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hello and welcome to my beginners
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tutorial for Windows 10 let's take a
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look at the screen here at the top is
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your desktop on which you may have a
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variety of icons as we have here in the
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lower left hand corner is the start
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button ok there is a line of icons on
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the left the first one at the bottom
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here is power if you click on that this
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is how you can you know shut down
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restart or put your computer to sleep ok
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and the next one is settings that if I
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clicked on that it would open the
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Settings app and then we have quick
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links to your pictures and your
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documents these the default folders
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where those would be stored and the very
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top icon is your account right so in
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this case the account name is owner and
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if I click on that I can sign out I can
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lock the machine if you're in a
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situation where you need security you
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can click on lock and you know the
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screen kind of like the screensaver lock
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screen will come up and anyone who wants
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to use a computer from that point
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forward will be prompted for your
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password alright and then you can jump
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in and change some account settings as
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well alright so that's the start button
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and to the right we have the shortcut
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panels here these can be moved around
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right this is a an environment that
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began in Windows 8 and you can add
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things from here to here I should say or
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you can delete things from here right
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and of course the main area is this
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scrollable list of all the software and
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apps that are installed on your machine
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and they are ordered alphabetically and
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if you click on any of the letters like
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if I click on P here you'll see a list
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of all the letters in the alphabet and
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any that have actual entries will be
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and for example if I wanted to something
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in the m area I could click on M and
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then find mail or Microsoft edge or what
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all right so other things that you might
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want to know here are if you right click
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on any of these icons you get a bunch of
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options and under more here you can
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either pin or unpin from the taskbar
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down at the bottom of the screen you can
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adjust some settings depending on the
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app and you can also pin or unpin from
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start so if i unpin then we see that
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edge disappears there and if i right
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click and pin to start then it appears
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or reappears in this case so to the
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right of the start button you'll either
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have this search box or a little search
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icon typically speaking and here you
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could actually do Google searches right
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so if we wanted to you know search for
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horses I could just type in word horses
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and hit enter and search would come up
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in your default browser with your
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default search engine right also you can
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search for programs so there is a
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Settings app Windows 10 settings app but
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if you're more familiar with the old
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style control panel you can actually
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start typing in the name of that so you
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don't type in the word control and
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you'll see a a best match for your
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system control panel here will be one of
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the entries and if we click on that
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we'll have the control panel you can
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maximize that I prefer the view by small
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icons but you can also go into the
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category of you if that's what you're
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more familiar with all right and here we
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can do things like you know check out
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the system and this system for example
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it has an Intel Xeon processor
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gigabyte of ram and we can tell here
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that Windows is properly activated
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alright and we can also look at our
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version so Windows 10 Pro is what's on
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this machine alright so that's a quick
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way to get to things that even if you
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wanted to say jump into notepad any
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software on the machine generally
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speaking will come up if you do a search
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for it alright so and next to search you
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will find cortana okay so now cortana is
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like the microsoft AI you can talk to
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her and she'll answer questions all that
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kind of thing i tend to prefer not to
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use Cortana just for privacy concerns
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and also performance issues if the
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computer is constantly listening to hear
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if you would like to tell it something
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well you know that's a bunch of
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processing that you could do without if
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you don't really use that feature much
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so that and a few other things we can
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clear up off of the taskbar in a typical
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case so you know you've got your start
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you've got your search area here you've
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got your taskbar here and you've got
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your notification area too on the bottom
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right so let's click right-click I
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should say on the taskbar and I'm gonna
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uncheck show Cortana button for example
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right and also for search instead of the
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big search box there which takes up
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quite a bit of room we can have it show
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search icon right you see how it
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condenses into this little icon and then
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if you click on that you still get the
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box shows up right above that which in
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in my opinion is a much more optimized
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way to work right now when you open
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programs you're the active programs will
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be highlighted in this way so say if I
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opened up edge and I got the file
