Essential Windows 10 October 2018 Edition

The Illustrated Guide to Using Windows

Kevin Wilson

• Publisher: Elluminet Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781911174769
• Topic: Ciencia de la computación
• Subtopic: Sistemas operativos

The twenty-first century offers more technology than we have ever seen before, but with new updates coming out all the time, it's hard to keep up.

Essential Windows 10: October 2018 Edition is here to help. Along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, illustrations, photographs, and video resources, this guide offers specifics in...

Setting up your computer, downloading and upgrading to Windows 10 October 2018 Update

A look at the new features introduced in the October Update

Navigating around Windows 10 using file explorer, task view and the start menu

Using the timeline and near share features

Using the desktop, running applications and basic file management

Using tablets, touch screen gestures, keyboards, pens and Windows Ink

Getting to know Cortana virtual assistant

Browsing the web with Microsoft Edge including a look at Chrome & Firefox

Using OneDrive & Files on Demand

Getting started with Continuum, linking your Phone, and using Windows Hello

Backing up your important data with File History

Downloading & watching videos, movies and watching DVDs

Downloading & listening to music

Storing, manipulating, sharing photos, recording video

Adding 3D models & Effects with Story Remix feature in Photos App

Staying in touch friends, family and colleagues using Mail, Calendar, Skype & the People App

Using Paint 3D to create 3D pictures that you can share via social media

A look at mixed reality using models from Paint 3D

Using Windows Security, as well as new exploit and folder protection features designed to combat ransomware

Maintaining Windows 10, scanning drives for errors, basic recovery procedures and more...

Unlike other books and manuals that assume a computing background not possessed by beginners, Essential Windows 10: October 2018 Edition tackles the fundamentals of the Windows 10, so that everyone from students, to senior citizens, to home users pressed for time, can understand.

So, if you're looking for a Windows manual, a visual book, simplified tutorial, dummies guide, or reference, Essential Windows 10: October 2018 Edition will help you maximize the potential of Windows 10 to increase your productivity, understanding, and help you take advantage of the digital revolution.

Navigating Windows 10

In this chapter we will take a look at the features of Windows 10, how to get the most out of them and how to use these features to get your work done.

We’ll start with some navigational features that allow you to start apps and interact with Windows.

Lets begin by looking at the start menu.

Start Menu

The start menu, in Spring Creator’s Update, has had a few minor enhancements.

Listed down the far left hand side of your menu you’ll see five little icons. From top to bottom, these icons allow you to change your account password or log out, view all files & pictures using file explorer, system settings, and shut down.

Also down the left is a list of your most frequently used applications. Underneath this list is an alphabetical list of all apps installed on your system.

On the right hand side of the menu, you’ll see coloured tiles representing apps. This is the tile area and these tiles are sometimes called live tiles. Live tiles graphically represent apps and can also display basic notifications such as latest messages, or emails from your mail app, information such as weather, latest news headlines and so on, even when the app isn’t running. To run the app you just click on the tile.

The start menu can be displayed as a menu on the bottom left hand side of the screen. This is better suited to point and click users, and is called desktop mode. The start menu can also fill the whole screen, putting more emphasis on the application tiles on the right hand side. This is called tablet mode and is useful for touch screen users using tablets and smartphones.

Tile Folders

Windows 10 allows you to group tiles into folders. This can be useful if you have a lot of apps installed on your device. You can start to group your tiles into logical folders; meaning you can group all your communication apps such as facebook, browser, or email, into one folder; all your office apps into another folder and so on.

In this example, I am going to drag all my communication apps into one folder - email, edge, facebook and twitter apps. So choose one of the apps to be the folder: edge browser. Then drag the other apps: email, facebook and twitter to this app, as illustrated below.

Now all these apps will be grouped into a folder, shown below left. Clicking on the folder will open up your app t...

Table of contents

• Essential Windows 10 Oct 2018 Ed
• About the Author
• Table of Contents
• Windows 10
• Setting up Windows 10
• Navigating Windows 10
• Windows 10 Tablets
• Internet, Email & Communication
• Multimedia
• 3D & Augmented Reality
• Windows Ink
• Windows 10 Apps
• Maintaining your Computer