Windows 8 is a lot different than Windows 7
however our hope is with this tutorial video that you learn some tips and
tricks
to make it easier to adapt to this new operating system
Windows 8 was designed with a touch
interface in mind, so it's a really great operating system for something like
a phone or a tablet however unless you have a touch computer
it gets a little bit tricky because things are hidden
that we're used to seeing such as a start menu
or our ability to find a different applications in the computer
so let's go ahead and learned a couple these tips and tricks and see if it'll
help you work with Windows 8
and feel a bit better about using this operating system we're seeing right here
when you first log in
is the start page in this start page has a bunch of different pieces
information and programs and these are what we call
charms so we have a news charm here we have the Internet Explorer charm for an
application
and we even have a charm so we can see the regular desktop that we are use to
this allows everything to be right at your fingertips so it's easier access
however it can get kinda frustrating when it doesn't have the charms
that you wish it had so let's go and talk about how to add charms onto your
Start screen
if you right click anywhere outside of a charm, so anywhere over here not on the
charms itself
but if you right click its gonna bring up this bottom bar that allows you to
choose
all app's this is going to show you all the applications on your computer
so I like to use Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access quite a bit
so scroll over and i'm looking for microsoft office 2003
and I'll find word first and I'm going to right click on word
and its gonna bring up another menu that allows you to uninstall the program
pin it to the start page which is what we wanna do, open it etc
so right now we'll pin it to the start page and let's go ahead and choose
PowerPoint 2013
are right click on it and choose pin to start
and right click on Excel
pin to start and right click on access and pin to start
so then, we can pin
anymore charms so we want to, and if you're unsure if it was pinned or not
you can click on
or right click on that program and now you can see there's un-pin
from the start, now if you want this also appear on your desktop in the task bar
which will go to in a second
then you can do that here so go ahead and click pin to taskbar
and remember that I did this so when I show you later, you can see where it
went to
alright so now that we are done pinning the applications that we like
we can minimize here and this is gonna show is actually more
applications or a easier way to find them, so to get back to the start menu
you kind wondering where you need to go now when it comes to the Windows 8
operating system its hidden some different things
so that you can still easily access them, but they're not in your
field of vision, they're not taking up space, this is hard though when you're
first learning this operating system because you don't know were anything is
so the important thing to remember with Windows 8 is that the corners are
really important
so if I hover my mouse over the bottom left hand corner you'll see a little
icon come up for the start screen
when the icon comes up you don't have to move your mouse you can just move all
the way to the left corner
click a and you go back to your Start screen if you move all the way to the
top right
or all the way to the bottom right
you're gonna see our Charms menu and this is gonna allow us
to go to different areas of our computer to do different things change the
settings on our computer
find the devices that are hooked up to our computer
share something and search our computer
okay so now if I scroll
along my Start Screen you can see that here all those charms that I just
added now these are all the software tools that I use
let's say for work I can actually create a group with
with these so I can hit the minimize button
and this is going to show you the entire start page
and these are in a group, you're able to move charms around
and because they're all four in a group I can right click and now I can name that
group
so I'll call this work apps,
Work Apps
double-click and I'll let you zoom back in so now this group
has been categorized, our name to make it easier to work with
so let's say I use Excel little bit more than PowerPoint I can move my charms around
as needed, so let's talk about how to get to the desktop
and use your computer in the way that you're more familiar with
you can choose the desktop charm and that'll take you straight to the to the
desktop
and it looks pretty similar to what we've been working with
but unfortunately it's missing the start menu
well when you go to the bottom left there's a start menu
our the start page, but we're used to clicking on start, going to programs and
finding everything from there
and just so you know sometime in fall 2013
office is gonna release windows 8.1 and it's gonna bring back some of that
functionality that we're use to
so from here we can open up some the icons on our desktop
we can work with any of the items on our task bar so this is our task bar
remember when I actually added that Excel charm
to the taskbar that's why that one is there
so I can go ahead and open up a program lets say I wanted to open up
Mozilla Firefox and this is going to
bring up a regular we know that we are pretty familiar with
in terms of finding things it's a little bit difficult
cuz we can go back to your start page here we can search our computer
but what you're gonna be using most often is something called the file
explorer
and this allows you to explore the files on your computer so you can go to your
desktop
your downloads folder and in your libraries folder you have your
traditional documents pictures music and videos folders
and then this is were you can go to computer and you can find your flash drive and
your DVD drive
and anything connected through a network so, what happens when you plug something in
like a flash drive our you put a DVD into a Windows 8 system
well unfortunately I have already kind of done this on this computer
the first time you ever plug a flash drive in, it actually brings up a little
window and upper right hand corner asking you what you want to do with this
type of an object
and I chose to have it always open files, let me show you what that looks like
I right click on the flash drive and go to auto play
and so it's gonna bring up this little window that gives you these four options
so I originally chose open folder to view files
once you choose something it won't ask you that question again
the only way to change when it does is to right click on that object
do auto open play to play and then change it it does so
for this one I just wanna open folder to your files and that's what's gonna
happen anytime you play in a flash drive
so when it comes to looking in file explorer
we have a couple have different controls or features that are actually pretty
cool for Windows 8
so if I click on my flashdrive all the sudden I have these options appear
and this helps me to figure out how can I rename it how can I
open and I'm if I go to manage I can be checked in and that's really good
is never just wanna play out if your computer when you're finished your
with your flash drive in you've closed all your programs you want to come in
and checked it right here
to make sure it doesn't corrupt your drive but
for now let's go ahead and injected because this is just
basics of how to run Windows 8 machine
so now you know how to find your documents how to find your flash drive
and you know how to get to the start menu and how to get to the desktop
and last but not least you're probably wondering
how in the world do actually show up this computer down
well now owns a little bit trickier again if you move to the top right or
the bottom right corner of the screen you're gonna bring up your terms menu
and you're gonna go to Settings in this is again where you can change
you can personalize your PC you can
change the brightness or the are you on it you can go to power which is what
we're gonna do
and we're going to see their sleep shutdown or restart
so hopefully this video has helped you adapt to Windows 8
it's going to take some practice and getting used to the different processes
instead of what were normally used to such as with the start menu
but also remember that was when does it point one its gonna bring back some
those features that we really
know and love when it comes to working with the computer with a touch system
Windows 8 as it is it's going to be really great but if you're using a mouse
you're probably gonna wanna update to Windows 8.1