Windows Help and Advice - USA (2019-06)

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Navigate your PC

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e’ve seen how the

desktop can provide you

with a means of pinning

favourite programs and

files within easy reach,

but it’s only the start of

your journey into navigating Windows

10. Let’s start with File Explorer – the
    tool you use to browse and manage
    your computer’s contents. You’ll see its
    folder icon on the Taskbar, so click this
    and it’ll open to one of two views: ‘Quick
    access’ or This PC – you can change the
    default view by switching to the View
    tab on File Explorer’s ribbons, clicking
    the Options button and making your
    choice from the ‘Open File Explorer
    to’drop-downmenu.
    ‘Quickaccess’isa specialfolderthat
    containsshortcutstobothrecently
    openedfilesandfoldersyoufrequently
    open.It’salsopossibleto‘pin’favourite
    folderstothe‘Quickaccess’menuthat
    appearsintheNavigationpaneonthe
    leftoftheFileExplorerwindow– the
    quickestwaytodothisissimplytodrag
    a folderintothe‘Quickaccess’listwhere
    youwantit tositandreleasethemouse
    button(youcanlaterremovethefolder
    fromthislistbyright-clickingit and
    choosing‘UnpinfromQuickaccess’).
    Theleft-handpanealsohasshortcuts
    toOneDrive,ThisPC(alistofallyour
    userfoldersaswellasthedrives
    attachedtoyourPC),selectedexternal
    drivesandyourNetwork.Thereusedto
    bea Homegroupentryheretoo– only

onlyit disappearedintheSpring

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Homegroupsthemselves.

Windows 10 introduceslotsofhandy

newfeaturesinFileExplorerthatwill

benewtoyouif you’removingfrom

Windows7:switchtotheViewtabon

theRibbonandtick‘Itemcheckboxes’if

youfrequentlyneedtoselectmultiple

filesina folder– thisenablesyouto

simplytickthemtodoso.

AlsokeepaneyeontheRibbonwhen

selectingindividualfilesofa specific

type– forexample,selecta photoanda

context-sensitivePictureToolsoption

willappear.Clickthistoreveal

additionaloptionsrelevanttophotos,

suchasrotatingimagesorviewingthe

folder’scontentsasa slideshow.

Tweak PC settings

The ‘Quick access’ folder puts recent and

personally selected folders within easy reach.

Cortana enables

you to search your

PC from the Taskbar

with a single click.

Settings is your go-to place

for tweaking PC settings, but

the Control Panel continues

to hang on – for now.

When it comes to changing

system settings – from the

apps you’ve installed, to the

picture to use for your desktop

background – you’ll need the

Settings tool, accessible from

the Start menu by clicking its

button. Settings is currently

divided into 13 discrete

sections – click one and you’ll

see a series of sub-menus on

the left, each of which contain

subsets of options.

Settings is Windows 10’s

replacement for the Control

Panel. When Windows 10 was

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much a hybrid of both Settings

and Control Panel, but with

each successive feature update

more settings have made their

way from the Control Panel

into Settings. For example,

from the Spring Creators

Update, you’ll manage your

fonts from within Settings

rather than being redirected

to the Control Panel.

Thankfully, Settings has its

own search tool to help you

quickly locate the tweak you

want to perform, while some

shortcuts – and search results

such as Storage Spaces – still

point to the equivalent Control

Panel applet. However, if you’d

rather explore the Control

Panel directly, press [Win] + [R],

type FRQWURO and press [Enter]

to force it to appear.