says type here to search so thisis
your search bar if you're looking foranything on your pcyou can come in
here you can type yoursearch term and it's going to go awayand find it
so that might be anapplication that might be
setting so this is
essentially auniversal search that searches for yourkeyword
acrosseverything on your pc and that alsoincludes things likefiles and
documents as well now we havea whole section dedicated tosearching so
i'm just going to leavethat there for nownow just to the left of that
where youcan see that little circlethis is cortana so cortana would
besomething similar to
or even something like amazon's
alexadeviceit uses speech recognition so you cantalk to cortanayou can
ask her questions and you canget her to deliver the answer to youand
again we're going to do a demo ofthis in a latermodule but just so you
know if you wantto start up cortana and ask her aquestionthat is the
button that you can click onin order to do that
you don't happen
to see that cortanabutton thereif you right click on your taskbaryou can
see that you have an optionthere show cortana button so if youdon't
have that ticked then you're notgoing to see it so just make sureyou
have a little tick next to thatoptionnow we've already talked about
addtaskbar icons in quite a lot of detailso i'm going to move straight
acrossagain to this notifications
fullat the moment and if i
click this littleup arrow it's going to show meall of the little icons
that there isn'tspace forin my notifications area so don't forgetin that
up arrow you'll have otherlittle icons in there as wellnow one thing
you can do to giveyourself a little bit more space in thistaskbar areais
if you right click your mouse you cansee there's an option there that i
lock
the taskbar so it locks it into itsposition the position that it's
innow and it doesn't let me make it anybigger or any smallernow if you
turn this off so let's justuncheck that optionwhat that means is i can
now grab thistask bar and you can see i get thatdouble headed arrowi can
drag it up and it gives me moreroom on my taskbarso if i then wanted to
click the uparrow i could
hasn't had enough room to go on
thatnotifications areaand i could drag it and drop it downontomy taskbar
similarly if i want to removesomethingi can drag and i can drop itback
to where it was now if you have awidertaskbar that also gives you more
room toplace your taskbar icon so again ifyou're somebody who doesn't
like havingthem
desktop you might choose todo this have a
slightly bigger taskbarand put more of your applications on itnow this
isn't something that iparticularly like to do i like to beable to see
the greatest amount of myscreen soi tend to keep my taskbar lockednow as
you can probably imagine withthese notification icons you can dragthem
about in order to rearrange them soif i want to move my onedrivei can
just click and drag that icon and
you can rearrange those icons
set themup how you wantnow other options that you have withregards to
the taskbar if weright click on the taskbar again you cansee at the top
here we havecertain items checked so we just came inhere and i told you
about checking thatcortana buttonbut you also have the option to hide
orshow the task view button which is thislittle icon down herewhich
allows us to get an overview of
and also create multiple desktops
if wewant toif you find you never use that optionthat might be
something that you don'twant to show to give yourself a bit moreroom on
that taskbarnow i also have show touch keyboardbutton showingand another
cool little one is showtouchpad buttonso if i click that you can see i
now getthis little touch pad and thisessentially mimics
so you
can see there you have your mousearea so you can see there you have
yourmouse buttons and you can utilize thatin a verysimilar way now i
don't particularlyneed that so i'm just going toturn that offso the
other important option in here toknow about istaskbar settingsso this is
where you can really come inand modify exactly how that taskbaris
managed so you can see again we have
and these are all little
toggle slidersso it makes it very easy to enable ordisable certain
elements of your taskbari could choose to automatically hide thetaskbar
completely in desktop mode so ifi was to turn thaton you can see my
taskbar has nowdisappeared now i don't particularlylike this optioni
always like to see my taskbar ingeneral butif you don't you can turn
that on i'mgoing to turn my back off
the same option thereas well
you have an option of usingsmall taskbarbuttons so if i turn that on
you can seethey then become very tiny now this isanother really great
way if you like tohave lots and lots of things pinned tothat taskbarthat
gives you a lot more space i'mgoing to turn mine offnow that peak
feature that we spokeabout earlier if you remember when youhover over it
gives you a little preview
open for that particular application
ifyou don't like that for some reasonand some people do not you can
choose toturn that off just here as wellnow a couple of other options i
want tohighlight in here um thistaskbar location so by default
yourtaskbar is going to be across the bottomof your screen andfor 99.9
of people thisis adequate it's very very rare that isee somebody who has
their taskbarlocated somewhere else
place it at the top of my
screen whichputs out therenow that looks incredibly strange to mebecause
i have been using it with thetaskbar at the bottom for years
andyearsyou could also choose to put it on theleft or the rightof the
screen now as i said i prefer iton the bottom but it's very muchpersonal
preference now something elsethat you have is this combinetaskbar
buttons and i have mine set to
hide labels now if i was to change
thisto neverjust look down in the taskbar whathappens when i select
this optionnow i've got quite a lot on there sothis option is a little
bit pointlessbut if you did haveless apps pinned to your taskbar
it'sgoing to show you the name of thatapplication next to it as wellso
again that might be something thatyou find particularly useful if you
findit quite difficult distinguishing
the different applications
purely basedon the iconso i like to say always hide labelsso a few
options in there for you todefinitely check out and customizenow another
option you have in here isthis showdesktop option now this is
particularlyuseful again if you have a lot of thingsopen on your screen
and you want toquickly just jump back to your plain olddesktop then
clicking this icon willminimize everything that you have open
is
also a keyboardshortcut for this as well and that iswindows keyd that
will take you back to yourdesktop and minimize everything downinto your
taskbarwhenever you press that option now alsostaying on that themeif we
right click and go up to toolbarsrightat the top you have an option
here fordesktop as well which works slightlydifferently to the one we've
just looked
so if i click desktop you'll see now inthe taskbar i
get this little desktopoption and there's two little arrowsmoving off
to the right hand sidenow if i click that it essentiallyallows me to
navigate around my desktopsoif i want to select a file from onedrivei
can select onedrive i can go todocuments and it's going to show meall of
my folders so i can go throughand essentially it's like working infile
explorer but from
little option that you quite like tohave downon
your taskbar now again i don'tparticularlylike this option so i'm going
to jumpback in and i'm just going to turn offthat desktop featurenow
the final thing i want to talk toyou about in taskbar settingsis if we
right click and jump backinto taskbar settings let'sscroll down to this
little notificationsarea
on the taskbaror we can turn system
icons on or offso let's go into select which iconsappearand you can see
here this is where wecan customize what icons we actually seedown in
this notifications area andagain these are justslider toggles so you can
see the onesthat i have turned on so i can seemy microphone i can see
my wi-fi networki can seemy onedrive my power and my volume
becausethey're
not of particular interest to mei don't need to see them all the timeso
definitely go in there and reviewwhat you can see on that
taskbarnotifications areaso that is it in relation to the taskbarand
that notifications areahave a little practice with that playaround
modify the things that you canseein that notifications area and
reallyget it set up so that
important to youin the next module
we're going to talkabout using that search box and alsocortana so please
join me for thathello everyone and welcome back to thiscourse on
windows 10.in this module we're going to explorehow to utilize the
search boxand also cortana and both of these arekind of used forsimilar
purposes so first we're going tolook at how you can utilize these
searchbox to
a file an application an app a desktopprogram or
maybe even something on theweband then i'm going to show you how youcan
utilize cortana which is going toallow you to searchusing your voice so
first uplet's look at the search box now thesearch box is located down
in thattaskbar areaover on the left hand side and it's veryobvious it
saystype here to search and this is a
to search througheverything
on your laptop andalso the web depending on your searchtermso if i
click in the search box and istart to type what i'm looking for solet's
say that i'm looking for the paintapplicationi'm going to type in p and
you'll see asi start typingwindows is already running a search sonow
it's showing methe most relevant items related to the
there is
power and sleep settingsnow obviously the more that you type theword the
more accurateit gets so if i type in the entire wordpaint you can see
that the best match isthe paint app and then i also have someother apps
there paint 3dnow i can refine my search a little bitmoreyou can see
just above currently theblue underlineis underneath where it says all
sothat's literally searching
however if i'm only interested
insearching for an app called painti could select apps what about if i
havea document that containsthe word paint i can search for it thatwayor
alternatively i can click on the webjust to see any web resultsfor the
word paint and then i have moreoptions at the side here i can
searchthrough emailfolders my music library contacts photosall things
stick
with alland once it's found your item you canjust click on itto open up
that particular applicationnow you can also use the search box ifyou're
looking for a particular file soif i type insales for example you can
see the bestmatch there is the sales 2017excel file that i have there
and then ihave some search resultsfrom the web related to my search
termand then some more documents listed
now i can also use the
search box tosearch for umwebsites if i type in wikipedia you cansee
their best match wikipedia i canselect it and it's going to jump
mestraight to the search results andwikipedia is the top one up therei
can also search for folders so if i'mlooking for a particular folder
withinfile exploreri can type that in and you can see therethe best
match is my coursefiles folder so a really powerful really
that
if i'm looking for something on mypc i alwaysuse the search bar as
opposed to cominginto the start menuand scrolling through looking
forwhatever it is that i want to look foreven if i'm looking for a
particularsettingso for example if i wanted to know howto adjust the
brightness on my pci would type inadjust brightness and you can see
theirbest match
it's going to jump mestraight to that particular
item withinsettings so i find this super usefulnow let's get on to
speaking a littlebit about cortana becausecortana is pretty exciting as
imentioned before she's very similar tosomething likesiri if you're used
to using siri onyour mobile phoneand also very similar to something
likethe amazon alexa deviceso cortana is there as kind of a virtual
activated
by your voice and she's thereto help you find things on your pcsearch
things on the web andalso answer any questions that you havenow if
you've never used cortana beforeit's definitely worthjumping onto the
microsoft site andlooking for cortana so you can see therethe url is
just microsoft.com forwardslash cortanawhere you'll have a really useful
videowhich will walk you through some of themain elements of using
cortana