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explorer open will get the highlighted
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icons on the taskbar so it shows you
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what's open now they'll start to stack
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instance is open so say if I right click
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here on file explorer and I click on
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file explorer again then I get two
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instances of it right if I minimize edge
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there we can see the two of them and
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you'll notice that it kind of layers but
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it's very subtle and for my purposes
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when I'm working I don't want that kind
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of subtlety I don't want to have to
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hover over the two icons and see the
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previews and then choose between them
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which is of course the default of how
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things work I prefer a larger more
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descriptive icon and had to have them
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separated so to do that we can
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right-click on the taskbar and go to
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taskbar settings and under the combined
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taskbar buttons option I prefer to
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choose never right and then you'll see
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what happens down here I can close see
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what we got settings open we've got our
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to file explorers and we've got our
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Microsoft edge so it's much easier to
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distinguish between them and to see even
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open at one time right so now if I close
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settings you see that closes and I can
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usually click between these two or this
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third one and it's just that much more
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obvious of what's going on all right so
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let's close these off here and other
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things that I find you know as a guy who
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services computers I don't know anybody
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who uses this people icon and very few
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people use the touch keyboard right so
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if we right click we can uncheck show
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touch keyboard and we can uncheck show
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people on the taskbar right now there is
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one other icon that you may want to
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either use all the time or you may never
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use right and that is this task View
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button here or icon I should say when we
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click on that it will give you a nice
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view of everything that's running on
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your computer it will show you the
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various desktops that you can use give
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you the ability to add a new desktop so
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if you're say you'd like to optimize one
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desktop for home use and one desktop for
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work use that kind of thing you can
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switch between them and in this area and
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manage which icons appear there and
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which backgrounds that kind of thing but
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again very few people actually use that
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in my experience so if you don't need
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that extra icon sitting there we can
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right now in the notification area over
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here in the bottom right don't forget
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that there's this little up arrow here
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if there's enough icons that the system
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will start to hide some of them and here
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you can see other things that are
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running okay now you'll see on this icon
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there's a little triangle with an
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exclamation point on it if I click on
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that when I sort of like a prompt for
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that something wants attention right so
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here it's saying that virus and threat
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protection is actually turned off so we
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can either dismiss that notice or we can
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turn it on which of course I think it's
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a good idea so let's turn that on and we
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can close this but the thing I wanted to
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point out here is that you can manage
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which icons appear here and whether you
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want this area to collapse at all so
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once again if you right-click and go to
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taskbar settings and then look at the
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notification area options you can select
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which icons appear on the taskbar okay
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so say if you don't use Microsoft
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onedrive you're not interested in seeing
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its status all the time you can go ahead
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and turn that off and you'll see that it
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disappears right away from the
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notification area all right and then
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also you may decide that you don't want
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anything to hide and you want to show
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everything so that you have a complete
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view of what's running in your
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notification area so you can
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choose always show all node icons in the
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notification area right so you can
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choose that option I'm gonna turn that
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off and I'll keep those two windows
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security actually that one I would think
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would be more important than onedrive
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for myself so I'll turn that one on and
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that's an optimization there so also
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here's your system time if you if you've
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got a brand-new computer at that time
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may not be accurate right so you may
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want to right click here and go to
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adjust date and time right here you can
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do things like choose your time zone
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add whether it is going to adjust for
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daylight savings time automatically or
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not right and you can also have it set
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the time automatically once you choose
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your time zone it can check on clocks
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and do that kind of thing now if we turn
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that off then you can click here and
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change the date and time manually right
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but I'll just keep that on and we'll
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close off this area here and so that is
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a general introduction to this the you
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know spacing and icons down at the
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bottom there now in terms of the icons
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on your desktop right those can be
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easily managed as well so say there was
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an icon that you don't particularly need
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yeah you can always drag that into the
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recycle bin for example right and if
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you've made a mistake doing that you can
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press ctrl Z on your on your keyboard
