Windows 8.1 Plain & Simple by Joli Ballew, Nancy Muir

By Joli Ballew, Nancy Muir

Get the full-color, visible advisor that makes studying home windows 8.1 simple and straightforward! persist with the book’s effortless steps and screenshots and transparent, concise language to profit the main expedient technique to practice initiatives and resolve difficulties in home windows 8.1.

Here’s WHAT You’ll Learn:

• customize your commence monitor in cool new ways
• Use apps resembling Mail, humans, Calendar, Skype, and Paint
• Surf the net, and ship and obtain e mail and messages
• discover redesigned apps for song, Video, and home windows Store
• seek your records, media, and the web—all at once
• entry your records from the cloud with Microsoft SkyDrive

Here’s HOW You’ll research It

• bounce in anyplace you wish answers
• keep on with effortless steps and screenshots to work out precisely what to do
• Get convenient suggestions for brand new innovations and shortcuts
• Use do that! routines to use what you study immediately

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5 Repeat steps 1–3. 6 Right-click any thumbnail to close an app or to insert it (snap it) when you have another app already snapped. TIP Currently open desktop apps like Paint and WordPad are displayed on the taskbar in the desktop. You can click the icon on the taskbar to maximize it. 1 settings are available from the Settings charm, which provides tools for managing a computing session effectively. You can change the brightness of the screen, increase or decrease the volume, and power down the device, among other things.

4 Click or tap the Desktop tile. 5 Right-click or tap, hold, and release an empty area of the desktop. 1, 2 3 4 6 Click or tap outside of the resulting menu to return to the desktop. 5 TRY THIS While in any app, right-click to see its toolbar. While on a webpage, right-click to see a contextual menu that includes options to copy what’s on the page, open a link, or save a picture, among other things. 1, you might not close apps that often. You will likely open apps and then return to the Start screen or search for another app or file to open, leaving multiple apps open at one time.

You can use the Settings charm to change system volume, put your device to sleep or turn it off, and connect to a network, among other things. You can display the charms by using your mouse, keyboard, or touchscreen. Display charms You can display the charms by using any of the following three techniques: • • • Swipe your finger inward from the right edge of the screen. Press Windows logo key+C on your keyboard. Move your mouse to the upper-right or lower-right corner of the screen. TIP You can display the charms from both the desktop and the Start screen by using any of these methods.

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