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Index
Windows 8: The Missing Manual The Missing Credits
About the Author About the Creative Team Acknowledgments The Missing Manual Series
For Windows For the Mac Electronics Web Technologies Life
Introduction
The Editions of Windows 8—and Windows RT About This Book
System Requirements for Your Brain About the Outline About→These→Arrows
The Very Basics
Windows Defined The Right Mouse Button is King Wizards = Interviews There’s More Than One Way to Do Everything You Can Use the Keyboard for Everything The Start Screen is Fastest About Shift-Clicking You Could Spend a Lifetime Changing Properties Every Piece of Hardware Requires Software It’s Not Meant to Be Overwhelming About MissingManuals.com
One. TileWorld
1. The Start Screen
The Lock Screen The Accounts Screen The Login Screen The Start Screen
It Displays Both Kinds of Apps It Scrolls Horizontally It’s a Launcher The Rest of the Apps Type-Searching Returning to the Start Screen
Corners and Swipes
The Charms Bar Last Open Program The App Bar
Shutting Down
The Sleep/Shut Down/Restart Commands
Sleep Restart Shut down
The Account Menu
Sign out [Switch user] Lock
Three Triggers for Sleep/Shut Down—and How to Change Them
2. Customizing the Lock, Login & Start Screens
Adding or Removing App Tiles
Adding App Tiles to the Start Screen
Pinning from the All Apps list Pinning from Search Pinning desktop icons
Unpinning Tiles Moving Tiles Around
Grouping Tiles
Creating a New Group Naming and Moving Groups
Naming a tile group Moving tile groups Zooming back in
More Ways to Tweak the Start Screen
Change the Wallpaper and Color Scheme Resizing Individual Tiles The Silence of the Tiles Administrative Tools
Notifications
Customizing the Notifications
Customizing the Lock Screen
Lock-Screen Wallpaper Lock Screen Apps Detailed Status Eliminating the Lock Screen
Customizing the Login Process
Creating a Picture Password The Four-Digit Passcode Eliminating the Password Requirement
3. How TileWorld Works
The Windows Store
Navigating the Store
Working with TileWorld Apps
Close a TileWorld App Display Side-by-Side Apps
Uninstalling a TileWorld App The Two Task Switchers
The Traditional Task Switcher (Shows All Apps) The New Task Switcher (TileWorld Apps Only)
The Onscreen Keyboard Handwriting Recognition
Handwriting Anywhere Training Windows to Know Your Handwriting
Fixing mistakes
The File Picker
Navigating the File Picker Choosing Files
Previewing a file
Search
Starting the Search Search for Apps, Settings, and Files Searching Within Apps
Text: Selecting, Copying, Pasting
With Mouse and Keyboard With Your Finger
The TileWorld Spelling Checker Help in TileWorld The TileWorld Apps Missing Manual
4. TileWorld’s Starter Apps
Bing Calendar
Working with Views Making an Appointment Editing Events Rescheduling Events Deleting Events Subscribing to Calendars (Accounts) Hiding Accounts
Camera Desktop Finance Games Internet Explorer
The Address Bar Scrolling Touchscreen Zooming Tabbed Browsing Stop, Reload Back, Forward Flip Ahead Sharing Bookmarks (Favorites)—and Pinning to the Start Page
Favorites (Bookmarks) Pin to Start The History list
Saving Graphics Searching the Web How the Two IEs are Connected
Mail
The POP-Account Problem Set Up Your Account Editing or Deleting an Account Downloading Mail A Mail Tour What to Do with a Message Filing or Deleting Batches of Messages Searching Writing Messages
Maps
Meet Maps Searching the Maps Finding Friends and Businesses Directions
Messaging
The App Bar Settings
Music
My Music Now Playing All Music, Top Music Search The Artist Screen Playlists
Creating playlists Editing, rearranging, and deleting playlists
Settings
News People
Adding Addresses
Importing from Gmail, Facebook, or another Internet service Creating address cards manually Editing an address Adding pictures
Favorites and Start Screen Tiles
Designating favorites Pinning someone to Start
Finding Someone The Person Screen
Contact What’s new Photos
Hiding an Account (Filtering) Sharing a Contact Posting
Photos
Your Pictures Folder Setting Up Online Accounts Slurping in Photos from a Camera Playing with Photos Zooming In, Zooming Out Viewing by Date Slapping a Photo onto the Lock Screen, Photos Tile, or Photos Screen Selecting and Sharing Photos
Selecting photos Sharing selected photos
Printing Pictures
SkyDrive
Navigating the SkyDrive The App Bar Sharing a File