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and undo that also you can right-click
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and you know rename icons if you find
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that the name isn't legible or obvious
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enough right and if if you click off the
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icons just on the desktop itself you get
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a bunch of other options for example you
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can choose to view large icons or that
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you know the default medium icons or if
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there's a lot of icons on your desktop
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like to have a bit more room you can
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choose the smaller ones right and you
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can also choose how they're sorted so we
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can you know you can sort by name or you
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can sort by type or even by date
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modified right and also under view you
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can have auto arrange icons selected
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which will you know any new icons will
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just automatically go to the left edge
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of the screen and in and the sort
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according to your sorting scheme if you
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don't like that if you like to put your
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icons anywhere that you want and not
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have them constantly streaming to the
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one side of your desktop you can uncheck
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auto arrange icons if it has been
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checked and if you like a clean desktop
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you can actually uncheck show desktop
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items and then you'll see nothing except
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for your background right and for some
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people that's how they like to work
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because they find all the icons are very
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distracting visually and they prefer the
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the cleaner access through the start
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button or the taskbar alright so and and
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of course with as I mentioned with the
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auto arrange off you can move icons
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around wherever you'd like them
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sometimes people have a picture on their
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desktop with a you know a central item
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in the picture and they don't want that
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so they arrange all of their icons
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around that alright so let's look at a
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few important things if you have a new
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computer or even if it's not so new one
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important aspect is to keep it updated
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right so you can click on the start
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button and go to settings ok and the
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last item in settings generally is
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update and security so if you click on
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that you'll be in the Windows Update
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area now sometimes what happens is you
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end up instead of on the the main
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Windows Update screen you end up on
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these other categories down here so you
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just click on Windows Update to make
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sure that you're in the right area here
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and here we have various options about
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controlling Windows Update let's pop
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into Advanced Options for a moment and
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just make sure that receive updates for
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other Microsoft products when you update
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Windows it's turned on ok and you know
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that's important if you have Microsoft
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Office or anything else you want to keep
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that in sync with the updates when
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possible now there are other options
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I would suggest turning on show a
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notification when your PC requires every
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start to finish updating it's always
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good to be notified of when your
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computer is going to restart that way
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you'll know it maybe not to leave
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something running overnight that's just
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going to be interrupted if your computer
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is going to restart after an update
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right and there are also options here to
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pause updates so if you don't like the
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aggressive Microsoft updating schedule
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you can defer updates for up to 35 days
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but just be warned that after that 35
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days that you're essentially going to be
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forced to update your computer right so
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but you may like the peace that comes
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with not having updates streaming in
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every couple of days and you know
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interrupting your workflow or
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all right let's go back here and you can
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always view update history if you'd like
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to see what updates have been applied or
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even what updates have failed sometimes
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updates don't come in properly and you
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might want to check out when when they
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failed and which ones right you can also
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change the active hours right so the
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idea of active hours is you know many
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updates most updates in fact require
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your system to restart and this will
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happen automatically and as I
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majestic earlier if you're running
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backups or anything else that may take a
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long time a long processing application
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that's just gonna run overnight and you
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don't want your computer to restart
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during that time you can always change
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your active hours here right so you can
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click on change and choose new time
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start time and end time and hit save and
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so you know that can that can be
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critical in term in depending on what
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you're up to and there's also a choice
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to automatically adjust your active
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hours for this device based on activity
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so if you turn that on Microsoft will
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kind of record when you're typically
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using your computer and then will
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typically not restart during those times
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okay so also here a quick way to pause
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updates you can click this several times
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to pods updates for seven days and then
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if you click it again it'll be 14 and
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21 etc right so up to the 35 that we saw
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in the Advanced Options so that's this
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is a quick quick way to pause updates
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and of course if you want to check for
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updates go ahead and click on this
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button now typically when you jump in
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here you'll often see you know you're up
