WINDOWS 10 BOOTCAMP: Learn the Basics of Windows 10 in 2 Weeks (2014)

Part 1. First Week

Chapter 3. Understanding Settings

By understanding the settings and knowing how to use it, you’ll easily be able to navigate Windows 10 and make the most out of it!

Accounts

You can find the Accounts tab under the Charms bar, and is basically about your Windows account.

Your Account is your primary sign-in account. This is linked to Microsoft’s Cloud Network.

Sign-in options will ask you how exactly you want to open your computer. You can make use of normal log-in plus password, choose Windows Hello, which would allow you to log in using biometrics.

Work Access tells you whether the PC or your account is connected to another network.

Family and Other Users allows you to add more admins to the PC. To do this, just click Set up account for assigned access > Choose an Account > Choose an App.

Sync Your Settings allows you to sync this PC with your other gadgets—and other computers at home, as well.

Privacy

Of course, you can also make sure that your privacy is protected with the help of Windows 10. Here’s how:

General is about deciding whether you’d like your name to appear on apps, programs, photos, and any other file that is connected to your computer.

Location basically works on GPS, and allows you whether you’d like to let others see where you are or not.

Microphone gives you the chance to turn the microphone on or off.

Speech, Inking, Typing mostly gives you the option to use Cortana (Windows 10’s digital assistant) or not.

Account Info, Calendar, Contacts, Messaging, Radio just give you permission whether you’d like to sync them with other devices or not.

Other Devices gives you permission to sync Xbox One and information found there with your Microsoft account.

Feedback. Choose whether you’d want Microsoft to ask you for feedback once a day, once a week, automatically, always, or never.

Devices

The Devices Tab gives you options as to which devices you’d like to connect/sync with your PC.

Printers and Scanners allows you to add printers to your computer. To do this, just click Devices and Printers> Device Manager> Related Settings> Add a Printer or Scanner and follow the instructions you’ll see onscreen.

Connected Devices, meanwhile, is about other connected devices that are not printers or scanners.

Mouse and Touchpad gives you a chance to configure Mouse and Touchpad settings. Just choose Mouse and Touchpad > Related Settings> Additional Mouse Options.

Typing allows you to choose whether you’d like to use a physical or onscreen keyboard.

Autoplay allows you to choose whether Autoplay should be switched on or off.

Ease of Access

The Ease of Access Tab contains Windows 10’s Accessibility Settings.

Narrator helps you gain voice protocol. It basically reads what is shown onscreen, or whatever you type, and you can choose between David and Zira as your narrator. You can also add the sounds you want to hear, or the language you want to focus on.

Magnifier gives you a floating toolbar and also magnifies your screen.

High Contrast allows you to choose a High Contrast theme.

Closed Captions provides you with subtitles or captions to help you understand what you hear onscreen. It works for sites such as Hulu and Netflix.

Keyboard and Mouse contains well, Keyboard and Mouse settings—like what’s in earlier versions of Windows.

Personalization

Then again, you also have the chance to personalize your Windows 10 Experience. Take note, though, that you’d have more chances to customize your experience—but more of that on a later chapter. Here are the basics first:

Background is mainly just the wallpaper of your computer, and choose how you’d want the photo to fit on your screen.

Colors are the colors that would be used for your desktop, toolbars, etc.

Lockscreen is what you’ll see onscreen while it is locked. Click Pictures, and you’ll see the 5 recent lockscreen pictures used, as well as a Browse button for you to choose photos from your files. Choosing Slideshow would make a slideshow of pictures as your lockscreen. You can also choose Screen Timeout, and more Screen Saver Settings, as well.

Themes would help you choose which theme you’d like to use. Go to Classic Theme Settings > Related Settings to do this.

Start helps you turn applications and notifications on or off—and more. You’d learn more about this in the next chapter.

Update and Restore

And of course, you also have the Update and Restore tab, which works something like this:

Activation is about the version of Windows that you have, and gives you the chance to change Product Key.

Advanced Options would give you more Update settings to choose from.

Backup gives you the chance to backup your settings.

Click Check for Updates so you could check for updates manually.

For Developers is all about making apps and programs while on Windows 10.

Recovery contains options that you can use to fix your computer, which are: Reset PC, Go back to Earlier Build, and Advanced Startup.

The tab named Windows Update contains everything you’d ever need to update Windows.

Windows Defender, meanwhile, is your cloud protection system.