Here are some tips and tricks
to use in Windows 10.
Use the clickable sections
to skip through to different features.
Aero Shake is a handy feature
to minimize multiple windows at once.
To use Aero Shake, left-click and hold
on the window bar of an open program.
While still holding,
move the window to the left and right rapidly.
All other windows will immediately minimize.
If you want to bring them back,
repeat the shaking movement.
To enable dark mode,
navigate to the start menu and select "Settings."
Then select "Personalization."
On the left, select the "Colors" menu.
Here we can swap between light, dark,
and custom settings modes.
You can also customize the accent colors of Windows
and when those colors appear on title bars.
To factory reset Windows 10,
navigate to the start menu and select "Settings."
Scroll down and select "Windows Update."
On the left side, click "Recovery."
On the top of this page,
we'll see the option "Reset this PC."
Click "Get started."
You'll have the option to either reset Windows
and keep your personal files
or to reset and wipe the operating system completely.
Make sure to back up all of your data
to an external drive or to a cloud solution
if selecting option two.
For this video, we'll do option one and keep our files.
On the next page, Windows will confirm
the reset action it will take.
Click "Reset" when ready,
and the process will take over.
After restarting and working in the background for a while,
Windows 10 will finish reinstalling
and bring you to your desktop.
Scrolling to a documents folder
will confirm your files have been saved,
as we chose to keep those.
To turn off background apps,
navigate to the start menu and select "Settings."
Select "Privacy,"
then scroll in that menu to find "Background apps."
On the top of this menu,
you can turn off all background apps automatically,
or you can scroll through the list of installed applications
to manually turn off specific items.
You can use dictation on any text-input program in Windows.
With your text area active,
use the shortcut Windows + H on your keyboard
to start the speech-to-text ability.
Speak into your computer's microphone,
and dictation will convert it to text.
To update Windows 10 to the latest version,
head to your browser and search for "Windows 10 download."
Click the result from Microsoft.com
to view the download options.
A notification to update to the latest OS release
should appear at the top with the prompt "Update now."
Click that to download the update installer.
When you open the installer,
it will say which version you have installed
and confirm if you can update to a newer release.
In this case, we have version 1909 installed,
while the newer release is 20H2.
Click "Update Now" to begin the process.
The installer will confirm
if your PC can handle the new update,
and once you click "Next,"
the update will start to download.
Once the download has finished,
the PC will start a 30-minute countdown
to restarting to finish the update.
You can click "Restart now" to begin it immediately.
Your PC will now restart itself and take over
as it installs the new OS version.
It'll provide an install status
and launch to the desktop once complete.
God mode is a hidden Windows feature
that compiles an array of functions into one menu.
To enable God mode, navigate to your desktop
and right-click to create a new folder.
We'll need to rename the folder
with a specific chain of text characters.
You can find this chain in the description and on screen.
Once entered, the icon will change
to the control panel icon
and the name will disappear.
Double-clicking this brings us to the God mode menu,
where we have a massive array of PC controls
and customization abilities.
The search bar on top lets us quickly find prompts
that would usually be buried in submenus
in the normal settings program.
Windows 10 expands on the window-snapping features
of prior OS versions.
To start split screening,
click and hold on the title bar of the window to snap.
Drag it to the left or right edge
until your mouse cursor disappears.
When the window stops moving
and flashes an outline of the window,
you can release the cursor.
The window is now pinned to this half of the screen.
On the left,
a collection of other active windows will appear.
Click on any of your active windows
to snap them into that half of the screen.
The simplest way to take a screenshot of Windows
is called Snip & Sketch.
Hold down Windows, shift, and the S key.
This will dim the screen,
and a menu bar will appear on top.
Use the menu on top to do a free-form,
window, or a full-screen capture.