Thursday, 5 November 2015

THINGS TO DO AFTER INSTALLING WINDOWS 10


You have upgraded your computer to Microsoft’s newest operating system Windows 10 and we’re sure that you are likely eager to try out to see what is new in it.
The following points explain what you can do after upgrading your computer to Windows 10. Let’s check out now.

1. Personalize the appearance if Windows 10

With Microsoft’s newest operating system Windows 10, you can customize most aspects of its appearance. To do this, you firstly right-click the mouse and choose Personalize from the menu. Then a window appears with options for the Background, Colors, Lock screen, Themes and the Start menu. Now you can get Windows 10 to look the way you want.

2. Turn on System Protection in Windows 10

In Windows 10, System Protection, which was formerly System Restore, is turned off by default. However, you can turn it on. To do it, firstly, you have to open an Explorer window, right-click This PC and select Properties. After the window opens, you choose System Protection and then choose your C: drive in the dialog box. Next, you click the Configure button and choose the Turn on system protection option.
 


3. Customize the Windows 10 Start menu

The Start menu is back in Windows 10 and you customize it so that you can easily manage how information will displayed. You can resize the Start menu or group your live tiles. You can add, rearrange, and resize live tiles, too.

4. Turn on Energy Saver mode in Windows 10

You can turn on Energy Saver mode to improve your Windows 10 laptop’s battery life.To do it, you get into the Power Options window and select one of the power plan. Then you click on Change plan settings link of that particular plan. Next, you select the Change advanced power settings link, click on Energy Saver Settings option and choose Energy Saver on user away.

Friday, 30 October 2015

WINDOWS 10 SLEEK KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

Windows 10 is officially here and with it comes very many new features.

One of my personal favorites is the new virtual desktops. Using this feature, windows users can now add as many virtual desktops as possible thereby increasing their productivity. 


Keyboard shortcuts that help the user with these new feature are as listed below:
  • Snapping window: WIN + LEFT or RIGHT (can be used with UP or DOWN to get into quadrants)
  • Switch to recent window: ALT + TAB (unchanged) – Hold shows new Task view window view, let go and switches to app.
  • Task view: WIN + TAB – New Task view opens up and stays open.
  • Create new virtual desktop: WIN + CTRL + D
  • Close current virtual desktop: WIN + CTRL + F4
  • Switch virtual desktop: WIN + CTRL + LEFT or RIGHT