Beginning Windows 10: Do More with Your PC

Beginning Windows 10: Do More with Your PC

Mike Halsey

Language: English

Pages: 613

ISBN: 1484210867

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Beginning Windows 10 takes you through the new features of this amazing new operating system, revealing some of its surprising capabilities, and helping you customize it to suit you. Whether you are new to Windows, or you want to get up to speed with the latest features and changes, this book has everything you need to get started.

Author Mike Halsey shows you how to create an environment for school, work, and play that puts the important things at your fingertips, while combining them in ways you never thought possible. Learn how to carry your personalized Windows experience with you as part of your Microsoft account instead of having it tied to one device, while also keeping everything safe, secure and backed up, so you can enjoy peace of mind with your new PC.

With the right start, your PC can become a tool that works for you, not against you, and leaves more of your time and energy free for the things that matter to you. Beginning Windows 10 shows you how.

What You'll Learn
  • About the ins and outs of the Wi

ndows 10 interface and its new features

  • How to personalize your Windows experience to give trouble-free performance
  • How to manage your Microsoft account across different devices and services in the home, at work, and on the move 
  • How to maximize your productivity with Windows 10
  • How to secure and configure Windows 10 to guarantee a safe and secure experience
  • How to use, hack and manipulate Windows to enable advanced customization
  • Who This Book Is For
    Beginning Windows 10 is for people new to Windows or who want to get up to speed with the latest version. This book also can help people who already know how to perform routine tasks learn how to get more out of Windows, their computer and their time. Whether you want to get up and running with Windows 10, or want to go to the next level and learn useful ways to minimize problems, maximize performance, and optimize your overall Windows experience, this book is for you. 

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    Display useful information about messages, emails, and events, as well as highlight Windows 10 features that you may not have used. You can unlock your PC by clicking anywhere on it with your mouse or pressing any key on your keyboard. Tip On a desktop PC or laptop, you can quickly open the logon screen without having to swipe upward with your mouse. Just press any key on your keyboard—and the logon screen opens. When you open the lock screen, you’re presented with the sign-in screen. If you.

    Windows 10, that user is given full permission to read, write, and modify the files in her user folders (Documents, Music, and so forth). Figure 12-42.Setting advanced file security in File Explorer At times, you might find that you have permissions set on files and folders from another user or another version of Windows. This is especially true if you have upgraded your system from an earlier version of Windows or if you store your files and folders on a separate partition or hard disk for.

    10 is easier than it’s ever been, and the redesigned Start menu offers interesting and innovative ways to organize and arrange your apps. Live tiles can be incredibly useful, enabling you to see information as it arrives from your email, calendar, finances, news, and more. When it comes to using apps, there might be differences between small Windows 10 tablets and larger screens, and you might wonder why the Office Mobile apps are available on one of your devices but not others, but the.

    Browser or Tor, www.torproject.org , may be required for complete anonymity.) Generally speaking, and especially for present shopping, InPrivate Mode is a great way to hide what you’ve been doing from the people who use your PC and user account. Staying Safe Online Staying safe online is a challenge these days. Criminals are everywhere, ready to infect our computers with malware or to steal our credit card information or identities. So when we increasingly spend our time on online social.

    Storage administration interface is also gone. In Windows 10, if you want to change a configuration option, you have to know the IP address of the device, which you can get through your router or through the Devices and Printers page. Note The default IP address of a router is normally 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1. You can type this into your web browser address bar to gain access. Why You Might Not See Network Storage on Your Computer Sometimes network resources fail to appear. This is usually.

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