this video[Music]now one important thing when it comes
toutilizing cortanais that she needs to be able tounderstand your
voiceso it's very important that you do speakclearlyand i will say that
cortana does improvethe more you use itnow i will say that you also kind
ofneed to knowhow to structure and ask your question
provide you
with the best results andthis does take a little bit of practicebut as
long as you keep your sentencesfairly simpleand you speak them clearly
then youshould find that she's quite usefulto you now there are a few
settings whenit comes to cortana that are worthreviewingso what i'm
going to do is i'm going toutilize the search bar at the bottom andi'm
going to type in cortanaand you can see my top option there is
jump
me into my settingsfor cortana now i'm going to go to thistalk
tocortana option now a couple of things iwant to point out in here now
whenyou're utilizing cortanayou can just say your question and shewill
reply to youhowever you can set it so that cortanaresponds tohey cortana
and if you set this it sayscortana will always respond to heycortana
even when your device
that cortana uses morebattery life when
this is on becauseshe's essentially always listeningfor the words hey
cortana so my personalpreference is to have thisturned off you can also
invoke cortanaby using a keyboard shortcut which isthe windows logo
keyplus c and you can choose if you wantcortana to be able to listen to
youeven when your device is locked now iactually have that turnedon
because sometimes i might be away
and i might need to ask a
question so ilike to just be able to say my questionwithout unlocking my
entire machinenow when it comes to setting up yourlanguage it says here
cortana works bestwhen the language you select herematches the region
on your deviceand it says at the moment cortana isusing english united
kingdombut if you wanted to change that you canchoose a different onenow
if you want some tips about how tostructure questions how to chat with
there
is a link at the bottom here whichis going to take you through to a
webpage which will give you some usefultips when it comes to
interactingwith cortana now probably the mostimportant option hereis
right at the top it's your microphoneyou want to make sure that
cortanacan hear you so it is worth just testingout cortana to make sure
that she canhear you now currently i have aexternal microphone plugged
into thisdevice so i can record this video
unplugged and it would
just be utilizingthe microphone that's built into mylaptopso if you
find that when you start upcortana and nothing happens it might bethat
you have a problemwith your microphone and at that pointit's worth going
into this check themicrophone linkand going through this little wizard
totry and work out any of the issues thatyou're havingwith your
microphone but nine times out
cortana works straight off the
batstraight after your install of windowsas it's just utilizing the
microphonethat's built into your devicenow for the purpose of
thisdemonstration i'm actually going to turnon this option here forhey
cortana and then i'll turn it offand show you how it works the other
wayso let's turn that on i'm going to clickcloseand if i want to bring
up or invokecortana all i need to say
what's the weather like in
london todaythe forecast in london england showspartly sunny skies with a
high of 27 anda low of 15 degreesright now it is sunny and 26.so very
quickly she's pulled up thatweather forecast for londonfor me now if i
close her down just byclicking on the crossand i'm actually going to
jump back intothose cortanasettings for one momentand i'm going to turn
off that hey
option and close it downso now if i say the word hey
cortanashe's not going to popup in order to invoke cortana i wouldneed
to click on the cortana buttonthat's to the right of my search box andi
can utilize cortana for thingslike setting alarms so let's see how
wewould do thatso i'm going to click on cortanaset alarm for 2 59pm and
there we go you can seeimmediately that's popped up with the
for
thingson the web so let's invoke cortana againwho won the x factor in
2012.and there we go she's pulled back thatresult for meand cortana is
pretty unrestricted inwhat it can look for it can search theweb it can
search for things on your pcand provide you with lots of reallyuseful
informationshe can also do things like play songsnowwindows 10 has its
own song
i'm going to click in thesearch bar here and search for
groovemusicand this is somewhere you can store allof your mp4s your
music files now idon't actually have mine stored ingroove music i havemy
music library elsewhere but if youhadmp4s and songs listed in here you
couldalso utilize cortana in order to playthose songs from your
musiclibrary so lots of really good uses for
check your settings
make sure sherecognizes your voice and yourmicrophone is picking up your
voicespeak clearly and simply and you shouldfindno problems that's it
for this modulein the next module we're going to doexercise 2so please
join me for thathi everyone and welcome back to ourcourse on windows
10.in this very quick module we're justgoing to finish off talking about
because
there are stilla few important points that we haven'ttalked about yetso
we're going to start out just bygoing through your notification
settingsand then i'm going to show you how youcan customize what you
seein your action center now there arenumerous different ways to getting
toyour notification settingsbut as we've just been utilizing thesearch
bar in previous modulesi'm going to use that so i'm going to
and
i'm going to type in notificationsand you can see the best match
optionthere is notificationsand actions setting which is exactlywhat i'm
looking fornow quick actions at the top we're goingto come back to that
a bit later for nowi want to focus onnotifications now if you're
somebody wholikes to be notifiedvisually when something happens so
forexampleif an alarm goes off you might like to
corner of your
screenor if you receive a new email maybe youwant to see that as
wellthis is where you can customize whichapps can send you
notificationsnow if you're somebody who doesn't likenotifications at all
you don't likethose little pop-up bannersthen you have a little slider
optionhere to turn off all of yournotificationsnow in general i keep
this on except ifi'm doing something
and sharing my desktop i
really don'twant other peopleto see pop-ups of emails that i've
gotcoming inso that might be when i would togglethis option offyou also
have some other optionsunderneath with regards to yournotifications so
if you want them to bedisplayed on the lock screen then put acheckin
that box and i don't if you rememberright at the beginning of the course
i
actually have this option turned onand it was showing me that i
hadthree unread emails you can also dothings like show reminders and
incomingcalls on the lock screenand if you want your notifications
toplay sounds then make sure you have atick in that boxso all of these
are very much personalpreference but go inreview them and turn on the
ones thatyou're interested innow you can also specify which
from
and i find this particularly usefulbecause there are some things that
ilike to be notified about and otherthings that i don'tso i'm not
particularly that interestedin having a pop-up banner when i receivea
new emailso i can come in here and i can turnthatoff so that means that
if iam in something like a webinar where i'msharing my desktopi can
still see other notifications but
emailscoming in and showing on
the screen nowthe rest of theseagain these are personal preference
buti'm going to leave the rest of theseon and what i'm actually going to
dojust to show you that notificationpop-up is i'm quickly going to
setan alarm so we can utilize oursearch again down here and i'm going
totype inalarm and it takes me to alarms andclock so you can already see
how useful
is for quickly finding things on your pcnow i'm going
to set an alarm for aboutone minute's time so what time are we at3 22
so let's say 324 p.m which is in about a minute's timei'm going to click
save at the bottomandwhen that alarm activates in one minuteyou will
see a notification pop up inthe corner of my screenand there you go
there is my alarmso jump in here and customize what youwant to see
to
you about which is in hereis if we scroll right back to the top iwant
to talk to you about thesequick actions and it says here you canadd
removal rearrange your quick actionsdirectly in the actioncenter so
quick actions relate to theaction center so let's pull up theaction
center againand we're talking about these littletilesso if you remember
the action center isa quick way just to turn off or turn
so for
example if i want to switch totablet mode i havemy little quick action
button there inorder to do thatnow of course you can customize what
youseein here and make it relevant to what youuse and you would do that
by clicking onthis link hereedit your quick actions so now you cansee
that i can go inand i can make changes to what i'mseeing in here so if i
want to move
i can pick up and i can drag andrepositioni can
also click on this little pin iconin the cornerand that's going to
remove that quickactionso it's a good idea to go through theseand just
removeany that you don't think you're going touseso i'm going to remove
flight mode aswelllet's remove project and yeah i'm pretty
now if
i wanted to re-add any of thosequick actions if i click the add
buttonyou can see there they still are i canclick themto add them back
in so essentially youhave a standardset of quick actions that you can
add orremovefrom this area and once you're happywith your layout click
on doneand you're all set to go that's it forthis module on
notifications and actionsin the next module we're going to be
dialog
boxes so please join me for thathello everyone welcome back to
ourcourse on windows 10.in this module we're going to be takinga look at
using windowsand dialogs now if you've used anearlier version of
windows then this isone of those sections that you canprobably givea
miss because what we're going to do iswe're going to look at the
ribboninterface and if you haven't usedwindows before then this section
is
looking at the general use of windowsand dialogsand we're
going to be using a couple ofapplicationsso i'm going to start out by
running youthrough the features of windowswe're going to move into
moving andresizing windowswe're going to talk about dialoguesmenusand
finally the ribbonso first let's start out by taking alook at some of
the features
that i'm going to openan application and i'm going
to open thenotepad applicationso i'm going to use my search box at
thebottom i'm going to type in notepadi can see there it is at the top
clickto opennow notepad is essentially a very simplelittle windowjust
allows you to type in any notesthat you have very quickly andeasily and
you can save these files andthey save us dot
you to justopen and
read if you want to or you canimport that information into
anotherapplication such as exceland this is one of the
standardapplications that will comewith windows so if you have
windowsyou're going to have the notepadapp now if we delve back into
thehistory of microsoft going all the wayback to the 80swe had this
concept of windows rightfrom the very start which of course is
and
windows give a consistent way ofinteracting with your pcnow i will say
that with the advent ofsome of these universalapps that we can download
from themicrosoft store this consistency hasgone because as i
mentionedbefore within these apps they have theirown menu systems and
their own way ofworkingbut you'll find with any of the windowsnative
apps they generally follow thesame kind
forthso let's take a look
at this window inthe top right hand corner we have thesethreelittle
buttons just here so if i hovermy mouse over this first onethis one is
minimize if i click itit just minimizes that particularapplication down
into my taskbarand you can see there the app is stillopen i just need to
clickin order to restore that applicationthe next button along that i
have is the
in a reasonablysmall window if i wanted to make
thisfull screen if i just click that buttonit's going to make it full
screenyou can then see that that icon changesso it says to me restore
