Hey guys what’s up?
Trisha Hershberger here.
Today I’m gonna go ahead and show you some tips and tricks that you can use on Windows
10.
Whether you upgraded or not yet you might just be curious and here’s some of the stuff
that after playing with it for a few days I found out that you can do.
Multitasking is great on Windows 10!
Not only will you be able to snap like your familiar with before.
Lets say we want to put our store on one side and our Steam store on the other side.
You can use hot keys for that.
The WINDOWS key either direction while your in a program will work for that.
Windows to one side and then you’ll see snap assist pops up on the other side here
saying, “What do you want to put on the other side?”
Oh, we changed our minds, we’re going to play a little bit of Minesweeper.
Yeah, Minesweeper is back.
That’s pretty cool.
But say you want to snap more than one thing at a time you can also use WINDOWS-UP and
DOWN to snap up and down.
Or you can take it and pull it into the corner.
Lets pull it into our bottom corner; it snaps into that corner.
Lets go ahead and snap this right up here just kinda so you can see multiple things
at the same time.
And lets put that there, that there and we’re still hanging out on Steam over here.
So, you have all these different options.
Again, those hot keys are WINDOWS-UP, DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT.
But not only can you switch between apps that way, ALT-TAB, the good ol’ faithful is still
there unchanged from prior versions of Windows.
The tried and true.
You also have Windows TAB now, will take you into task view.
Task view is a new thing you’ll see just down here on the task bar.
You can either take that on or off of the task bar, it’s up to you.
But it shows you everything you have open in one spot.
And you’ll see down here desktop one and desktop two; now that’s because I’ve chosen
to open multiple desktops which is also an options here in Windows.
So it’s like, “Aw, look at this nice clean desktop that I have.”
And if you want to swap between desktops you’ll do WINDOWS-CNTRL, and the other direction.
So you can work on multiple desktops at a time, you can work on multiple apps at a time
and really increase your functionality that way.
And the hot key to switch between desktops again is WINDOWS-CNTRL, and then LEFT or RIGHT.
If you want to make a new desktop thats, WINDOWS-CNTRL-D. If you want to close a new desktop it’s,
WINDOWS-CNTRL-F4.
And swapping between, if you’re like, “Oh, I have only Hearth Stone on this desktop,”
and I want to go into task view and say, move one of these messier things, perhaps from
one desktop to another.
So lets go into that and say, “Lets put Minesweeper in the same desktop,” you can
literally just click it and drag it down there.
Also, new in Windows 10 there are Universal Apps.
These are basically to make the experience the same whether you are on a tablet, whether
you’re on a phone, etc.
But if you’re like, “Hey, but Trisha what if I don’t have a Windows’ phone or Window’s
tablet?”
Well you’ll be happy to know in the Start Menu, yes the Start Menu is back, it includes
a little live tile love over here.
You will see Phone Companion, which I am going to pop open for you.
Phone Companion basically lets you have that Universal App experience if you want those
apps on a phone that is not a Windows’s phone.
So, if you have an Android phone or and iPhone or and iPad or and Android tablet, etc, you
can still get those.
So lets go ahead and say I wanted to link my Android phone up to some of the things
I was really enjoying on Windows 10.
You can put the new Windows’ Photo app, you can put your Windows’ Music app, you
can put one note on there, you can put Skype on there, etc.
And this is just a really easy way to do all that in one spot.
So thats kinda fun.
Something else new on Windows 10 is Cortana, Cortana’s in everything.
And before you get all, “Wait, voice recognition is not that good.
I’d rather just type it.”
You can ask Cortana by just typing and that’s super easy.
Or you can ask her things like lets.
She’s good at trivia lets try, “What’s up?”
Oh, she says, “A brilliant star during World War II, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr co-invented
a secret communication system that can change radio frequencies to keep enemies from decoding
messages.
Used today in cell phone technology, very cool.
Thank you so much Cortana.
But thats not all that Cortana can do.
Cortana is also in Microsoft Edge if you’ve played with the Edge browser.
So let me go ahead and “merp, merp” get rid of those and lets maximize this so we
can look at Edge.
Mexicali is a restaurant that I frequent here in LA, I like it a lot.
So I’m in Microsoft Edge and you can see Cortana is already up here in the address
bar saying, “I got directions, hours and more!”
Let’s go ahead and click that.
And she puts all that stuff right there on the side so I don’t even have to go away
from the page and she’s gotten it together for me which is a very, very cool feature
to have in my opinion, I like that a lot.
Also if there’s something you don’t understand on the page, let’s say, “I have no idea
what, blue agave tequilas are.”
I can highlight, “blue agave tequilas,” and then click, Ask Cortana.
And right here in the side again without having to open up a new tab and search for it, Cortana
will tell me via Bing what I need to know about tequila.
Edge also introduces, Inking.
So when you’re on the page here you can see just up here it looks like a little pen
writing on a notepad.
It says, “Make a Web Note.”
So you can ink, I feel like, “Oh, no he made me ink,” from Finding Nemo.
But you can ink all over whatever you want.
You’re like, “Hey, welcome.”
And if you want to send it to you’re friends like, “We’re going here for dinner.”
You can either save it or share it right from here, theres also highlight if you want to
highlight, add a type note.
You can take a clip of it if you want to save that to something else.
That’s an option built right into the browser.
Alright, now screw Edge lets go ahead and get to gaming.
Windows is actually coming around and talking to the gamers now.
Yay!
There’s improved support for DirectX12 in Windows 10 which is great and they give you
the ability to stream your Xbox games to you Windows 10 computer through the Xbox app.
I tried to dig into my sources to see how long we would have to wait to stream PC games
to the Xbox and they were not allowed to tell me anything about that but, “It’s in the
works,” was kind of the unofficial answer.
Fingers crossed that we get that soon because I like my PC collection.
I have a much greater PC collection than Xbox collection and I’d love to be able to play
those on my living room couch.
You can also use the Xbox app to record gameplay now within Windows which is cool.
Lets go ahead and bring up Hearth Stone.
We’re gonna launch it, we’re gonna pretend that I’m going to play.
I know, sadly I can’t play right now, but even it tells me press, WIN-ALT-R to start
or stop a recording.
So those are just a few of the tips and tricks that I’ve learned in the past couple days
using Windows 10.
If you are using Windows 10 right now or if you were part of the Windows’ insider program
and you’ve picked up other tips and tricks along the way please let me and the viewers
in the comment section know what you’ve found out.
And if you have any questions you’d like to see future tech videos on now that I’m
doing tech videos every other Friday please let me know.
Alright, guys I will see you in a bit.