Sports Store Travel Video Weather
5. TileWorld Settings
The Six Charms-Panel Settings Personalize Users Notifications Search Share General Privacy Devices Wireless Ease of Access Sync Your Settings Homegroup Windows Update
Two. The Windows Desktop
6. File Explorer, Folders & the Taskbar
The Windows Desktop Restoring the Start Menu Desktop Windows: File Explorer Universal Window Controls
Sizing, Moving, and Closing Windows
Maximized Minimized Restored
Moving a Window Closing a Window Layering Windows
Window Tricks
The Show Desktop Button
The Ribbon
File Tab Home Tab Share Tab View Tab Library Tools/Manage Tab Music Tools/Play Tab Picture Tools/Manage Tab Tabucopia
Explorer Window Controls
Address Bar
Components of the address bar What to type into the address bar
Optional Window Panes
Preview Pane Details Pane Navigation Pane
Favorite Links list Libraries Homegroup Computer Network Flippy triangles
Libraries
Working with Library Contents Adding a Folder to an Existing Library
The fine print
Removing a Folder from a Library Creating a New Library
Tags, Metadata, and Properties
Properties
Icon and List Views
Immortalizing Your Tweaks
Sorting, Grouping, and Filtering
Sorting Files
Sorting in Details view Sorting using the shortcut menu
Grouping Filtering Searching in an Explorer Window
The “Folder Options” Options
General Tab View Tab
Taskbar 2.0
Taskbar as App Switcher Handy Window Miniatures Full-Size Peeking Button Groups The Taskbar as App Launcher
Jump Lists
Pinning Deleting One Item Jump List Caveats Jump List Settings The Notification Area (System Tray)
Revealing the hidden status icons Reinstating the hidden icons Revealing all system-tray icons
Three Ways to Get the Taskbar Out of Your Hair
Auto-Hiding the Taskbar Changing the Taskbar’s Size Moving the Taskbar to the Sides of the Screen
Taskbar Toolbars
Address Toolbar Links Toolbar Touch Keyboard Desktop Toolbar Redesigning Your Toolbars Build Your Own Toolbars
The Run Command
Open a Program Open Any Program or Document Open a Drive Window Open a Folder Window Connect to a Web Page
The Secret Utilities Menu
7. Searching & Organizing Your Files
Desktop Search
Results-Listing Tips
The Search Index Where Windows Looks
Adding New Places to the Index
Customizing Search
Folder Options Indexing Options
Index Settings Tab File Types Tab
Saved Searches The Folders of Windows 8
What’s in the Local Disk (C:) Window
PerfLogs Program Files Program Files (x86) Users Windows
Your Personal Folder
Life with Icons
Renaming Your Icons Icon Properties
Computer (System Properties) Disks Data files Folders Program files
Changing Your Icons’ Icons
Standard Windows icons Folder or shortcut icons
Selecting Icons
Use the Mouse Use the Keyboard Checkbox Selection Eliminating Double-Clicks
Copying and Moving Folders and Files
Copying by Dragging Icons
The right-mouse-button trick Dragging icons into the Navigation pane
Copying or Moving Files with the Ribbon Copying with Copy and Paste
The Recycle Bin
Making the Recycle Bin Less Naggy Restoring Deleted Files and Folders Emptying the Recycle Bin
Auto-emptying the Recycle Bin
Shortcut Icons
Creating and Deleting Shortcuts Unveiling a Shortcut’s True Identity Shortcut Keyboard Triggers
Compressing Files and Folders
NTFS Compression
Compressing files, folders, or disks
Zipped Folders
Creating zipped folders Working with zipped folders
Burning CDs and DVDs from the Desktop
A Tale of Two Formats Burning, Step by Step
The final steps: Mastered (ISO) format The final steps: Live File System (UDF) format
Final Notes
ISO Disk Images
8. Redesigning Your Desktop World
Turning Off the New Look
Turning Off Window Snapping and Shaking Turning Off the Inch-Tall Taskbar Turn Off All Those Glitzy Animations Bring Back the Start Menu
A Gallery of Themes
Basic and High-Contrast Themes
Desktop Background (Wallpaper)
Auto–Picture Changing Making the Pictures Fit Other Ways to Choose Desktop Photos
Color Sounds Screen Savers
Choosing a Screen Saver
Desktop Icons Mouse Makeover
Pointer Options
Pointer Options
Preserving Your Tweaks for Posterity Monitor Settings
Four Ways to Enlarge the Screen
Change the resolution Enlarge just the type and graphics Enlarge specific window elements The Magnifier
Colors
Multiple Monitors
Quick and Simple: The Charms Bar Flexibility and Options: The Screen Resolution Panel Advanced Settings Life with Eight Corners Taskbar Complications