downwhich is going to put it back to how itwas originallyand then the
final button we have thereis the close button so if i want toclose this
windowi can just click that cross and you cansee it's gone
in my
taskbarnow if you are operating within a windowyou might find that
window may havemany panes or panels now this one inparticular doesn't
but we will look atsome examples of that a bit later onbut what you will
find is that allwindows have a title barand the title bar is used for a
fewthings first of all it tells me what i'mworking onso you can see
here it currently saysuntitled
application i'm usingnow if i was
to go in and say file saveasi can then choose to name this assomething
else and you can see there atthe bottom it saysfile name and i'm just
going to click inthe front hereand i'm going to name this my firstfile
it's telling me it's going to nameit as a dot txtwhich is the default
file format fornotepad files
title bar has now changedto
myfirstfile.txt and because i savethat to my desktop you can now see
it'salso there on the desktop giving me easyaccess when i need to open
thisnow when it comes to moving and resizingwindows that's also very
easyif i want to move this window aroundagain all i need to do is click
on thattitle bar areaand drag it around and you can see i canpretty much
place that wherever i likeremember that if you go too far over to
feature
in windows comes into playwhich when i let go is going to snap itand i
can fill the screen with anotherapplication that i haveopen if i choose
to i can also resizethis window simply by draggingthose boundary lines
so if i hover overthe right hand side you'll see i getthat double headed
arrowi can drag it in i can do the same onthe bottomi can drag it up i
can even dragdiagonally so when i hover my mouse
diagonal double
headed arrowthat's going to allow me to freelydrag that to the size that
i wantwhat you'll also notice is that mostwindows will have some kind
of scrollbarnow you can see that i don't haveanything in this document
at the momentthat requires me to scroll downso i have no scroll bar
thereessentially but if i was to press returna few timesyou can see now
that scroll bar becomes
up and down my document and you'll
findthat is fairly standardacross all of your windows applicationsso
let's move on to talking aboutdialogsnow dialogs are a special kind of
windowso let me show you an example of adialog boxnow i'm going to go up
to file here andi'm going to say openand what i have here now is a
dialog boxand what this means is that whilst i'musing or working within
this dialog box
notepad if i try and move this dialogbox out the
way and try to typesomething oreven click in this window it's not
goingto let me because i have a dialog boxopenand a dialog box allows me
to perform aspecific action so in this caseit's allowing me to open any
file that ihave saved offnow i'm just going to navigate thiscourse
files folderand i'm going to open notepad test.txt
the name in
the title bar up there andyou can see i just have some testtext in that
file so i can now carry ontyping in this particular file if i wanttobut
if i'm finished with this file if ijump up tofile and click exit that's
going toclose my notepad file but it's alsogoing to close the entire
applicationnow if i want to open a file and i'mgoing to click file
andopen again it might be that the file i
isn't listed in here so
by default i'mnotessentially being pointed to the correctfolderand you
can see just above you can seewhich folders i'min so i'm in the online
courses folderwindows 10course files and then underneath it'sshowing me
all of the files that arecontained withinthat folder so it might bethat
if this is the incorrect folder i
so i just do that by scrolling
up andselecting the location where that fileis stored so i'm going to go
back to mydesktop where i havemy first file dot txtnow another thing i
can do from withinhere and i'm going to make this windowslightly bigger
just by dragging it outis if i want to see a preview of thatfilebefore i
open it so maybe i'm not sureif this is the correct file and i needto
see the contents
says showpreview pane now this file doesn't
haveanything in it whatsoever so what i'mgoing to do is i'm going to
double clickto open itand i'm just going to type some textinto here i'm
going to sayfile and save and now if i go back tofile and open click on
my fileyou can now see in the preview pane it'sdisplaying the contents
of that fileso the preview pane is a really usefullittle feature to turn
working
in thisfile that i want to make some changes tothis but i want to make
those changesin a different file so i can say filesave as and what i'm
going to do is i'mgoing to call this my firstfile v2 for version2. click
on save you can now see thatthat title has changed in the title bari
can carry on adding information intothisfilei can say file save but
essentially if i
i now have two files so if i
openmyfirstfile.txtyou can see there is my original versionand of course
if i wanted just a blanknotepad file again i can go up to thefile
menuselect new and it's going to give me anew fileand it's worth noting
that with notepadeverything opens within one window so ifi wanted a new
file in a new windowi can say new window and i get a secondwindow and of
course to close these down
to close them down so i've reopened
thatsecond version of my notepad file justso i can highlight to you some
otheroptions that you have that are verywindows specificso we have our
menu bar running acrossthe top file edit format view and helpand as
you've seen when we click we geta drop down menu with various
differentoptions that we can utilize withinthis window so we've seen a
few of theseat the top here but we also have thingslike
particular
fileand we also have the option to exitnow the edit menu i'm not going
to gothrough all of these but one thing i dowant to point out is that
you'll seethat some of the options within here areslightly grayed outnow
when you come across a grayed outmenu option it means it's
notaccessible so it's not available for meto useand if you're wondering
why well if youlook at it this way
momentand the reason why i
can't do that isbecause i haven't got any texthighlightedso windows
doesn't know what i want tocopyand the same thing there would apply
tothe cut optionso let me highlight this first line oftext just by
clicking and draggingnow if i go to the edit menu you'll seethat both
cutand copy are available for me to select
if i select cut it's
going to remove iti can then jump down to the bottom of mydocument go to
editand say paste to paste that piece oftext innow it's also worth
noting that thesemenu options that you get in your windowwill very much
depend on which app youare inand i will say many options have changedso
muchover the years now if you've been usingmicrosoft applications for
quite a while
that about eight or nine years agowe went through a
huge change where allof the drop down menu systems werereplaced
withribbons now if you've never heard ofribbons don't worry we're going
to comeon to that in a whilebut prior to that ribbon
structureacrossapplications like word excel powerpointwe hadmenu drop
downs very much like you seehere
windows applications still
retain thosemenudrop downs where some of them haveadopted that
ribbonstructure now just to give you an ideawhat i mean when i'm talking
aboutribbons and we are going to get ontothis and cover thisin a lot
more detail a bit later on buti've just opened up excel to show you
anexampleof the new ribbon structure so you cansee here that we have our
file
home insert drawer so on and soforthbut when i click on them i don't
get adrop down menu like i do in notepadi get these ribbons that
runhorizontally across the screenwhich contain lots of different
iconswith all of the different commandsand this was a huge change i
remember iwas part of the roll out of this newsystem across different
companiesand it was very difficult trying to getpeople to switch from
drop down menus
or nine years down the line now sohopefully
everybody's kind of got usedto itand again if this is the first time
thatyou're seeing these ribbons we're goingto talk about them morein
much more detail a bit later on sothe main thing i'm really trying
tohighlight here is to just be aware thatyou have two options when
working withinwindows appsthe menu system drop-downs and also theribbons
module
we're going to be talking moreabout the start menu so please join mefor
thathello everyone and welcome back to thiscourse on windows 10.in this
module we're going to be delvinga little bit more intothe start menu
now we've already lookedat many different aspects of the startmenu but
we're going to start to getmore into some of the personalizationfeatures
that you haveso we're going to start out with an
i'm going to
show you how you cannavigate the start menuand then we're going to look
briefly atthe start menu in tablet modenow if you're used to using
windows 8 or8.1then this stop menu is going to look alittle bit
unfamiliar to youmicrosoft changed the way that youaccess your programs
in windows 10and it now has this kind of hybridsystem where we havemenu
items and also a tile-based system
of a compromise inwindows 8
and 8.1 it was all tilesand no menu system people didn't likethat so
much so now in windows 10 wehave kind of a compromise a hybridbetween
the twoas i've mentioned before the left handpart is the traditional
start menu likein windows 7and the one on the right is the tilebased
system andboth of these are very customizableso we can make the start
menu bigger by
we can drag it out to the left or backin
againdepending on how we want that to lookand what you'll seehere with
these tiles is that icurrently don't have mine organizedparticularly
well i've got kind of a biggap in here and they're just notorganized in
anylogical order now i can completelycustomizehow these tiles are placed
how they looki can change the grouping names at the
life at a
glance and explore i can addmy own onesi can add whatever tiles i find
mostuseful to this sectionand i can also rearrange the tiles nowif i'm
someone who particularly likesthistile based system you can
essentiallychange your windows 10 back to how itused to lookin something
like windowsso if i right click my mouse on thedesktop and go down to
from
this menuand i can switch on this option usestart fullscreen if i click
to turn that onand close this down now if i bring up mystart menuyou
can see i have the full screen andit's just thosetiles now if i want to
get back to justmy desktopif i click the windows logo again that'sgoing
to give me back my desktopnow i'm going to right click and jump
i'm
going to go to start and i don'treally like that option so i'm going
toturn it backoff now you can see here there are lotsof ways that i can
personalize my startmenuso for example you could jump intocolors just
hereand you could change the colors that youused on that start menuso if
i click on this drop down i have achoice between dark or light so if
iclick on dark
dramatic changenow i also have a light option in
thereas wellyou can have transparency effects turnedon or off so i have
mine onso if you look down at my taskbarcurrently it's slightly
transparentnow i could turn that off and make thatmore of a solidfill i
can choose my accent color soagain if i switch this to dark this isgoing
to show up a little bit morebut my accent color is the color of
appearing
underneath my openapplicationsso currently i have that set to this
seafoamcolor but you'll see if i select redthen that's going to change
the color ofthose little accentsso again entirely up to you which
colorsyou use so it's definitely worth jumpingintosettings and just
taking a look at someof the options that you have tocustomize or
personalize that start menu
colors that you have when it comes
tochanging your accent color andbackground color now as i said we
aregoing to go more into this when we coverpersonalizationin a later
module now when it comes tothestart menu and navigating around thestart
menuwe have that menu on the left and aswe've seen beforeif we click on
any of these letterdividers it's going to take us into
onm and
what you'll see is that i havethis little scroll barwhich kind of
doesn't appear until ihover over it but that's going to allowme to
scroll up and downthrough my menu items obviously ifyou're using a touch
