Windows 10 At Work For Dummies
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The fast and easy way to get up and running with Windows 10 at work
If you want to spend less time figuring out Windows and more time getting things accomplished, you've come to the right place. Covering Windows 10 and packed with time-saving tips to help you get the most out of the software, Windows 10 At Work For Dummies offers everything you need to get back precious hours of your work day and make Windows work for you, rather than against you.
This full-color, all-encompassing guide breaks down the most common Windows tasks into easily digestible parts, providing you with illustrated, step-by-step instructions on everything you'll encounter in Windows 10. From setting up your desktop with your favorite apps to finding the files and applications you need—and everything in between—this hands-on, friendly guide takes the headache out of working with Windows.
- Provides over 300 tasks broken into core steps
- Provides easy-to-follow answers to all of your Windows questions
- Illustrates the new features of Windows 10
- If you're a time-pressed professional looking to find answers to all of your Windows-related questions, this is the one-stop resource you'll turn to again and again.
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Ciprian Adrian Rusen is a Microsoft MVP and Windows expert. His 7tutorials.com blog has more than 1.3 million monthly readers who look to him for insight into technology in general and Windows in particular.
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Windows 10 comes jam-packed with features. Here are shortcuts and tips for using the keyboard, mouse, and Ribbon to get fast access to the most commonly used commands. You'll be commanding Windows 10 in no time!5 big changes in Windows 10Windows 10 brings many changes to the Windows world. Basically, it takes the best parts of Windows 7 and Windows 8.
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Windows 10 brings many changes to the Windows world. Basically, it takes the best parts of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 and combines them into one operating system. And there are new features as well, which you'll want to find out how to use. Here are some of the biggest changes and improvements in Windows 10.
Feature
Description
Start Menu
The Start Menu is back in a form that mixes the Start Menu from
Windows 7 with the Start screen from Windows 8.
File Explorer in Windows 10 displays commands in a series of icons stored on different tabs. This combination of icons and tabs is known as the Ribbon interface. The following table shows the commands grouped under each Ribbon tab for File Explorer.
These tabs are displayed based on context. For example, you always see the File tab on the Ribbon interface, but you see the Network tab only when you access other computers on the network.
Skype can be a handy tool to use with Windows 10. It’s a good way to keep in touch with family, friends, or even business contacts. Keep reading for some tips on getting started with Skype.
Start Skype
There are many ways to start Skype in Windows 10, and by default, a Skype shortcut appears on the Start Menu.
Windows 10
An archive is a file containing one or more files along with their data. You use archives in Windows 10 to copy multiple files into a single file for easier portability and storage, or simply to compress files to use less storage space.Archives are also useful when you want to send multiple files to someone by email.
Windows 10
If you have a desktop or laptop computer with Windows 10, the best tool for taking screenshots is the Snipping Tool. With the Snipping Tool, you can take full-screen screenshots, screenshots of a specific window, and rectangular or free-form screenshots. Once you’ve taken a screenshot, you can edit it and use tools such as pens, highlighters, and erasers.
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Windows stores all of your user files and folders in C:Users, followed by your username. There, you see folders such as Desktop, Downloads, Documents, Music, and Pictures. In Windows 10, these folders also appear in File Explorer under This PC and Quick Access.If your computer has multiple partitions, you may want to change the location of one or more of your user folders.
The Windows 10 Remote Desktop Connection app allows you to connect to other computers or devices that are connected to your local network or that are on the Internet and have a public IP address. For example, you can use the Remote Desktop Connection app to connect to a colleague’s computer from your desk or to your work computer when you’re using some other computer or device.
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If you have a laptop or a 2-in-1 device with Windows 10, you can connect to the Internet while on the go, by using a USB mobile modem from your telecom provider. In order to use it, you need to plug the modem into a USB port and wait for Windows 10 to detect and install it.
Once that’s done, find the setup of a desktop app that’s made available by the telecom provider on your modem.
Windows 10
You can reconfigure certain ways that File Explorer works. All the configuration settings in Windows 10 are in a window named Folder Options. This window has three tabs filled with settings. Here’s how to access the Folder Options window, browse its settings, change them, and apply your desired configuration:
Open File Explorer.
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When you defragment a partition in Windows 10, the files stored on it are rearranged to occupy continuous storage locations. This process minimizes the time it takes the hard drive to find all the fragments of your files, thereby decreasing the time it takes you to access them. The startup time for Windows is also improved.
Windows 10
The Windows Mobility Center centralizes information and settings most relevant to mobile computers and devices such as laptops, netbooks, Ultrabooks, and 2-in-1s. The Windows Mobility Center isn’t available on desktop computers.
Windows Mobility Center’s role is to help you be mobile and to enable you to take quick actions, such as the following:
Change the brightness of the screen.
