Getting Started with Windows 10 - University of Aberdeen

Quick guide to Windows 10

"What's new in windows 10?"

Windows 10 is the latest Operating System from Microsoft, superseding Windows 7 and 8. There are a number of new features as well as improvements on features that existed in these two previous systems. This guide will introduce you to some of these new features and how they can be configured1.

Start Menu

? Access the Start menu by clicking the Windows icon in the bottom left of the screen.

? On the left hand side you will see a list of folders, settings, power options and apps.

? On the right hand side are the new app tiles. Some tiles are live tiles meaning they will show the latest information, e.g. news headlines. You can customise these groups of tiles (see page 2) to display the ones you want.

Find your apps

? Apps installed on your PC are listed alphabetically.

? Scroll through the list and click an app to open it.

- You can also click the Start button and type the name of any app to find and launch it. For example, type `outlook' to quickly find Microsoft Outlook in the search results.

1 Some features are unavailable on classroom PCs

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Log off

To log off and return to the login screen

? Click the Start button ? Click the account icon at the top of

the menu ? Click Sign out

You can also

- Right-click the Start button

- Hover over Shut down or sign out

- Click Sign out

Shut down

To shut down the PC at the end of the day

? Click the Start button ? Click the Power button ? Click Shut down

You can also

- Right-click the Start button

- Hover over Shut down or sign out

- Click Shut down

Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete also displays options to lock your PC, switch to a different user account, shut down your PC or access the task manager.

Customise tiles

The tiles on the Start menu can be adjusted to suit your own preferences:

? Add a new title

- Click Start

- Find the app you want to pin, e.g. Calculator

- Right click the app tile

- Click Pin to Start

? Move a tile

- The app tile will appear at the right hand side of the Start menu.

- Click and drag the tile to re-order it

? Remove a tile

- Right click the tile - Click Unpin from Start

? Resize a tile

- Right click the tile - Click Resize - Choose Small or Medium

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? Turn off live tiles

- Right click the live tile, e.g. Weather

? Create a tile group

- Hover your mouse above a pinned tile- the Name Group heading appears

- Click Name Group and type a new name

- Press the Enter key

Quickly navigate the list of apps

The alphabetical list of apps installed on your PC will be quite long, but includes group headings for each letter of the alphabet (plus Most used and #). You can use these headings to navigate quickly to a particular area of the list.

? Click the Start button.

? Click any group heading in the list to display a grid of letters.

? Click an letter in the grid to find apps beginning with that letter.

Clicking the File Explorer button in the Start menu opens the File Explorer window.

You can right-click a folder in File Explorer and pin it to the Quick Access area so it appears at the top of the folder list in File Explorer. The first eight items listed in this area will appear under the Pinned category in the File Explorer Jump List. Right-click an existing item to unpin it. The Start menu displays a list of your most-used apps at the top left.

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Internet Browsers

Windows 10 now has two internet browsers built in- Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11. You will be familiar with the traditional Internet Explorer 11 browser which works just as before and is intended for legacy web applications. Microsoft Edge is a new browser for the modern web. It will run Flash Player but not plug-ins such as Java.

Set the home page in Edge

? Click the ellipsis (...) menu in the top right corner ? Click Settings at the bottom of the menu ? Scroll down and click View advanced settings ? Click in the box in the Show the home button section and

type the address of your desired homepage ? Click the Save button at the right

Import your favourites into Edge

? Click the Hub menu in the top right of the window

? Click the Star icon for Favourites ? Click Settings ? Choose Import from another browser ? Select the browser you want to import from ? Click Import

Set the default browser to Internet Explorer 11

? Click the Start button ? Click Settings to access the Settings app ? Click Apps ? Click Default apps in the menu at the left

hand side of the screen ? Scroll down to the Web browser section and

click the app tile to display the list of browsers ? Click the Internet Explorer tile ? Click the X in the top corner to close the

Settings app

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Set the default search engine in Edge

? Open the Edge browser and browse to the search engine's website (e.g. google.co.uk)

? Click the ellipsis (...) menu in the top right corner

? Click Settings, then click View advanced settings at the bottom of the menu

? Scroll down to the section Search in the address bar with

? Click Change search engine ? Select your search engine's website ? Click Set as default.

Note: If you don't select the search engine, the Set as default button will be greyed out.

Cortana

Windows 10 includes Cortana - a virtual assistant similar to Siri on Apple devices. To access Cortana: ? Right-click a blank area on the Task Bar and click Cortana from the pop-up menu. ? Choose between displaying the Cortana icon only or the icon and search box

? Click the Cortana icon or click in the search box ? Type your query into the search box

OR ? If you have a microphone, click on the microphone icon in the search box to talk to Cortana. Note: if you select the Hidden option you will no longer see an icon or search box on the Taskbar, but you can still search by clicking the Start button and typing the name of your search item.

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