device then youwould use your finger to scroll up anddownas opposed to
using the mousenow as we're talking about a touchdevice i just want to
tablet
modeso i'm going to go to my action centerand i'm going to turn
ontablet mode and this is what tabletmode looks like so i'm now going to
usemy finger as opposed to mymouse to navigate through some of
theseoptionsnow if i was to click these three linesin the top left hand
corneryou can see that i can switch betweenany tiles that i've got
pinned or i cango to
list of my appsand scroll i just use my
finger and dragupi can click on any of these folders withmy finger and i
can open my applicationsuch as notepad againin a very simple way and i
can close itback down againand it takes me back to that centralizedstart
menunow one thing you'll notice in tabletview is that it does make
everythingslightly bigger to accommodate for your
larger than the
pointer of a mouseso if we just take a look at a littlebit of tile
management in tablet modeif i press and hold on this first tilehere the
office tileyou can see i get a couple of littleoptions the bottom one
the three dotsallows me to accessmore options for this particular tile
soagain it really depends what i want todobut you'll see i also get the
optionjust above of
now currentlythis application is pinned to my
startmenu which is why i can see it here soif i tap thisit's going to
unpin it and essentiallyremove itso now when i'm in my pinned tiles
ican't see itnow if i want to re-pin that i can clickon my three linesin
the top left hand corner i can go toall appsi'm going to use my finger
to scroll
app and again if ipress and hold i get my option to
pinto start now if i go back to my pinnedtilesyou can see that my office
icon has nowbeen addedand if i want to move that back to itsoriginal
location i just press and holdand then i can just simply drag with
myfingerand drop tap anywhere else to deactivatethose optionsso very
very simple to work in tablet
now one other thing you might want
to doin here is turn off live tiles so wementioned live tiles earlierand
the live tiles are the ones that youcan see that are kind of moving
they'reshowingupdates so for example my news app inthat middle explore
groupis kind of scrolling different newsitems and you'll see that my
weather appnext to italso scrolls and changes occasionallyand this is
what we call live tiles now
is tap and hold on the weather apptap
on more options go to moreand say turn live tile offand you can see now
it's just showingthat it's not showing me constantupdates of the
weather so that's a veryquick run-throughof some more options that you
haverelated to the start menu when workingin desktop or intablet mode
that's it for this module iwill see youin the next one hello everyone
and
10. in this very quick module i justwant to show you the
difference betweenuser settings andcontrol panel now both of these
aremechanisms toadjust your settings so i'm going tostart out just
bytalking to you about the differencesbetween settings versus control
paneli'll show you a little bit how you cannavigate around the control
panel andthen we'll take a look at usersettings now traditionally
control
panel was where you went formost of your settings on your deviceso for
example if you wanted to add aprinter or set up your wifi networkits
control panel you would go tohowever in recent versions andparticularly
in windows 10a lot of those things that wereavailable in control panel
have now beenmoved across to settingsnow this is a little bit
confusingbecause there are some things that arewithin settings and some
things that
items there's anoverlap so you'll find them both
incontrol panel andin settings so all i really want to doin this module
is make you aware thatyou haveboth of them and how you can access themso
let's start out with control panelnow as i said if you're not good
atrememberingwhere things are and where to clicktyping in the search box
is always agood
when i'm looking for somethingon my pc so i'm
going to click down herein the search box and i'm going to typeincontrol
panelbest match at the top there controlpanel app click to openand this
is my control panel so you cansee here it says adjust your
computersettings then we have numerous differentgroups with various
differentclickable links underneath so if i wantto review my computer's
status i can
at the security and the maintenanceinformation if i
click back to go backi can look at my network status so i cansee what
wi-fi i'm connected toand i can come in here to set up a newconnection
or network if i need toi can jump into hardware and sound if iwant to do
somethinglike view the connected devices or adda printer i can
uninstall an applicationfrom here or a programi can change account type i
can dothings like access or make changes to
personalizationi can
change the clocks so i can changethe date the timeor number formats and
i can also adjustsome ease of access settings as wellnow in older
versions of windows thereused to be so much more in this controlpanel
but as i saida lot of it has now been moved across tosettingsin windows
10. so let's just compareboth of themi'm going to jump back down to
search at
settings i'm going to click to opennow i want to be
able to see both ofthese so what i'm going to do is usethat snapping in
windows 10and just drag settings over to the rightand then fill the rest
of the screenwith the control panel so now we havethis windows settings
screenand you'll probably see immediately thatthere is quite a lot of
overlapfor example we have personalization insettings and we also have
appearance andpersonalization
windows settingsand we have our
hardware and soundsection over hereso just to show you how different
itactually is if i wanted to adda printer if i click onview devices and
printers and then add aprinterit's going to take me to this kind ofold
style dialog boxnow in windows 10 if i want to add aprinter if i click
on devicesyou can see i get this menu system
one of them is
printers and scanners andi click on the plusto add a printer or a
scanner so you cansee howdifferent settings looks to controlpanel
settings is a lot moremodern in its look and feel now when itcomes to
working in control panel you dohavesome control over the way that
theseicons look so for example if i clickthis little more options drop
downi can choose the size of the icons that
whereas in settings i
don't have anysuch optionsbut personally my preference is to
usesettings wherever possible just becausei find it a little bit
moreuser-friendlya little bit simpler and easier tounderstandso the
point i'm trying to make here isif you're looking for a
particularsetting on your pcand you come into settings and you can'tfind
it
control paneland seeing if it's in there because as isaid
there aresome things still that are onlyavailable in control paneland
not in settings hopefully that helpsyouunderstand the difference between
thetwo in the next module we're going toexplore this idea of settings
even moreand i'm going to show you how you canmake somebasic changes
that's it for this module
hello everyone and welcome back to
thiscourse on windows 10. in this modulewe're going to explore some of
thebasic settings that you need to be awareofand there are a few that
you shouldprobably be checkingright away so i'm going to start out
bytalking you through some of the settingsthat you have fordate and time
we're going to look atyour language settingsregion settings mouse
settings
so let's kick this off by taking a lookat date and
timenow i'm going to jump straight back intomy settings so as we saw in
the previousmoduleif we click in our search box and typein settingswe
can select to open that up and i'mgoing to make that fullscreen so it's
easier to see and fromhere i'm going to jump straight intothis middle
optiontime and language now in here the top
set the time
automatically you candecideif you want to set the timeautomatically or
notso if you don't you can turn that toggleoffnow the way that your
system knows whichtime to set it to is that it accesses atime server so
in order for it to beable to do that accurately you need tomake sure you
are connected to theinternet if you want to use that optionnow by
default the time is set
but you can also elect to have your
timezone setautomatically as well so if i togglethison you can see
underneath it's picked upmy time zoneof utc plus zero hours which is
thecorrect time zone for dublin edinburghlisbonand london where i'm
located now youdon't have to have the systemset these automatically for
you so if iturn
time automaticallyit gives me this option where i
can setthe date and timemanually so if i click on change i cannow go
inand make my manual changes to that if iwant tonow i'm very happy with
my systemsetting my time automatically for me soi'm going to toggle that
switchon now another useful option that youhave in here is the ability
to addclocks for different
right hand corner underneath
thisrelated settings areayou'll see we have a link there addclocks for
different time zonesso i can select to show this clock whichis my
current location and i can enterdisplay name so i might want to
changethat tolondon which is where i'm located and ican also chooseto
show another clock and select adifferenttime zone so i might have lots
of
usso i might want to have another clockset to eastern timeus
and canada and i'm going to sayus for that one and click on applyand
okay so now when i clickon my time and date in the bottom righthand
corner down on that taskbaryou can see as i hover over it's tellingme
what the local time is what the timeis in londonand what the time is on
the us eastcoast
the top there i have londonand i also have the
us so that can bereally useful if you work acrossdifferent time zonesnow
if i scroll down you can see at thebottom here we also have the option
toadjust for daylight saving timeautomaticallynow in the uk we observe
daylightsavings soi like to have that option turned on butobviously you
can adjust that if youdon't observe daylight saving then you
if
we move down to the next option whichis regionjust come in here and make
sure that youhave the correct region selectedand also regional format
so how do youwant dates displayedso a good example is that in the ukwe
write the short format of the date ina different wayto the us so in the
u.sthe month is first followed by the dayand then the yearwhereas in the
uk it's the day then the
then the year now you'll notice that
ihave mine set toenglish united states and again if youlook down in my
taskbarat the format of my date you can seethat that is us formatso we
have month first then daythen year now i have mine set to thatbecause a
lot of the work i do is for usclients so i would rather myself
beslightly confusedthan all of my customers but i wouldjust come in here
and make sure that you
correct date format based on whereyou're
locatednow let's jump down into language andthis is where you can
specify whatlanguage is used for your display soagain i'm in the uk so i
have mine setto english united kingdombut if i wanted to change my
displaylanguagei would need to click on this link add awindows display
languagein the microsoft store and you can seeif i click that link it
takes me through
choose to install what they call a
localexperience pack so it says get windowsto speak your language by
installing alocal experience packand you can go through and you
canselect your language pack essentiallyso that windows displays in your
chosenlanguageand then right at the bottom there wehave preferred
languages and you can seei have twoset here english united states
andenglish united kingdom
depending onwho the client is that i'm
working withat the time and most of my clients arebased either in the
ukor in the us now you may not want tohave toyou may just be using your
laptop athome and if you speak english or frenchor german or whatever
language you speakyou'll want that to be your defaultlanguageso make
sure that you click add apreferred language go through
picked it
upalready and then finally at the bottomwe havespeech and here it says
choose theprimary language you speak manage voicesfor your device and
apps and set up yourmicrophoneso i'm recording on a microphone rightnow i
am speaking english so i want tomake sure that my setting in there