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to date right and in a last check time
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what I find on many systems when I go
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into service them is that it will say
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you're up to date but if I click on
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check for updates it will find two or
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three or four updates and then apply
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them all right so if you want to be
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proactive about updates go ahead even if
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you see that you're up to date
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bit click the button and then if after
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doing an immediate check it all again
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says you're up to date then of course
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you are up to date but in many cases
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aren't quite right you're not on the
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cutting edge of updates so if you'd like
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to be go ahead and click that button
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even if it says you're up-to-date at
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all right now in terms of your desktop
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background if you right-click on your
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desktop and go to personalize you'll
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find a bunch of options for background
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and colors for your lockscreen etc all
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so if your if your background if you'd
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like to have a picture you've got that
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option here you can also choose solid
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colors right I tend to like just having
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a black solid background all right
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myself but also you can use a slideshow
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and whichever option you choose the
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options below will change to give you
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access to the feature that you'd like
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right so you know as it was the case
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with solid color it shows me the bunch
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of colors and in the case of the picture
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we can choose a picture right so they do
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have a bunch of pictures that you can
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switch between right and you can also
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browse and find a picture on your system
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right and then once you've found it you
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can click on it and then just click on
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choose picture I don't actually have any
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pictures on this system at the moment so
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I can't actually complete that action
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there and then when you do choose a
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picture you've got your your fit options
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right so you may want to have the
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default here of stretch right but
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depending on the picture if it's a
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square picture and your screen is a
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widescreen it's gonna stretch out and
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perhaps look very odd right in which
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case you would probably want to better
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to choose center there's also a tile
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option or a fill option and the fill
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option would be you know to fill the
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whole screen but not stretch when is
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something maybe cut off on either at the
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top or the bottom or the left and the
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right but the whole screen will be
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filled with the pictures kind of like
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zooming in until you know the screen is
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filled with the picture right so you can
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experiment and see how each of those
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work with the picture that you've chosen
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and and pick the one that best suits you
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visually right and of course with the
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slideshow you can choose an album the
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default would be pictures of course but
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you can choose any folder fill it up
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with pictures and it will change it on
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the schedule that you suggest it the
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default here is 30 minutes but if you
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like things to move much faster you
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could set it to one minute or you could
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have it just change every day right
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depending what you'd like and you can
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also choose to shuffle the pictures or
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not you know have them come up in a
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random order or otherwise they'll come
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up in the order that they're found in
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the folder right and again you've got
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your your fit options so you can choose
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that as well all right so that's an
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introduction to changing your background
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now you can also tweak the colors on
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your system you can choose light or dark
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modes transparency effects so again this
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is a personal preference area right so
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if you're interested in playing here
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there's kind of tweaked things and and
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you know check things off and choose
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different colors and experiment until
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you find something that's visually
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appealing to you all right now there's a
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lock screen area great so again if you
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want to run the lock screen or activate
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the lock screen you can always click on
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start and go up to the account icon at
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the top left there and she was locked
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right another quick way to do that is to
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hold down your Windows key and press L
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that will also lock your system so
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here you can choose again what kind of
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background you'd like on your on your
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log screen you can choose whether you
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want any apps to run in this case it's
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the the default calendar right show the
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time and the date right and you can have
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other apps show status there and just
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other visual bits here you can have
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Cortana settings for the lockscreen so
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whether you can talk to your computer
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and have it respond well it's on the
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lockscreen and you can change the
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timeout settings here etc right so in
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terms of your screen turning off you can
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set the time here I prefer not to have
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it turn off or go to sleep at all unless
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I tell it to do so but that of course is
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a personal choice right now other
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options for your desktop if we go into
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personalize there are full themes that
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you can choose from right so your
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standard windows there's a windows light
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Windows 10 here there's a flowers theme
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and then there's a get more themes in
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Microsoft Store options so there they're