9. Help at the Desktop
Navigating the Help System
Search the Help Pages Drilling Down
Remote Assistance
Remote Assistance: Rest Assured Starting Up Remote Assistance: If You’re Both on Windows 7 or 8
Instructions for the novice Instructions for the expert
Starting Up Remote Assistance: If You’re Not Both on Windows 7/8
Instructions for the novice Instructions for the expert
Once You’re Connected
Getting Help from Microsoft
Microsoft Customer Support
10. Programs & Documents
Opening Desktop Programs Exiting Desktop Programs When Programs Die: The Task Manager
Heat Map The Other Tabs
Saving Documents
The Save Dialog Box Saving into Your Documents Folder Saving into Other Folders Navigating the List by Keyboard The File Format Drop-Down Menu
Closing Documents The Open Dialog Box Moving Data Between Documents
Cut, Copy, and Paste Drag-and-Drop Export/Import
Speech Recognition
Take the Tutorial Controlling Windows Speech Recognition Controlling Windows and Its Programs
Show numbers
Controlling Dictation
Correcting errors More commands Speech recognition tips
Filename Extensions and File Associations
Displaying Filename Extensions Hooking Up an Unknown File Type Hooking Up a File Extension to a Different Program
Method 1: Start with the document Method 2: Start with the program Method 3: Start with the file type
Installing Desktop Software
The Preinstallation Checklist Installing Software from a Disc Installing Downloaded Software Installing Windows Components
Uninstalling Software
When Uninstalling Goes Wrong
Program Compatibility Modes
Warning When You Upgrade to Windows 8 Warning Right When You Install an Older App Compatibility Mode
Compatibility mode: the wizardy way Compatibility mode: the manual way
11. The Desktop’s Starter Programs
Windows Essentials Calculator Character Map Command Prompt Computer Control Panel Default Programs File Explorer Help and Support Magnifier Math Input Panel Narrator
Touchscreen Basics Keyboard Basics Settings
General tab Voice tab Commands tab
Notepad
Notepad Basics About Word Wrap
Onscreen Keyboard Paint Remote Desktop Connection Run Snipping Tool Sound Recorder
Recording a New Sound What to Do with Sounds
Steps Recorder Sticky Notes
Creating Notes Formatting Notes Deleting Notes
Task Manager Windows Defender Windows Easy Transfer Windows Easy Transfer Reports Windows Fax and Scan Windows Journal
Handwriting Sketches Exporting
Windows Live Mail Windows Live Messenger Windows Live Writer Windows Media Player Windows PowerShell Windows Speech Recognition WordPad
Using WordPad
XPS Viewer
12. The Control Panel
Many Roads to Control Panel
Opening the Control Panel Itself Category View Classic View Control Panel via Search
The Control Panel, Applet by Applet
Action Center Add Features to Windows 8 Administrative Tools AutoPlay BitLocker Drive Encryption Color Management Credential Manager Date and Time Default Programs Device Manager Devices and Printers Display Ease of Access Center Family Safety File History Folder Options Fonts Homegroup Indexing Options Internet Options Keyboard Language Location Settings Mouse
Buttons tab Pointers tab Pointers Options tab Wheel tab Hardware tab
Network and Sharing Center Notification Area Icons Performance Information and Tools Personalization Phone and Modem Power Options
Creating your own plan
Programs and Features Recovery Region
Formats tab Location tab Administrative
RemoteApp and Desktop Connections Sound
Playback and Recording tabs Sounds tab Communications tab
Speech Recognition Storage Spaces Sync Center System Taskbar Troubleshooting User Accounts Windows 7 File Recovery Windows Defender Windows Firewall Windows Mobility Center Windows Update
Three. Windows Online
13. Hooking Up to the Internet
Connecting to a WiFi Network
When You Can’t Get On Commercial Hotspots Memorized Hotspots
Wired Connections
Automatic Configuration Manual Configuration
Tethering and Cellular Modems Dial-Up Connections Connection Management
14. Security & Privacy
Windows Defender
Real-Time Protection On-Demand Scanning When Defender Strikes
Action Center Windows Firewall
How It Works Firewall Settings Punching Through the Firewall Advanced Firewall
Windows SmartScreen
Phine-Tuning the Philter SmartScreen Web Settings SmartScreen App Settings
Privacy and Cookies
The Terminology of Cookies Cookie Options
History: Erasing Your Tracks The Pop-Up Blocker