isset correctlyand if i'm someone who uses speechrecognition
is
set up correctly and i can do thatfrom here simply by clicking on that
getstartedbutton now if you're somebody whopossibly has accessibility
issues somaybe you don't see so wellyou can choose to get windows to
speakback to you essentially to kind of talkyou through what you're
doingand you can come in here and you canchoose a voice so we have
microsoftgeorge david susanso on and so forth so you can come in
that
you want windows to use you canchoose the voice speedand then you can
preview the voice aswell sothis area is definitely an area ofsettings
that i would come intoto make sure that everything is set upcorrectlynow
a couple of other things that i wantto highlight within windows
settingsthat i recommend youcheck before you really get going
withwindows
so i'm going to jump into devicesand you'll see in
the menu on the lefthand side we have an optionfor mouse now there's
only a few optionsin here and they are fairly basic so ifyou do use a
mouse you want to make surethat you select your primarybutton now i'm
right handed so myprimary buttonis my left click but if you
areleft-handed you might want to switchthat round if you have a
left-handedmouse you can also adjust the speed in
mouse wheel is
used to scroll so if youdo have a mouse that has a wheel on ityou can
use that wheel to scroll up anddown pagesand this is where you can
specifyexactly how far that will jump as youscrollso you can choose
multiple lines at atime or one screen at a timeand you can get even more
granular withthat and choose how many lines to scrolleach time just by
adjusting thisslider now you do have a few other mouse
but to
access them you'll need to jumpacross to this relatedsettings area and
you'll see here youhave two options adjustmouse and cursor size and
additionalmouse optionsnow what you'll notice is if we jumpinto
additional mouse options itactually takes youthrough to control panel
and this iswhat i mean by there is such a crossoversome things are
available withinsettings and other things not
mouse settings
available withinsettings if we want to do anything alittle bit more
advanced it's going totake us through to the control panelso in here and
i'm not going to gothrough all of these optionsbut you can really kind
of set up howyour mouse configuration isand how it works for you you can
even dothings like specify the type of pointersthat you're usingso
you'll see as i hover my mouse overthe screen i just have this little
arrow
but i can come in and i can customizesome of theseif i want
to i also have a pointeroptions section in therewith lots of different
settings i mightwant to look at i can customizehow my wheel operates
which is similarto what we havejust here and then i have somehardware
options as well so the mainpoint here isthat if you're looking for
additionaloptions always look over at this related
settings so
our additional mouse optionswent through to control panelbut if i click
on adjust mouse andcursor sizeyou'll see that that stays withinsettings
butthese options are located in the ease ofaccessarea so it's jump me
straight to thoseso if you do have vision problems or
anyaccessibilityissues you can come in here and dothings like change the
size of the
and also make the cursor easier to seewhen typingso
again really important for you tocome in here and check those
settingsnow the final couple of things i'm goingto bring to your
attention in hereis if we jump to touchpad again this isif you're usinga
laptop that has a touchpad you can sethow windows responds when you're
usingthat touchpadfor example you can use the touchpad andyou can double
tap it to
can make some adjustments tohow that responds from
this little tapsectiondown there you can also customize howyou want
toscroll and zoom so if you want to dragtwo fingers in order to scroll
so if ido this on my touchpadyou can see i'm just using two fingersto
scroll up and downon that touchpad i'm not using my mouseand a bit
further down you can reallykind of start to
on your touchpadand
again this is all very much personalpreferencei tend to not use my
touchpad as much imostly have a mouse connectedbut there are some
instances where i douse the touchpad predominantlyand if that applies to
you then you'regoing to want to come in here and checkthose settings
now finally if you areusing a tablet device and you havea pen then
you're probably going to wantto jump into
you can say which hand
youprefer to write with so for me that ismy right handand in here you
have lots of differentoptions that you can customizefor how that pen is
going to work whenyou're using it with your tablet deviceso again if
this applies to youdefinitely come in here go through thosesettings and
check to make sure they'reset up as you likeso that's it for this module
all ireally wanted to highlight there are
basic settings in
windows 10 that it'sreally important that you gointo before you really
start usingwindows 10 they're the basics that youneed to make sure are
set up correctlyso you can work efficiently that's itfor this module i
will see you in thenext onehello everyone and welcome back to thiscourse
on windows 10.in this module we're going to delve abit more intodisplay
settings now most aspects of
automatically by windows 10but
sometimes you may need to changesomethings so we're going to take a look
atyour display settingswe're going to discuss screenresolutionsi'm
going to show you how you can managemultiple displaysand i'm going to
show you how you canmake some text largerso let's start out by taking a
look atour display settings
display settings is toright click on
your desktop and right atthe bottom there you have an option fordisplay
settings so starting at the topthis is where we can cometo adjust the
brightness and the colorof our displayso if you find that your display
iseither a little bit too bright for youreyes or possibly a little bit
too darkyou can just move this slider up anddown to make it brighteror
darker you'll also notice that you
underneath now if i turn this
onwhat you'll see is it says that thisnight light is off until 8 59 pm
sothat's basically the time that it'sgoing to get a bitdarker outside
and if i have this nightlight setting turned onit makes my display
slightly warmerso it's not so harsh on my eyes whenit's dark outside and
i'm looking at abright screenso again definitely play around withthat
setting and see if that's something
settings you can see here
that we have ascale and layout sectionso this is where you can change
the sizeof text appsand other items now in general when itcomes to the
scale just heremine's set to 125 and you can see inbrackets it says
recommendednow i always tend to go with therecommended setting in
herebut just to show you what it looks likeif i was to click this drop
down andchange the scale to 100 percent
smaller so all of my
icons on my taskbarare now smallerand so is the text and i actually
findthat a little bit too small for my eyesso i like to keep it on the
recommendedsetting of 125again when it comes to displayresolution i
always go for therecommended setting for my deviceso my recommended is
1920 by 1080but you do have lots and lots of otheroptions in there so
again it really doesdepend on the device that you're using
my
display nowi like to have mine on landscape if iflip it to portraityou
can see that switches my entirescreen around now obviously that's
notgreat for me at the moment so i'm goingto revertback now i have seen
some situationswhere people havedesktop pcs where they can actually
turntheir monitorso it's in a portrait position so if youwork in that
way then changing the
need to do in hereand then finally at the
bottom we have asection for multipledisplays now i'm using a laptop here
ihaveone display one screen that i'm lookingathowever i have in the
past i know manypeoplework with two monitors so if i wanted toi could
plug a second monitor into mylaptop and havetwo displays now you can see
that when i
didn't detect another display because idon't
currently have a second monitorplugged inhowever if i did i'd be able to
see bothof those monitors listed under hereand i can choose how i want
to displayacross those monitorsso for example if i want what i'm
seeinghere extended acrossboth i can do that if i want toduplicate
across the monitor so if iwant what i'm seeing on this screen nowto be
exactly duplicated on the second
i can do that as well now if we
lookover on the right hand side you can seewe have a few other little
links justhereso this sleep better area this refers tothis night
lightsetting and you can see it says nightlight can help you get to
sleep bydisplaying warmer colorsat night now one thing we didn't
jumpinto was these night lightsettings so my night light isset
automatically to come on when it
but if i wanted to i could turn
thatnight light on now by clicking this turnon nowbutton and what you'll
see is that thescreen gets slightly warmer in colorwhich means if you
sleep in the sameroom as your laptop and you have yourlaptopopen it's a
bit of a less harsh lightand also it is a lot easier on your eyeswhen
the conditions outsideare dark now underneath here you'll seeyou have
different links which are going
just give you a little bit
moreinformation about setting up multiplemonitorsalso how you can adjust
the font sizechange your screen brightness and fixany screen flickering
as well now whenit comes to thesize of the text that you're seeing
onyour displayyou can make some adjustments to some ofthe text in
windows 10.it's worth noting that this applies todesktop applications
and not any of the
apps that you may have downloaded so inorder
to demo this i've opened upnotepad again and i just want you tolook at
that title bar and just make anote of the sizenow if i want to change
the size of thetext the easiest thing for me to dois jump down to my
search bar at thebottom and i'm going to saymake text biggerand you can
see at the top there it'stelling me make text size bigger is insystem
settings and it's actually in the
area now i'm going tominimize
this window down a little bitso we can still see anotepad underneath and
what i can do isi can drag this little sliderin order to make the text
size biggeri'm going to click on applyand you can see now that that
title barin notepad is a lot biggerif i adjust it again just to make
itvery dramaticand click on applyyou can see how much bigger it's making
text
underneath my desktop icons biggerand easier to seeas well but you'll
notice that itdoesn't make any of the taskbar icons oranything in that
taskbar biggerjust desktop items and just these windowmenu systems now
for me that's a littlebit too large so i'm going to take thatall the way
back downclick on apply and everything's now setback to normalso again a
number of different optionsin there related to
you in the way
you workdefinitely jump in there and go throughthose and change those
settingsaccordinglythat's it for this module i will see youin the next
onehi guys and welcome back to this courseon windows 10.we're down in
section four and in thismodule we're going to take a look at ourpower
options andpower saving settings so it's reallyimportant if you're using
it's
really essential that youunderstandthat you can extend the life of a
laptopbattery by using its powercarefully an example of that would
beswitching off or reducing the brightnessof your display so in this
module i'mgoing to go through with youthe options you have for power
savingwe're going to talk a bit about powerbuttonsi'm going to show you
power plans andalso how you can access your advanced
our options
for powersaving now as i said screen brightnesswill greatly affect the
use of powereven if your laptop is plugged in it'sstill going to use
electricityso one way to reduce power is to adjustthe brightness of
yourscreen now i'm going to jump down tosearchand i'm going to type in
the word powernow you can see here it's brought upbest matchpowerpoint
which is probably the most
i use all the time but i don't want
thatif i godown a little bit to settings this iswhat i'm looking for
power and sleepsettings and i'm going to maximize thatwindownow it's
worth noting that we're goingto get on to talking about somethingcalled a
powerplan you can essentially set up a powerplanand personalize or