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the hundreds of themes that you could
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choose from so you know if you like to
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do a seasonal theme you know have a howl
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at holiday Halloween theme for example
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you can always find that kind of thing
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in this store right also you can choose
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fonts and here's where you can actually
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install new fonts on your system by
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dragging and dropping them into this
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area right you can get more fonts in the
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Microsoft Store and you can review what
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fonts you do have with a preview of each
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which is really nice so you can use this
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as a reference when you're doing the
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design in some software etc and there's
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also a start area here and this affects
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start area to the right of the list on
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the start button alright and there's
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just a bunch of options there
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one of the main one would be use start
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full screen right so if you really like
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to focus on having the the startup tiles
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and that's the way you like to work you
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may want to turn that full screen and
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have that much more real estate to work
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with right and then of course there was
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the taskbar settings that we've jumped
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into recently by right-clicking on the
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taskbar and here's a bunch of options
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one of which that many people like to
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use is automatically hide the taskbar in
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desktop mode so if we turn that on then
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the taskbar will hide at the bottom
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while you're doing other things and then
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if you just go down with your cursor and
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touch the bottom of the screen it will
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pop back up I prefer to have it on all
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the time but I can totally see how if
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you're particularly if you're doing
27:31
design work or or you know watching a
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movie or something you might want that
27:37
to disappear right and other things that
27:44
are often critical for people is to set
27:49
your display settings so if you
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right-click on the desktop and click on
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display settings here's where you can
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affect the display resolution and the
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scale and layout sizes here so the
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screen resolution generally speaking
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will be set to the highest level all
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right now I've got I'm at 1280 by 768
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but on this system I can go to this
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crazy number 38 40 by 2400 now if I go
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to that higher resolution everything
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will appear smaller on my screen because
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it's fitting more and more in right if
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you have poor eyesight you may want to
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choose a lower resolution right which
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will make everything bigger on the
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screen but just keep in mind that you
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don't like say here there's 1280 by 720
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of 80 by 768 unless you're forced to
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don't go to anything lower height wise
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than 768 many software or app bits will
29:01
not display properly with a 720 what
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you'll find is that it you'll have a say
29:07
an options box will pop up and the ok
29:10
and apply buttons will be off the screen
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right because they're assuming many
29:15
programmers assume that you have at
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least 768 pixels high on your system so
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try not to go lower than that and
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otherwise just experiment and see which
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resolution works best for you visually
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another thing to keep in mind is that
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different resolutions have different
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aspect ratios right so when you choose a
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resolution you want to be careful and
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and make sure that anything round still
29:46
looks round right so if it's at the
29:48
right aspect ratio for your monitor then
29:51
when you look at a circle a picture of a
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circle for example you it will look like
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the circle it won't be you know
29:58
flattened top to bottom or flattened
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left to right you know so so try to find
30:04
a an appropriate resolution that not
30:09
only gives you the size of icons that
30:10
you want but also maintains the proper
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aspect ratio so that you're not looking
30:15
at everything in a distorted way all
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right so there are other options for
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multiple displays etc I won't jump into
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that for this tutorial but I will also
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mention that there is a nightlight which
30:35
you can turn on and and that will just
30:37
make it easier it'll change your display
30:39
the brightness and tone of your display
30:42
so that when you know bedtime is
30:46
approaching essentially your your eyes
30:49
won't be getting the kind of light or as
30:51
much of the kind of light that will keep
30:54
you awake and you know studies have
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official to have that kind of thing
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turned on so let's close out that area
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and the final thing that I'd like to
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show you is just what to do about
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default programs so you know edge is
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going to be your default browser when
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you buy your Windows 10 you know out of
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the box all right but if you prefer
31:24
using Chrome or Firefox then you can
31:27
click on the start button and type in
31:30
the word default and you can then see
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the default apps option so click on that
31:37
right and then you can go down and under
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web browser you can click there and
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choose whichever web browser you two
31:44
actually prefer to be using all right so
31:47
I've chosen Firefox but of course you
31:50
can choose whatever browser happens to
31:52
be installed on your system that you
31:54
prefer to use right and you can always
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reset to the Microsoft defaults if you
31:59
want to and there's also a way to choose
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default applications by file type so you
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know if you click here for example and
32:09
you were wanting to specify which app it
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opens PDF files so you could you could
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scroll down to the PDF entry
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we're getting closer alright so here we
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go so here's PDF so right now Microsoft
32:40
edge is the option for opening PDFs but
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say it can also the system can also open
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them in Firefox or Google Chrome since
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Firefox is my default browser I'm going
32:52
to choose that as my default PDF viewer
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although what i really suggest and i
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haven't done it yet on this system is
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for pdfs install the free Adobe Acrobat
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Reader and have that as your default for
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PDFs well hopefully this is a decent
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introduction for you to Windows 10
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thanks for watching and if there's
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anything else you would like to see or
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explore just mention that in the