Overriding the Pop-up Block
InPrivate Browsing Internet Security Zones
Security Levels Classifying Sites by Hand
Do Not Track Hotspot Security Protect Your Home Wireless Network Family Safety (Parental Controls)
Turn on Family Safety On/Off Switches Turning on Restrictions Web Filtering Time Limits Windows Store and Game Restrictions
15. Internet Explorer 10
IE10 Desktop: The Grand Tour
A Note About the Menu Bar Links and Underlines
The Address/Search Bar
Searching the Web Adding Google Entering an Address
Topside doodads
Window Controls
Tabbed Browsing
Shortcut-O-Rama Tab Settings Quick Tabs (Thumbnails)
Favorites (Bookmarks)
The Favorites Toolbar
History List RSS: The Missing Manual
Viewing an RSS Feed
Tips for Better Surfing
Full-Screen Browsing Picking a Home Page Bigger Text, Smaller Text Zooming In and Out Online Photos Saving Pages Sending Pages Accelerators
How to use an accelerator Turning off accelerators Adding more accelerators
Printing Pages Turn Off Animations Internet Options
The Keyboard Shortcut Master List
16. Windows Live Mail
Setting Up Windows Live Mail Checking Email
Mail Folders in Windows Live Mail
Composing and Sending Messages
Inserting Links, Lines, or Smileys Attaching Files or Photos
Reading Email
When Pictures are Part of the Message
Quick Views, Custom Views (Filters)
Quick Views Custom Views
How to Process a Message
Deleting Messages Replying to Messages Forwarding Messages Printing Messages Filing Messages Flagging Messages Opening Attachments Message Rules
Setting up message rules Two sneaky message-rules tricks
Junk Email
Junk E-Mail Safety Options When the Junk Filter Goes Wrong
The World of Mail Settings
General Tab Read Tab Receipts Tab Send Tab Compose Tab Signatures Tab Spelling Tab Connection Tab Advanced Tab
The Contacts List Mail’s Calendar
Working with Views Making an Appointment What to Do with an Appointment
Editing events Lengthening or shortening events Rescheduling events Printing events Deleting events
The “Calendar” Category Concept Syncing Calendars with Windows Live Publishing Calendars
RSS Feeds Newsgroups
Subscribing to a Newsgroup Reading Messages Replying, Composing, and Forwarding Messages
Four. Pictures & Music
17. Windows Photo Gallery
Photo Gallery: The Application Getting Pictures into Photo Gallery
Photos from a Digital Camera Photos from a USB Card Reader The File Format Factor
Movies RAW files
The Post-Dump Slideshow
Slideshow themes
Slideshow themes Sharing a slideshow
The Digital Shoebox
The Bigger Picture The Navigation Tree Working with Your Photos Category Groupings Selecting Photos Deleting Photos Duplicating a Photo The Info Pane
Titles Dates Ratings, flags
People, Tags, Geotags, Captions, Ratings, and Flags
People Tags
Tagging one person at a time Batch tagging Using people tags
Descriptive Tags
Applying tags Editing or removing tags Using tags
Geotags Captions Ratings Flags
Searching for Photos Editing Your Shots
Ways to Zoom Ten Levels of Undo Rotate Auto Adjust Cropping Red Eye Retouch Straighten Noise Reduction Automatic Color and Exposure Adjustments Manual Adjustments
Exposure Color balance Straighten photo, Adjust detail
Reverting to the Original
Finding Your Audience
Make Prints Panorama Photo Fuse Auto Collage Slideshows Email Blog Post Movie Publish to Facebook, YouTube… Burn to a Disc Build a Photo Screen Saver
18. Windows Media Player
The Lay of the Land Importing Music Files Music Playback
Fun with Media Player Playing Music CDs Ripping CDs to Your Hard Drive
Playlists Burning Your Own CDs
Copying to a Portable Player or Windows Phone
Automatic sync Manual sync
Sharing Music on the Network
Browse One Another’s Collections—Homegroup Method Browse One Another’s Collections—Manual Method Play To Play over the Internet
Pictures and Videos
Five. Hardware & Peripherals
19. Printing, Fonts & Faxing
Installing a Printer
USB Printers Network Printers Ancient Printers The Devices and Printers Window
Printing
Printing from TileWorld Apps Printing from Desktop Programs Printing from the Desktop
Controlling Printouts Fancy Printer Tricks
Sharing a Printer Limiting Hours of Access Add a Separator Page
Printer Troubleshooting Fonts
Managing Your Fonts
Faxing
Sending a Fax from Any Program Faxing Using Windows Fax and Scan Receiving Faxes
Scanning Documents
20. Hardware & Drivers
External Gadgets
USB Jacks Other Jacks Connecting New Gadgets