customize the optionsfor each power setting
just hereare related
to any kind of power planthese are separatefrom that but if you don't
have a powerplanset up on your laptop or your pc and youjust want to
make some minor changes youcan come into hereso you can see here power
and sleep thefirst thing we're discussing isscreen so it says on battery
powerso when my laptop isn't plugged inessentially
can select
how many minutesso currently i have mine set to fourminutesand then i
have the option that when mylaptop is plugged init's going to turn
itself off after 10minutes so if i leave the room orgo to bed and i
forget to turn my laptopoffit's automatically going to turn itselfoff
after 10 minutes if i have itplugged inand again we have similar options
for
so if you remember that sleep optionmeans that your
pcdoesn't shut down completely so if youhave all of your applications
openit's not going to close them all downthe pc will just essentially go
to sleepand work in a reallylow power mode and all it means is thatif
you want to wake up your pc again youjust have to come back to your pc
pressthe space bar or wiggle your mousearoundlog back in and all of the
applications
in the background so here i have mysleep settings
again on battery powerpc goes to sleep after four minutes whenplugged
inafter 10 minutes so come in here andadjust these settings
accordinglyand finally at the bottom i have anoption here network
connection so itsays when my pc is asleep and on batterypower disconnect
from the networknow i don't like to do that i like tohave mine always
connected to my wi-fiso it's super quick for me to just get
but
again that's personal preference ifyou want to disconnect it from
thenetwork when it goes to sleep thenfeel free to change that setting
now ifwe look over on the right hand side youcan see we have a
relatedsettings option just here and we have alink to additional power
settings solet's jump into here and see what wehavenow you can see here
this is one ofthose options which jumps me to controlpanel so
available
insettings in windows 10 they have to beaccessed through control
paneland i have a few different options thati can change in hereso let's
start at the top choose whatthe power buttons doso when we say power
button we'retalking about basically the button youpress to turn your
pcor your laptop on or off now in herethis is where i can specify what
happenswhen i press my power button and a good
features of your
deviceand you can see here there's somesettings related to the power
button andalso to the sleepbutton now i have a power button but idon't
have a sleep buttonand you can see that i've chosen thisoption here that
when i press that powerbuttonif my laptop's on battery it goes tosleep
if it's plugged in it goes tosleepand also if i was to close the lid on
my
it also goes into sleep mode whether i'mon battery poweror
plugged in now it is worth notingthat you can change these so for
examplei might want to say that when i closethe lid of my laptopi want
it to completely shut down so icould select that if i wanted to or ihave
the options of hibernateor do nothing now an option in here thatwe
haven't really talked about too muchis hibernate and hibernate is
importantbecause
this one doesn't but it doesn't shutdown
eitherso essentially what happens is yourdevice stores its current
stateand if it's hibernated it will startmore quicklythan from cold so
if you use a laptopand you want to start it up very quicklyyou might
choose to hibernaterather than sleep so i'm actually goingto set this
tohibernate on both of these for when iclose the lid
let's move
down to this option herecreating apower plan you can essentially
createyour ownpower plans in windows 10.so i'm going to show you how you
can gothrough and just create a very simplepower planso you can see
here it says start withan existing plan and give it a namenow power
plans again are very muchbased on your deviceso some devices allow you
to create a
a power saver and a high performancepower plannow my
default in windows 10 is balancedyou can see here it says
balancedautomatically balance performance withenergy consumptionon
capable hardware so if i wanted tocreate a power plani could choose a
name for my plan so i'mgoing to call itdebs plan i'm going to click on
nextso this is basically where i can definemy power settings my options
it
says turn off display after fourminutes on battery and 10 minutes
whenplugged input the computer to sleep after fourminutes and 10
minutesnow i'm happy with that so i'm going toclick on createand you can
see here i now have twodifferent power plantsso the first one is
balance which is oneof the defaults nownotice that i don't have any
otheroptions for my power plan
and high performance they have
threepower plansavailable within windows 10. i only haveoneso that's the
only one i'm seeing downherei now have the plan that i've just
addedit's currently selectedand if i click on change plan settings ican
come in hereand modify these two if i want to and ican alsochange
advanced power settings now in
power plan you want to
customizethen choose settings that reflect howyou want your computer to
managepower so i have only two options up herei havebalanced which is
one of the defaultones and i have my plan which iscurrently the active
planand i can come into here and i can makefurther customizations to my
power planso for example if i expand power buttonsand lidi can carry on
expanding and i can
options just by clicking and
selectingsomething from the drop down menui can expand display i can
also expandbatteryand i can choose what notifications iwant to receiveas
well so lots of different options foryou to customizenow i will say you
don't have to useyour own power plan a lot of the timethe one that's
installed in my casebalanced will be sufficient but ifyou're really
conscious about how much
it is worth maybe thinking
aboutcustomizing your ownpower plan now the final option i wantto show
you in hereis again in settings and we're going tojump down tobattery
now it's worth noting that youcan also get to this pagevery simply by
clicking on the batteryiconin the taskbar so as i said i'm using alaptop
it's currently plugged inand i can see that i am fully charged a
but
if i click on battery and go tobattery settings it's going to jump meto
the samepage so this is quite useful if you wantto see which apps are
affecting yourbattery life you have a little link todo thatand i'm going
to change this time periodto oneweek and what it's going to show me
iswhich apps i've been using which areaffecting my batterylife most and
you can see here by far
is the application which is draining
mybattery more than anything elsethat i use so that can be quite
usefulinformation to seealso if you scroll down you can extendyour
battery life by limiting backgroundactivity andpush notifications when
your device islow on battery powernow i have this setting turned on so
itautomatically activates so it says turnbattery saver on
automaticallyif my battery falls below and then i've
20 percent
and also i've got it to lowerthe screen brightness while in
batterysaverso i basically have my system set up sothat it's
constantlyadjusting settings for mein order to get the most out of
mybatterylife so definitely jump into your powerand sleep settings and
your batterysettings and review thosethat's it for this module i will
see youin the next one
on windows 10.in this module we're going
to take alook at the ease of access optionsand really ease of access
just meansmaking your computereasier to use so we're going to startout
by taking a look at the ease ofaccess centeri'm going to show you some
options thatyou do have when it comes to making yourcomputer easier for
you to usei'm going to go through some helpfulrecommendations
couple
of examplesof ease of access settings we're goingto look at the
magnifierand also speech recognitionso first of all let's jump into the
easeof accesscenter now ease of access is one ofthose options that's
available in boththe control paneland also settings now within this
easeof accessoptions area you're going to find lotsof different things
that you can change
work in windows 10 if you have
certainaccessibility issues so we're going togo throughsome of these and
some of them we'vealready been through in previous modulesso if you
remember a couple of modulesago we were looking at how you can makeyour
text biggersimply by dragging this slider up ordownto increase or
decrease the text you seeon your screenand you can also make everything a
bit
brightnesssettings now let's look at some of theoptions that
we haven't looked atpreviouslynow if i jump across into cursor
andpointerthis is where i can control my pointersize sothe pointer size
by default isreasonably small so again if you haveany vision issuesyou
might find it quite difficult to seewhere that pointer is
size
simply by draggingthis slider up or down and you can alsochange your
pointercolor and you can also change it to acompletely different color
if you wantto so that reallystands out so if you can imagine if youdo
have troubleseeing that small white pointer youcould change it to
something like brightpink you could also change the pointersize and
that's going to make it a loteasier
which we haven't looked at
yet is themagnifierand the magnifier allows you to zoom inon parts of
your displayyou can run the magnifier in full screenin a separate window
or as a lens thatfollows your mouse pointeraround the screen so again
this would befor somebody who maybe hasvision problems who finds it hard
to seetextitems commands that are on the displayso if i just turn the
magnifier on
magnifies what i'm looking at on thissettings
pageand i can control that using this littlepanel so if it zoomed in too
much i canclick the minus to take that back downto 100or i can zoom in
again zoom in againand make it as big as i likenow what i can also do is
if i click theviews drop down currently i have it settofull screen now
if i was to click onlens
to 200 percent you can seenow this
little square magnifier willfollow my mouse pointer wherever iam so if i
want to see something inparticular so if i want to zoom in overherei
can just hover the magnifier over thissectionand it instantly magnifies
that text butkeeps everything else the same sizeso that's a really
really nice littleoption if you do haveissues like that and of course to
come
to close that magnifier down now thereare some shortcut
keys for thatmagnifier to make it super easy for youto toggle in and out
of that modeif you press the windows logo key plusthe plus to turn on
the magnifierand then the windows logo key plusescape to turn the
magnifier offso let's just try that out i'm going tohold down the
windows logo keyand i'm going to say plus and there wego i get my
magnifier backwindows logo key and escape and it turns
now the
next options in this menu reallyrelate to thecolor of items on your
screenso if you have issues with colorblindnessor maybe you confuse
certain colors thenthis is probably where you're going towant to comeand
check to make sure that everything'sset up correctly for youso you can
see here color filters makephotos and colorseasier to see by applying a
color filter
so if i was to select on to turn onthese color
filtersyou can see that i have gray scaleselectednow what i could do is
say inverted andthat's essentially going to reverse thecolors on my
screen so now i have ablack backgroundand white text which sometimes is a
loteasier for people to seebecause the contrast is higher and thenright
at the bottom we have somecolor schemes that are really there for
color
blindness so you can see it saysselect a color blindness filter to
makethe nine colors on the wheelmore distinct so we have red green
wherethe greenis weak we then have red green where thered is weakand
then blue yellow so lots ofoptions in there for people who
havedifficultyin seeing colors we also have in here ahigh contrast area
and you can see hereit says make text and apps easier to see
so
high contrast colors in general arecolors that are very opposite of
eachotherso that might be bright white text on ablackbackground or the
opposite of that awhite background and blacktext so if i turn on high
contrastcolorsyou can see here it makes all of thattextvery different
from the background andof course as always you have different
