Hey everyone, if you're not already aware Windows 7 is expiring support in January
14th of 2020 so it's coming up quick here as the recording of this video.
Not as many people were on Windows 8 which is expiring in January 10th 2023.
Just because it was such a horrible interface in my opinion
so most people stuck with Windows 7 as a result or they upgraded to Windows 10 as
soon as it came out. If you're still a Windows 7 or 8 and afraid to move to
Windows 10. First of all, if you're on 8 10 is far easier to use and if you are
on 7 or 8 you need to watch this video and if you're a Mac user or are already
on Windows 10 or comfortable with the basics then what are you doing watching
this video in the first place? Anyway. I'm Daniel and in this tech-torial, I'm
going to share with you the top 5 differences you'll encounter with
Windows 10 and how easy it is to make it work. So you can make that change and
stick around for the bonus tip at the end.
Okay let's dive in here. With tip number one. How to shut down the computer?
As simple as this sounds, some people might question where the start button is
because they don't see the same symbol as it was used in Windows 7 and I know
people that just press the power button to shut down instead of doing it properly.
A little side note here, why you shouldn't shut down by holding down the
power button. First because it might just go to sleep instead of shut down and
that can cause issues beyond the scope of this video. Second, it might crash the
computer if you hold it down causing damage to the hard drive physically and
the operating system and it won't boot one of these days. So it's important to
know how to shut down. So the start button is the windows symbol by default
located in the bottom left corner of your screen. Although it can be moved.
If you click on that logo you'll see there's a power symbol here. If you
position the mouse over it it says power, and then when you click on it you'll see
the three options here for sleep, shutdown, and restart. So now you know
where to go to shutdown at the end of the day or troubleshooting an issue or
if you just need to reboot the computer.
Tip number two, where are all my programs?
Now Microsoft changed the design a little bit a few times since Windows 10 first came out.
So during the recording in this video, the latest version of Windows 10,
which I'm using here is version 1809 build 17763.678
which is good to know for all those how-to videos of Windows 10 as they can change anytime.
So here's how it works. Maybe a quick side note here is how to find out what version of Windows you have.
So you can right click on the start button go to system, and if you may have to
scroll down a little bit here and you'll see the window specifications,
the edition, what version it is, and what the OS build version is. So where's all
the programs? How to use it depending, on your mouse you may have three ways to do this.
So we go down to the start button of course and here is a list of all the
programs that you have. So the first easiest way I found is if
your mouse has a middle scroll button, then you can just simply position the
mouse anywhere on the list of programs and you can scroll up and down just that easy,
anywhere here. Now the second easiest way
of searching for program here, is click on one of the letters or a symbol here
and it brings up this category of all the letters. So if you're looking for a
Microsoft program you would click M for Microsoft and it takes you to the top of
the M list, and you'll see all the programs under that category. Now the
third and hardest way that even I struggle with and I just hate this that
they've done that, is the scroll bar to the right of the list of programs and
currently you'll see there is no scroll bar, but as soon as I move the mouse
there's a little line here and then soon as you put the mouse over that it
becomes thicker. So it's very difficult to work with like this but once you get
that there, you can grab that scroll bar and you can scroll. But as soon as you
position the mouse away from it again it goes thin and if you're not on the list
of programs you're not going to see the scroll bar at all.
So that's basically how that third method works. I hate that so using these
shortcuts like this or just using your middle scroll button is the easiest.
Tip number three is where is the control panel. So I'll show you the new replacement
control panel and how to access the original control panel as well.
With ofcourse, it is still there, it's just hidden. So through your Start button
again there's this little cog wheel and if you position the mouse over it,
it tells you it is the Settings button. So when you click on the settings you will
see the new control panel and some of the things should look familiar.
System settings, device settings, apps, where you can uninstall and set the defaults and
personalization. So these kind of things are all in here including your time,
language, regional date settings, that sort of thing. Even your network and if
you're not sure what category to go through, you can just type in something
here and find a setting and it will find it for you. Most of the time I don't even go in here.
