CHAPTER 2

INTRODUCTION TO THE WINDOWS

10 OPERATING SYSTEM

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 Windows 10 environment
This chapter will discuss:
 Get started using Windows 10
 Personalize your working environment

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 1. Get started using Windows 10

 The first public release of Windows 10, in July

2015, combined popular elements of Windows 7
and Windows 8 with new technology to create a
powerful, easy-to-use operating system.
 Windows 10 can interact with you through
commands that you enter on a keyboard, on
screen, or verbally; from information and
activities on your phone; and (with your
permission) by gleaning information from email
messages.

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 1. Get started using Windows 10

Windows 10 is designed to work not only

on desktop and laptop computers, but also
on smaller mobile devices, such as tablets
and phones. The user interface is clean
and simple so that it can scale gracefully
across device formats. If you’re new to
Windows 10 but familiar with operating
system concepts, many Windows 10
features will be familiar to you.

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 Sign in to Windows

Between computing sessions,

Windows displays one of two
screens: the Lock screen and
the Welcome screen.

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 About the Lock screen

 When your Windows 10 computer first starts or

has been idle for a while, it displays the Lock
screen. As the name indicates, the Lock screen
is a security layer between the world outside the
computer and the information inside the
computer.
 The Lock screen displays a background picture
(or a slideshow of pictures), the time and date,
and network connection information.

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 About the Lock screen

It can also display information from some

of the core Windows 10 apps, including
Alarms & Clock, Calendar, Mail,
Messaging, Phone, Skype, Store,
Weather, and Xbox.
The Lock screen doesn’t display user
account information or specific message
content that you might not want to share
with people who happen to walk past the
computer.
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 About the Lock screen

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 About the Welcome screen

When you dismiss the Lock screen, the

Welcome screen appears. The Welcome
screen displays a list of the user accounts
that are registered on the computer in its
lower-left corner; provides access to the
internet, accessibility, and power settings
in its lower-right corner; and displays the
image and password entry box or Sign In
button for the most recent user in the
center.
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 About the Welcome screen

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To dismiss the Lock screen:
 Click or tap a blank area of the screen.
 Flick the screen upward by using your
finger.
 Press any keyboard key.

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To sign in to Windows 10:
1. Dismiss the Lock screen.
If the computer has multiple user accounts, the
Welcome screen displays a link to each account in
the lower-left corner.
2. If the user account picture and name in the
center of the screen aren’t for the account you
want to sign in to, select the account in the lower-
left corner of the Welcome screen.

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 Explore the desktop and
taskbar

Your starting point after you sign in to

Windows is the desktop. The Windows 10
desktop has a picture or color background
that fills your screen; hosts icons for
system tools such as the Recycle Bin;
might have app shortcuts, folders, and
files stored on it; and has a taskbar that
provides access to the computer content
and functionality.

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 Explore the desktop
 The initial desktop background picture is
configured as part of the Windows installation. If
you upgrade from another version of Windows
and choose to keep your personal settings, your
desktop background won’t change. If you
purchase a computer that has Windows 10
preinstalled on it, it might feature a background
specific to the computer manufacturer (for
example, a Dell computer desktop might display
the Dell logo).

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 Explore the desktop

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 Explore the desktop
The only icon that is typically displayed by
default with a clean installation is the one
for the Recycle Bin, which is a temporary
storage folder for deleted files.
The Recycle Bin is initially located in the
upper-left corner of the desktop (but can
be moved by you), and might appear
empty or full, depending on whether
you’ve deleted files.

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 Explore the desktop

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 Explore the taskbar
 The bar across the bottom of the desktop is the
Windows taskbar. The taskbar provides access
to all the apps, files, settings, and information on
the computer. The fixed tools are on the left and
right ends of the taskbar.

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 Explore the taskbar
 The Windows 10 taskbar looks very similar to
the taskbar in earlier versions of Windows, but
there are some pleasant surprises here.

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 Explore the taskbar
 The Start button, search box, and Task View button are
located at the left end of the taskbar. Each of these has
an important function:
 Selecting the Start button displays the Start menu, the primary
location from which you access apps and settings. The Start
menu has new functionality in Windows 10.
 Right-clicking the Start button displays the Quick Link
menu, your fastest route to many frequently used
computer management tools.
 Entering a term in the search box displays relevant
apps, files, and settings stored on your computer and,
when you have an active internet connection, relevant
online information.

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 Selecting the Task View button displays Task
View (new in Windows 10), which is a large-
thumbnail view of all the open windows and
running apps on your desktop.
 From Task View, you can easily switch among or
close apps and windows. You can also create
virtual desktops, which are secondary instances
of the Windows desktop. When you create one
or more virtual desktops, you can organize the
windows of running apps, files, and folders
across them.
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 The center area of the taskbar, to the right of the Task
View button, can display shortcut buttons and toolbars.
In a default installation of Windows 10, shortcuts to the
Microsoft Edge web browser, File Explorer, the Store
app, and the Mail app are pinned here. You can easily
move or delete these and pin additional items that you
want quick access to.

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 The right end of the taskbar is the notification area. The icons
displayed here represent apps that run on your computer that might
need to notify you of events or system status. You can choose which
app icons appear in the notification area, and set them either to
always display or to display an alert if something happens. You can
also select or right-click notification area icons to interact with the
underlying apps in various ways.