on
which you prefer and you can go alittle bit further and customize how
youwant each element in that theme toappear so currentlyi have text set
to yellow but if i clicki'm going to get my color pane come upand maybe i
want that to be a brightpinkand then when i click on apply at thebottom
i can save it as a new theme andthenutilize that in windows now i'm
notgoing to do that i'm just going to click
out of there and i'm
going to turn offhigh contrastmoving down this list we have narratorso
narrator is a screen reader so againthat describes what's on the screen
soyou can use the information to navigateon your deviceand it can be
controlled by keyboardtouch andmouse so again if you have some kind
ofvision problemthen maybe you want to turn on narratorso you can gain a
greater understanding
actually on the screen and you can seejust
below here you have variousdifferent options that you can customizeif
narrator is something that you wantto useincluding the narrator voice so
you canselect the accent you can select thelanguageand you have all of
these differentsample voices that you can use as yournarratorand if you
want to you can change thevoice speed so if it's a bit slow you
and
you can also change the pitch of thevoice and also the voicevolume so
moving down our list we're nowmoving on tooptions which are specifically
forpeople who have troublehearing so if we click on audio again wecan
do things likechange our device volume now rememberyou don't have to
come into settings tochange the volume on your deviceyou can do that
directly from thetaskbar down here
a microphone at the moment and
i canadjustmy volume and one nice little optiondown hereis how alerts
and notifications arehandledif you are hearing impaired so currentlyi
have it set to no visual alert but ifi wanted toin order to be notified
that i have anotificationi can choose one of these other optionsso i can
choose to flash the title bar
i can flash the whole active
window ican flash the entirescreen other options that you have isthe
ability to turn onclosed captioning so you can see here itsays make your
device easier to usewithout soundby displaying audio as textand you can
see there a preview of whatyour captions are going to look likeand
every element of this caption iscustomizable and you can see
underneathyou can
transparency the stylethe size and even change
the captionbackground so if you do have vision orhearing problemsthe
ease of access area is definitelysomething you should be comingagain to
set things up that are going tomake your lifeeasy now finally at the
bottom we havesomeinteraction options so let's click onspeechnow most of
these options would be for
ability when it comes toreach or
strength so instead of typingmaybe you possibly have something wrongwith
your wrist or your fingersyou can choose to talk instead of typeusing
dictation and you can see herethere is a keyboard shortcut to turnthat
onit's windows logo key plus h to startdictationand of course you can
also usemicrosoft's inbuiltartificial intelligence cortana to get
so
instead of having to jump onto googletype your question inyou could
utilize cortana to do that foryouthrough your voice you can also
choosetodictate text and control your deviceusingonly your voice and
again that's usingspeech recognitionso maybe you want to open word and
starttyping a documentif you turn on speech recognition you
opposed
to clicking with your mouseif we jump down to keyboard this is
thesection which will help you make iteasier totype and also use your
keyboardshortcutsso the first option there is use yourdevice without a
physical keyboardso if i turn that on you can see that iget essentially
this littlefloating keyboard and if i'm on a touchdevice then i can tap
on the screen inorder to use this keyboard or i can use
make it
easier for you todo keyboard shortcuts particularly ifyou have some kind
of issue with yourwrists or your fingersand you find it quite difficult
to presscontroland another key and another key all atthe same timeyou
can use something called sticky keyswhich allows you to press one key at
atime for keyboard shortcutsso if i was doing a keyboard shortcut
ofwindows key
sticky keys turned on it just means thati can
pressthe windows key and then the d in orderto execute that keyboard
shortcut idon't have to strain myself trying to dothem both at the same
timeso sticky keys is another really usefullittle feature we also have
the optionto play a sound when we're using togglekeys so for example if
we press capslock or num lock or scroll lockwe can choose to play a
sound to let usknow that we've got that turned on
that you might
want to customize so oneof them is the print screenshortcut now print
screen is a key onyour keyboard that you can use toessentially take a
screenshot ofwhatever is on your screen at thatparticular timenow i'm
going to turn this setting onbecause when i press the print
screenbuttoni want it to open my screen snippingutilityand this is a
really useful little
modules now the final two options wehave
down here aremouse so i could choose to control mymouse with a keypadso
again if i have wrist issues thatmakes it difficult for me to use
mymousei could turn on mouse keys to use thenumeric keypadto move the
mouse pointer around insteadand you have various different
optionsrelated to thatunderneath and finally we have eye
so eye
control lets you use eye trackingtechnology to control the mousetype
using an on-screen keyboard andcommunicate with people using textto
speech now in order for this to workyou need to havean eye tracking
device plugged in andinstalled on your laptopbut if you do have that
then this iswhere you can cometo customize those settings so those
areall of the options that you have withinease of access so if you do
have any
jumpingin here and setting things up to suityou now one
final thing i want to showyouis we're going to jump into controlpanel
because as i said at the startthere are also ease of access optionsfrom
within control panel so you can seehere i'm going to click on ease
ofaccessand most of these are very similar tothe settings that we've
just gonethrough
is a little wizardthat will essentially tell
windows 10which settings you needturned on for the particular issues
thatyou haveso if i was to click let windows suggestsettingsyou can see
here it's going to take methrough this little wizard and i need
toanswerfive questions so here it says selectall statements that apply
to youimages and text on tv are difficult to
lighting conditions
make it difficult tosee images on my screeni am blind i have another
type of visionimpairmentso you would go through and you wouldselect the
conditions that apply to youclick next to take you on to the
nextquestionso essentially you can work your waythrough this wizard then
at the end ofit windows is going toturn on and turn off the settings
thatyou
it quite right you could jump in thereand make any
further minor adjustmentsbut i wanted to show you that becausethat does
take quite a lot of the stressout of all of those options in ease
ofaccessso that is it for this module i will seeyou in the next onehi
guys and welcome back to this courseon windows 10.we've made it all the
way down tosection 5 where we're going to move onto
10so this is
really the fun part where weget to do things like change ourbackground
picturechange the colors personalize the startbutton and look atthemes
so let's start out withpersonalizingthe lock screen so the first thing
i'mgoing to do hereis just remind you of what my lockscreen looks likeso
i'm going to click on the windows
picture is i'm going to right
clickand i'm going to say lockso you can see on my lock screen i havea
background picturei have a couple of links listed on hereso in the top
left hand corner i can getto my favorite sites from the taskbarwith a
quickclick i have a little like what you seelink in the top right hand
cornerso this is referring to that backgroundpicture which hasbeen
automatically generated for me by
picture that i've setit's
automatic and by clicking that linkin the top right hand corner to say
thati like what i seemeans that windows 10 is going to carryon
essentiallysending me more photos that are similarfor use on my lock
screen you can see inthe bottom left hand corner i have thetimeand the
current date and underneath it'sshowing me that i havetwo new emails
ready and waiting then
i'm connected to wi-fiand i can also see
if my battery ischarged or not so that is what icurrently haveon my lock
screen so let's take a lookat the options that we have forpersonalizing
that lock screeni'm going to right click on the desktopand i'm going to
jump down topersonalizeand if we look over in our menu on theleft hand
side you can see we havelock screen so currently the background
is
windows spotlight so basically thisis apicture that's generated by
windows foruse on my lock screenhowever i have a couple of other
optionsin here i can go topicture and i can then choose thepicture that i
want to use on mybackgroundso there are a few different ones thatare
available frommicrosoft and these are always quitenice pictures that you
might want to
your own photosaved off locally then you can click
onbrowse and you can browse for whicheverpicture you want to use as
your desktopbackgroundwe also have a slideshow option in hereas wellso
if you select this option it meansit's going to cycle throughthe default
picture folder and it willessentiallymake a slideshow so if you want to
usethis option and you want to use your own
you can select which
albums you want touse for your slideshowso you'll either have to move
thepictures that you want to use into oneof these default foldersor you
can choose to add a folder so ifyou haveall of your nice pictures stored
off ina different folderyou can choose that folder and it willuse all
of the picturesin there in the slideshow andalternatively if i wanted to
just go
one picture i can browseand let's go for this one of the
hot airballoonsclick choose picture and there we goso a couple of
different ways there asto how you set that picture in thebackground of
your lock screennow one thing you will have noticed onmy lock screen is
that it was displayingthe dateand the time now you can see here itsays
choose one app to showdetailed status on the lock screen
now i'm
actually going to change thatbecause i want to see the weatheron my lock
screen so i'm going to clickand i'm going to chooseweather and what i'm
going to do is i'mgoing to havemy calendar so the date and time
showingas a quick status so currently i havemy mail notification showing
i have mycalendar which is fineand i also have my skype status as
welland if i want to i can click thesepluses and i can add
so
maybe i want to add something likethe microsoftstore now it's worth
noting with thesethat they won't showall the time so for example even
thoughi've got skype selected here as my quickstatusbecause i don't have
skype running and idon't really use skype to be honestif there's
nothing to show it's notgoing to show on the lock screennow it's also
worth noting that you canhave cortana
there's a little link here
cortanalock screen settings and you can seethere is a section here
specifically forlock screen so if you want to be able touse cortanaeven
when your device is locked makesure that you have thisturned on so now
we've set thosesettingsi'm going to close this down and i'mgoing to lock
my pc again so you can seethe changes that i've made in actionso i'm
going to click on the start menu
i'm going to say lockso now
we've taken a look at customizingthat lock screen let's take a look
atour desktop backgroundso currently i'm just using one of thesestandard
images that's availablein windows 10 but if i right click mymouse and
go down topersonalize this is where i can changethatso again i have the
options of picturesolid color orslideshow now in this case i'm going to
for
a picture and once again i have achoice of those standard
imagesavailable from microsoft or i can chooseto use one of myown photos
so i'm going to browseand this time i'm going to use thisimage justhere
and click on choose picturenow i'm going to minimize this windowdown a
little bit so you can see thatpicture in the backgroundnow currently
where it says choose a fiti've set it to fill
have some other