What I like to do, when you go into the start button,
you don't have to click anywhere else just start typing in control,
and that's where you'll see the control panel come up.
So when you click on that you will now see your traditional control panel where you'll be in category view by default.
If you click up here on category you could go to small icons and it shows you all of the things here.
You go back there's large icons or category and again from here you can also go into search control
panel and search for something if you're not sure where it is. But you know that
it's somewhere within the control panel. So between the old one and the new one
you have both options available to you.
So tip number four, tablet mode. I'm not sure why you would even want to do this but if you're
using a tablet/laptop convertible type machine that maybe you want to have
it in tablet mode you have a touchscreen so you can make it in tablet mode and
then when you have the keyboard and mouse attached to it and you want to use
it as a regular laptop you can switch back and forth. So also I'm showing you
this because I've seen so many people turn this on by accident and get
completely lost and they just hate it. So it's good to know about this feature.
So in the bottom right corner, there's a notifications icon. If you click that
it'll give you a list of notifications of different things and here there is
tablet mode and for me I can't turn this on for some reason now that used to be
that I could turn it on but I guess I know I'm not using a tablet and there
could be something else here preventing me from having it turn on now. Obviously
I didn't look at that before recording this video but I've seen people turn it
on by accident so it's a good thing I can't turn to someone now so it won't
happen by accident. If your wireless isn't working you can see that tablet
mode is in gray but network is white as well as settings and nearby sharing.
You can click on these things to turn them on and off.
Tip number five is really helpful for people that want to get their Start menu customized,
is customizing the Start menu. So my Start menu looks completely different to what
anyone else's would because I've totally customized the hell out of this thing.
So what you can do is... there's a lot of
stuff and it usually comes up widescreen as well with two columns. Right-clicking
on something in that list right now you're able to unpin it from the Start menu.
and if there's something that you want to add there we'll simply find it here.
So we'll click on the letter here to call up this that you I just taught
you earlier. Click G for Google. There's Google Chrome, right click on it and I
want to pin it to the Start menu. Now what it does is it's gonna jump right to
the top or way down at the bottom and you can grab this and move it around
anywhere you want but what I want to do first, because it was smaller, right-click
on that, go to resize and I can make it small. Then I can now drag that and
you can see as I position it around, it can go anywhere in here; and I just let
go and drop it right there where I want. So you can resize any of these things
how you like and there's other features in there as well where you can pin the
program to the taskbar and uninstall it even right from the start menu. So you
don't have to go to the programs and features to uninstall. So that's that's
pretty much as easy as that for customizing the Start menu.
So your bonus tip. How to access a lot more stuff quick and easy that's kind of hidden.
I've already kind of given this away a little bit through showing you the system
information earlier. Instead of left click on the start button you would
right click on it. I did this earlier when I went to system but what you can
do is you can access your programs and features instead of going to the control
panel first and then finding it. You can just right click the start and go here.
There's the power options if you want to change about the system going to sleep
or turning off the drive automatically. The system information we saw that earlier.
Your device manager, for looking at drivers
and the hard drives that you have or external drives and a whole bunch of
stuff including PowerShell. Which in the earlier versions of Windows 10 it was
command prompt. Which was used in Windows 7 & 8. PowerShell has been around a long
time but now with Windows 10 the latest version they've forced you to have
Windows PowerShell as the default here instead of commands prompt.
So it can do the exact same things, it's just a lot more powerful.
Everything else here is pretty obvious including even shut down, restart,
all that's available here. Now another bonus tip, click on the start
button type in CMD and there's your old traditional command prompt.
and I'll give you yet one more is iExplore. So when you click on the start button you can
start typing in anything and you can see the programs there that are hidden.
So if you wanted to get that on your Start button or on the taskbar, you can then
right click on that program and add it. It's as simple as that. If you have any
other questions on how to find certain things just post it down in the comments below.
Happy to answer your questions. Appreciate it.
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