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 By default, the notification area contains the following
items:
 The Show Hidden Icons button displays a pane of
notification icons that are for apps rather than for
Windows functions. You can access app management
commands from these icons.
 The standard Windows notification icons provide access
to network and sound settings, app and operating
system notifications, and other tools.
 The Action Center icon opens the Action Center, which
provides quick access to messages, notifications, and
settings.

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To display or hide the Task View of all
active apps and desktops:
 On the taskbar, to the right of the search box,
select the Task View button.
 Press Win+Tab.
 On a touchscreen device, swipe in from the
left edge of the screen.

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To manage windows in Task View:
 To close a file or app, point to the thumbnail,
and then select the Close button (the X) in
the upper-right corner.

 To switch to a specific window, select the

window thumbnail (not the window title).

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To minimize all open windows:
 To minimize the windows, select the Show
Desktop button or press Win+D. Use the
same technique to restore the minimized
windows.
 To temporarily minimize the windows, point to
the Show Desktop button. (This is called
“peeking” at the desktop.)

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 Explore the Start menu

The Windows 10 Start menu provides

access to computer-management
commands, your account folders, the apps
installed on your computer, and any apps,
folders, files, websites, or other things you
want to pin to it. The Start menu has
commands in three areas:

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  The left side of the Start menu displays icons
for Power, Settings, and Account information
by default, and you can add other links to it.
The Start menu is collapsed by default to
display only the icons.

 The app list displays an alphabetical list of all

the apps that are installed on your computer.
Recently installed apps appear at the top of
the menu.

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  The right side of the Start menu displays
groups of app tiles that the computer
manufacturer pinned there for you or you
choose to pin there. Some apps support “Live
Tiles” that display current information such as
weather, stock prices, or news.

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To display the Start menu (default
configuration):
 Select the Start button.
 Press the Windows logo key.
 Press Ctrl+Esc.
To display user account controls
 On the left side of the Start menu, select your
user account button.

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To switch to another user account:
 On the left side of the Start menu, select your
user account button, and then select the
account you want to switch to.
 On the Welcome screen, do one of the
following:
• If the account has a password, enter the password
in the box below the account name, and then press
Enter or select Submit.
• If the account doesn’t have a password, select
Sign in below the account name.

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 Explore Windows settings
 In its default configuration, the Settings window
displays iconic representations of the 13
categories of settings that are present in the Fall
2017 Creators Update of Windows 10.

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Control Panel still exists and you can
configure many of the less frequently used
settings there.

The standard Control Panel configuration

displays category names followed by tasks
you can perform in the categories.

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To open the Settings window

 On the left side of the Start menu, select the

Settings icon.
 Press Win+I.
 Near the right end of the taskbar, select the
Action Center icon and then, in the Quick
Actions section at the bottom of the Action
Center, select All settings.

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To display a category of settings
 In the Settings window, select the category
you want to display.
To display settings for a specific
feature
 From the Settings window, display the
category page.
 On the category page, select the feature you
want to configure.

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 End a computing session

If you’re going to stop working with your

computer for any length of time, you can
use one of these four options to leave the
Windows session:
 Lock the computer This leaves your
Windows computing session active, saves the
state of any running apps and open files, and
displays the Lock screen. Signing in to
Windows resumes your computing session.

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 Sign out of Windows This exits any running apps, ends
your Windows computing session, and displays the Lock
screen. Signing in to Windows starts a new computing
session.
 Put the computer to sleep This leaves your Windows
computing session active, saves the state of any running
apps and open files, turns off the monitor, and puts the
computer into a power-saving mode. When you wake the
computer up, the monitor turns on, the Lock screen
appears, and signing in to Windows resumes your
computing session.
 Shut down the computer This signs all active users out of
Windows, shuts down the computer processes in an
orderly fashion, and turns off the computer.
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You can access these processes from
your account button and the Power button
on the Start menu and full-size Start
screen. The Sign Out, Sleep, and Shut
Down processes are also available from
the Quick Link menu.

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To lock the computer
 Display the Start menu. On the left side of the
Start menu, select your user account button,
and then select Lock.
 Press Win+L.

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To sign out of Windows
1. Do either of the following:
 Display the Start menu, select your user
account button, and then select Sign out.
 Right-click the Start button to display the
Quick Link menu, select Shut down or sign
out, and then select Sign out.
2. Respond if Windows asks whether to save
unsaved changes to specific files or apps.

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To put the computer to sleep
From within an active computing session,
do either of the following:
 On the left side of the Start menu, select the
Power button, and then select Sleep.
 On the Quick Link menu, select Shut down
or sign out, and then select Sleep.
 In the lower-right corner of the Welcome
screen, select the Power button, and then
select Sleep.
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To wake up a computer from sleep
Wake methods might vary depending on
the computer. The following methods are
common:
 Press and release the computer’s power
button.
 Press any keyboard key.
 Wiggle the mouse.

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 To shut down the computer

From within an active computing session,

do either of the following:
 On the left side of the Start menu, select the
Power button, and then select Shut down.
 On the Quick Link menu, select Shut down
or sign out, and then select Shut down.
In the lower-right corner of the Welcome
screen, select the Power button, and then
select Shut down.

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 To restart the computer

From within an active computing session,

do either of the following:
 On the left side of the Start menu, select the
Power button, and then select Restart.
 On the Quick Link menu, select Shut down
or sign out, and then select Restart.
In the lower-right corner of the Welcome
screen, select the Power button, and then
select Restart.

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