options in herei could say fit so essentially now ihavetwo black lines
down the side of mypicturenow the difference between fit and fillis that
when i choose fill itessentially zooms into that picturein order to be
able to fill the entirespace without distorting that picturebut what i'm
seeing here is less of thepicture than if i choose one of theother
options
don't want it to zoom inif you do fit then you're going
to seethat whole picturebut you might have some spare space downthe
sidenow the other options you have arestretchwhich will distort it a
little bit andjust stretch it out to fill thatavailable space as opposed
to zooming inyou have tile which is going to tilethat picture now this
is a pretty largepicture so
because the picture is so largebut if
you were using a smaller image itwould appearin tiles running across
your desktopbackgroundwe have center so again that's going tozoom it in
and put it rightin the center which actually looks quitenice on this
imageand then finally we have span whichagainfits your picture in a
slightlydifferent way so it all depends how you
now i quite liked
the center optionso i'm going to choose that one now ifyou are using a
solid fill as thebackground color you can choose from thepaletteand you
can choose any of these colorsnow when it comes to personalizing someof
the other elements of your desktopif we jump down to start this is
whereyou can personalize your start buttonnow mine's kind of set to the
defaultsbut you can essentially choose whichfolders
rememberpreviously
we came in here and wetoggled this topsetting on which made my start
menu lookmuch more like an older version ofwindows where you only see
the tiles asopposed to the tiles and the menui have show app list and
start menuturned onso our app list is this list runningdown herebut
again if you wanted to you couldtoggle that off and then when you go in
mine
on so let's switch that back oni can show recently added apps so againi
quite like this at the top so i cansee the last applications that i
addedyou can show most used apps as well solet's turn that onand you can
do things like use the startfull screenif you wanted to so again it's
alwaysworth jumping into here and customizingthese optionsand then right
at the bottom we canchoose which folders we want to appear
we're
talking about when we click onstart you can see down here i
havedocumentspictures settings and powerand this is where i would come
tocustomize what's displayed on thereso for example if i was to turn on
musicand click the start button you'll nowsee that musicappears just
there i could turn on fileexplorerand now i have a quick link to my
fileexplorer so a nice quick and easy way to
those icons now the
final thing i'mgoing to talk about in this moduleis this themes area and
you can come inhere and you can choose anoverall theme for windows 10
so you cansee here that because i've made somechanges so for example
i've just changedmy desktop background pictureto this file just here
i've changed mybackground color to sagemy sounds are just the windows
defaultand my mouse cursor is windowsaero so this is essentially my
and
i couldsave this theme as deb'stheme and click on saveif i scroll down
you can see thatthere's lots of other different themesthat i could
chooseand i could even jump across into themicrosoft store and
downloadother themes so for example if we clickon synchronize themeyou
can see here that's going to changemy background to one of the
windowsdefault backgrounds
mytiles are going to be by default in
thatsea foam colorand then my sounds are windows defaultmy mouse cursor
is windows defaultand if you wanted to change any of theseyou can just
click on the optiongo in and change your color settings nowi'm not going
to delve too much intothat they're fairly straightforward i'mgoing to
leave you to have a play aroundset a default theme if you want to nowthe
final thing i'm going to do is i'm
we go to personalizethemes
i'm going to use my themeand there we go that's it for thismodule i will
see you in the next onehello everyone and welcome back to thiscourse on
windows 10.we're down to the last module in thissection section5 we're
going to talk a little bit moreabout managingtiles and applications now
we've spokenquite a lot alreadyabout this start menu area and i really
this
part of the course out just bygoing through some of the options
wehaven't looked at yetwhen it comes to organizing and managingyour
tilesbecause really this little area here isyour central areait's where
you go to access yourapplications your appsand you'll see in a moment
that you caneven come here to access things likeweb pages and folders as
well nowcurrently looking at this i haven't
it pretty much looks
the way it lookedwhen i installed windows 10.so i have some default
tiles that havebeen placed in thereand one thing that you will notice
isdepending onthe device that you're using you mayfind that the
manufacturer of thatdevicehas placed some of their products orsome of
theirweb pages in the start menu for youfor example i'm using an hp
laptop and
hp jump starts that isn't something iinstalledit
literally came with my copy ofwindows 10on this hp laptop so bear in
minddepending on the kind of devicethat you use and where it's been
shippedfrom you might have slightly differenttiles to meso the first
thing we're going to talkabout in this module is managing yourtilesi'm
then going to talk to you about
and then finally managing your
appsnow we're going to be working a lot withthese tiles and we're going
to start outby looking at how we can manage them abit betternow one
thing to be careful of here whenyou're doing things like thisis that
remember if you click on a tileit's going to open that applicationso
just be a little bit careful as we'reworking through so you don't
keepopening things that you don't need tonow i'm going to take this tile
here
microsoft'sinternet browser you may have usedinternet
explorer in the past this isbasically their latest versionnow if i right
click on that tile you'llsee that i have lots and lots ofdifferent
optionsi could choose to unpin this from thestart areanow if i do that
it's going to remove itas a tilenow i actually like having that on
mystart menu so to add that back
it in the list hereright click
and say pin to startwhat you'll also notice is that if iclick on my
desktop backgroundbecause i have microsoft edge as ashortcut on my
desktop if i right clicki also have the pin to start option inthereand
there it is back again now it's beenre-addedas the last tile in this
list so i'mgoing to move this back to its originallocation
itso
very simple to move your tilesaround what you'll also notice is if
youright click on a tileyou'll have resize options now theresize options
that you see in hereare different depending on the tile thatyou're
right clicked onso you can see for this particular tilethe only options i
have are medium whichis currently setor small and you can see that that
willreduce the size of that particular tile
resize that back to
medianhowever if i click on something likemaleup here and right click if
i go toresize i have smallmedium wide and largeif we select wide you
can see it makesa wide tile or if i was to go to largei get a much
larger tile which takes upquite a lot of space on that start menubut
that can sometimes be quite usefulparticularly for somethinglike your
mail app because it's going to
you gotin the live preview there
so as you canseethis tile is what we call a live tileit's showing me the
contents of my emailandas that refreshes if i get any newemails come
through this tile is goingtoupdate now if you like lifetimes
that'sabsolutely fine but if you want to turnthat off again if you
right-clickand go to more you can say turn live
and instead of
actually seeing thecontents of my mail account i now justsee the
mailicon now i'm going to make thata medium tile again other things
thatyou have in hereso if i right click on let's say theweather app and
go to morei can choose to pin this to my taskbarso if i find that i'm
always using thatweather app if i select pin to taskbaryou can now see
it down there in mytaskbar ready to access
taskbar i can say
unpinto remove that now some other optionsthat you have when you right
click andagain let's use this weather appif i go down to more i can jump
straightto that appsettings now this is an app and so thesettings i can
change are fairly minimalbut it is just a nice quick way of beingable
to go in and adjust some of thosesettings for that particularapp or tile
if we right click one moretime and go to more
now you'll only
see rate and review inthis menuif you're right-clicked on an app sothat
is a very specific feature that'sonly for apps you won't find that
onsomething likeedge which is a microsoft app if we goto moreyou'll see
that we don't have rate orreviewnow i want to really organize and tidyup
my tiles so the first thing i'm goingto do is i'm going to go through
and i'm
apps that i don't really use all thatmuchso i don't
really tend to play gamesduring the day i'm going to right clickand i'm
going to say unpin from startin fact i'm going to remove this wholeplay
tilei'm going to say unpin folder from startnow solitaire i do play
thatoccasionally so i'm just going to movethat over herenetflix i like
to watch on my laptopoccasionally so that can stay
i'm going to
right clickand i'm going to say unpin from startnow this is probably an
appropriate timeto mentionthat unpinning from start is verydifferent to
uninstallinguninstalling will remove that particularapp that you're
clicked onfrom your pc entirely so it's not goingto be thereif you want
to use it again you're goingto have to reinstall that back onto yourpc
your
start menu i'm also going to unpinhpjump starts and also mcafeeso very
quickly i've streamlined whati'm seeing on my tilesnow here you can see a
tile thatcontains lots of my applications andthese are probably the
applications iuse most oftennow they're all in one tile because thisis
essentially a tilefolder so if i click on it it's going toseparate out
see
just above it now saysname folder so i'm going to
saymicrosoftproductivity appsand click away now i don't tend to useskype
so i'm going to right clickand i'm going to unpin that from startbut
the rest of them i doi also use microsoft to-do list so thatcan very
comfortably go underneath thatgroupof productivity apps now this top
grouphere
that titleif i wanted to change that i could justclick
on it and i could rename thatgroup as something else but i don't
mindlife at a glanceso i'm just going to do some rearranginghere i'm
going to move weatherand i'm going to change this exploregroup to
sayentertainmenti'm going to put netflix up there i'malso going to put
solitaire thereand i'm going to put the microsoft store
to name
this groupuh store like soand what i might want to do here isbecause
there's just one tile i canright clicksay resize and i'm going to say
widejust to move that acrossnow you'll see here i also have a tilewith
an up arrow on it and if i click itit's going to minimize all of
thoseproductivity apps down into that folderclick again to pull those
out nowremember you can
this start menu so i've just
recentlyinstalled the twitter app so if i rightclickand say pin to start
it's going to giveme my twitter app and i'm going to dragthat up tolife
at a glance like so now it's alsoworth remembering that it's not
justapps and desktop programs that you canadd tothis tiled area of the
start menu youcan alsoadd things like folders so for example
add
this exercise files folder tomy start menu as a tile i can rightclick on
the exercise files folderand i can say pin to startso now if we go back
you can see thereis myexercise files folder and i want to dragthat down
hereand create another folder group wherei say work filesi can then go
back and maybe do the samewith the course files folderpin to start
underneath
work filesas well so again when i expand that thatis whatmy tiles are
now starting to look likeso as you can see it is reasonablysimple to
customize the tiles thatyou're seeing therecreate groups and move your
tiles aroundso a little exercise for you which isn'ta real exercise but
definitely somethingyou should have a go withis just customizing that
whole area onyour pc
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