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Network discovery is an underrated and often misunderstood feature that allows Windows 10 to find other computers and devices on a network. This feature is automatically turned on when you’re connected to private networks like the one in your home or workplace but turned off when you’re connected to public networks that shouldn’t be trusted and when you don’t allow your PC to be discoverable on those networks.
Windows 10
OneDrive’s remote Fetch files feature allows you to remotely access any file from your Windows 10 computer, as long as the file is synced with OneDrive and this feature is enabled.
Microsoft removed this feature from Windows 8. But it’s back in Windows 10.
Enable Fetch
Here’s how to enable Fetch in OneDrive on Windows 10:
On the taskbar, click Show Hidden Icons.
Windows 10 allows you to enable different panes to make the most of your user experience. The different panes include: The Preview pane, the Details pane, and the Navigation pane. Here, you find details about enabling and using each of these panes.
Enable and use the Preview Pane
In File Explorer, you can enable a Preview pane that is shown on the right side of the window.
Windows 10
Encrypting the Windows 10 operating system drive with BitLocker (or any other encryption software) takes significant time and involves setting a password to use before starting Windows and using an encrypted drive.
It’s important to remember this password. Without it, you can’t access the encrypted drive. To prevent you from completely losing access to the encrypted drive, the encryption process includes a step to save a backup recovery key.
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You can open and view hundreds of file types on your Windows 10 computer or device. The most common types of files are documents, music, pictures, videos, and executable files. You may also work with specialized files from third-party apps, such as PDF files, but usually the types of files you encounter are the common ones.
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System Restore is a system recovery tool that allows you to reverse the changes made to the Windows 10 operating system. It’s like an Undo button but for changes made to system files and settings such as drivers, registry keys, and installed programs. System Restore is turned on by default.
Each time you make a significant change to Windows, such as the installation of drivers and apps, System Restore makes periodic snapshots (which are known as restore points) of your system’s hard drive.
Cortana is a very helpful tool that you can use as part of Windows 10. It is an easy feature to use, but first you need to make sure you have set up Cortana and enabled the Hey Cortana feature.
Set up Cortana
Before you set up Cortana, you need a Microsoft account to use it. After you sign in with your Microsoft account, here’s how to set up Cortana:
Click in the search bar located near the Start button on the taskbar.
Work Folders is a feature in Windows 10 that enables you to access your work files from your personal computer or device. With Work Folders, you can keep copies of your work files on your personal devices and have them automatically synchronized to your company’s datacenter.
Here’s an example of how an information worker (Let’s call her Alice) might use Work Folders to separate her work data from her personal data, while having the ability to work from any device:
Alice saves a document in the Work Folders directory on her computer at work.
A proxy server is an intermediary between your Windows 10 PC or device and the Internet. This server makes requests to websites, servers, and services on the Internet for you. For example, say that you use a web browser to visit www.wiley.com and your browser is set to use a proxy server.After you type www.wiley.
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Windows 10 lets you customize just about everything to make things functional for you. You can customize the settings to show more or fewer icons on the right side of the Windows 10 taskbar. Here’s how:
Open Settings.
Click System.
The list of available system settings appears.
Click Notifications & Actions.
When you connect Windows 10 to a new network for the first time, through a wireless network, a cable network, or a mobile USB modem, you’re asked whether you want to allow your PC to be discoverable by other PCs and devices on that network.
If you select Yes, your computer can find PCs, devices, and content on this network and to automatically connect to devices like printers and TVs.
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In Windows 10, you can set the AutoPlay defaults for media and devices. For example, you can set what happens each time you plug in a removable drive like a USB memory stick or a USB external hard disk. You can also set AutoPlay defaults for devices like memory cards and smartphones, such as the Windows 10 Mobile smartphone that you may have received at work.
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If you want more control over how you share a file or folder via OneDrive, you can use the OneDrive website to invite one or more people to the shared item. In addition, you can set their permissions (view or edit) and select whether they need to sign in with a Microsoft account before accessing your shared item.
OneDrive is Microsoft’s version of cloud storage, which allows for easy storage and sharing from anywhere. To share a file or folder with someone, you generate a sharing link on OneDrive. OneDrive automatically generates this link and stores it on the Clipboard. You can paste it anywhere you want; for example, in an email message, in a chat window on Skype, or on your favorite web browser.
If you need to work with two apps at the same time in Windows 10, it’s a good idea to snap them side by side so that each consumes half of the screen. To snap one app to the left, use the mouse to drag the title bar of the first app to the left side of the screen.
A transparent overlay appears, showing you where the window will be placed.
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Skype can be a great tool for those who use Windows 10 for work. Skype allows you to easily transfer files to others and also offers a share screen option to make sharing and collaboration easy.
Transfer files in Skype
When communicating with others on Skype, you may need to transfer files. To send a file to the person you’re talking to, follow these steps:
In the chat window, click the Send Contacts and Media button.
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Encrypting a removable drive such as a USB memory stick doesn’t take long in Windows 10, and it involves fewer steps than encrypting the operating system drive. After the encryption process ends, each time you plug your device into a Windows computer, File Explorer shows the device with a lock icon, which signals that the device is encrypted.
When you start File Explorer in Windows 10, it displays Quick Access, where you see a list of the folders you browse most frequently and the files that you recently accessed. This list changes over time as you use different folders.
Pin folders to Quick Access
You can always pin the folders and libraries that you want to access as quickly as possible to Quick Access.
Windows 10
In Windows 10, Microsoft introduces new gestures for controlling the operating system with the help of precision touchpads. These touchpads are included on many modern laptops and Ultrabooks, and they’re especially useful when you don’t have a mouse at hand.
Look below for a summary of the gestures you can perform on a precision touchpad:
Left-click an item: Tap one finger.
Windows 10
When you first browse a folder in Windows 10, File Explorer automatically applies a view that’s optimized for the contents of that folder. However, the Ribbon has a multitude of view options in the Layout section of the View tab:
Details: For each file and folder, the Details view shows several columns with information, such as Name, Date Modified, Type, and Size.
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You can use a VPN if you need to do some work in Windows 10 while you are away from the office. VPNs allow users to connect to private networks from the Internet in a secure manner. Many companies provide VPN services for their employees so that they can connect to the enterprises’ networks as needed.
If your workplace has this service, depending on how it’s set up and implemented, you may be able to connect to the VPN service either straight from Windows 10, using the features offered by the operating system, or via a special VPN client app that’s provided by your company.
Windows 10 lets you add quite a few different kinds of devices to your computer. From mouses to printers, you can add just about anything to help you interact with Windows 10.
View a list of your devices
Windows 10 offers you several lists of devices:
All devices that are connected to your computer
Installed printers and scanners
Available Bluetooth devices in your area (if your device has Bluetooth)
To view the devices available in Windows 10 follow these steps:
Open Settings.
If you frequently work with multiple languages, you need to know about the language options available with Windows 10. You can add a keyboard input language or take advantage of a language pack.
Add a keyboard input language
You may want to add a keyboard input language or two. To add a keyboard input language, follow these steps:
Open Settings.
Windows 10 doesn't require powerful hardware from the PC it runs on. However, just like any other operating system, it does require a minimum of hardware to run well. Here's what a PC needs to run Windows 10 well.
Part
Requirements
Processor (CPU)
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor
Memory (RAM)
1 gigabyte
Cortana is a helpful feature in Windows 10. If you need to make some tweaks to Cortana, the following instructions may be able to help you. Keep reading to find out how to configure how Cortana works, turn Cortana off, and find new Cortana commands.
Configure how Cortana works
You can change settings to maximize how Cortana works.
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The User Account Control (UAC) is a security feature that helps prevent unauthorized changes to your Windows 10 computer or device. These unauthorized changes can be initiated by users, apps, viruses, or other types of malware. UAC ensures that these changes are made only with the administrator’s approval. If these changes aren’t approved by the administrator, they will never be executed, and the system will remain unchanged.
Windows 10 comes jam-packed with features. Here are shortcuts and tips for using the keyboard, mouse, and Ribbon to get fast access to the most commonly used commands. You'll be commanding Windows 10 in no time!5 big changes in Windows 10Windows 10 brings many changes to the Windows world. Basically, it takes the best parts of Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Windows 10 provides hundreds of commands, but you'll likely use only a handful of those commands on a regular basis. To save time, use these Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts. With little effort, you can open files, find content, edit that content, and more!
Function
Keystroke
Start Menu
Windows
Search
Windows+S
You can control Windows 10 with your mouse or your keyboard. It's the traditional tool for positioning and clicking the cursor on the screen without using touch-sensitive devices.
Mouse Button Used
Action
Purpose
Left mouse button
Click
Moves the cursor, selects an object, pulls down a menu, or
chooses a menu command.
On tablets and 2-in-1 devices with touchscreens, you have fingertip control of Windows 10 using touch gestures. The following actions control your device with touch commands.
Action
Purpose
Tap
Tap once on an item to open, select, or activate it. This is
similar to left-clicking with a mouse.
Press and hold
Press and hold your finger on an item for a second, and Windows
shows information to help you find out more about the item or opens
a menu specific to what you're doing.
Disk images are computer files in Windows 10 that contain all the content and structure of a storage device, such as a hard drive, CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, or USB flash drive. A disk image is a single file that faithfully reproduces all the contents and capabilities of the storage device that it’s cloning.
View what’s inside ISO disc images
Think of a disk image as a clone of a DVD or some other device turned into a single file on your computer.
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