Device Stage Installing Cards in Expansion Slots Troubleshooting Newly Installed Gear Driver Signing The Device Manager
The Curse of the Yellow ! Badge
Duplicate devices Resolving resource conflicts
Turning Components Off Updating Drivers Roll Back Driver
Six. PC Health
21. Maintenance, Speed Tweaks & Troubleshooting
The Action Center Disk Cleanup Disk Defragmenter
Defragging Settings
Hard Drive Checkups
The Three Action-Center Messages Manual Checks
Disk Management
Change a Drive Letter Partition a New Drive
Creating a partition
Turn a Drive into a Folder
Task Scheduler
Adding a Task Editing Scheduled Tasks
Three Speed Tricks
SuperFetch ReadyBoost Shutting Off Bells and Whistles
Windows Update
Installing Updates
Windows Update, Desktop Edition Windows Update, TileWorld Edition
Windows Update Settings Beyond the Basics Removing Updates
Reset and Refresh
Refreshing Your PC Resetting Your PC
Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) Troubleshooting Tools
Automatic Error Reporting Automatic Solution Reporting The Diary of Windows Crashes Reliability Monitor
Startup Items Revealed
22. Backups & File History
Windows Backup and Restore
Windows Backup and Restore
System Images
Make the Image Restore the Image
System Restore
About Restore Points The System Protection Dialog Box Creating a Manual Restore Point Performing a System Restore Turning System Restore Off
File History
Set Up File History Recovering Files
Browsing for the file Ribbon rewinding Searching for the file
23. The Disk Chapter
Storage Spaces Dynamic Disks Compressing Files and Folders
NTFS Compression
Compressing files, folders, or disks
Zipped Folders
Creating zipped folders Working with zipped folders
Encrypting Files and Folders
Using EFS EFS Rules
BitLocker Drive Encryption
BitLocker for a Hard Drive BitLocker to Go BitLocker Options
Seven. The Windows Network
24. Accounts (and Logging On)
Local Accounts vs. Microsoft Accounts Accounts Central
Administrator vs. Standard Accounts
Adding an Account Editing an Account
Settings You Change in PC Settings Settings You Change Online Settings You Change in Control Panel
The Forgotten Password Disk Deleting User Accounts Disabling Accounts The Guest Account Authenticate Yourself: User Account Control Local Users and Groups
Opening the Console Creating a New Account Groups
Creating a group Built-in groups
Modifying Users and Groups
Fast User Switching Logging On
You Get the Accounts Screen You Zoom Straight to the Desktop You Get the “Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to Begin” Message
Profiles
The Public Profile
Whose software is it, anyway?
The Default User Profile NTFS Permissions: Protecting Your Stuff Setting Up NTFS Permissions
Step 1: Specify the person Step 2: Specify the permissions
Groups and Permissions When Permissions Collide
25. Setting Up a Small Network
Kinds of Networks
Ethernet
Network hookups
Wireless Networks (WiFi or 802.11) Other Kinds of Networks
Phone line networks Power outlet networks
Sharing an Internet Connection
Get a Broadband Router Use Internet Connection Sharing
Set up the sharing PC Set up the other PCs
Managing Your Network
The Charms Bar
The Network and Sharing Center
Change adapter settings
Change adapter settings Change advanced sharing settings
Links in the Main Window
Set up a new connection or network Troubleshoot problems
26. Corporate Networks
The Domain
The Domain Concept Active Directory Domain Security
Four Ways Life Is Different on a Domain
Logging On Browsing the Domain Searching the Domain
Custom Searches
Assigning Permissions to Domain Members
27. Sharing Files on the Network
Three Ways to Share Files Homegroups
Creating a Homegroup in TileWorld Creating a Homegroup at the Desktop How to Use Your Homegroup How to Share More Files and Folders Leaving a Homegroup Editing the Shared Homegroup Libraries
Sharing the Public Folders Sharing Any Folder
Advanced Folder Sharing—and Disk Sharing Notes on File Sharing Hiding Folders
Accessing Shared Folders
Extra Credit: Universal Naming Convention (UNC)
Mapping Shares to Drive Letters Sharing a DVD Drive
On the PC with the Drive On the Tablet or Thin Laptop
28. The Road Warrior’s Handbook
Windows Mobility Center Offline Files and Sync Center
Turn on the Feature Preparing to Leave the Network Working Offline Reconnecting to the Network The Sync Center
Windows to Go Dialing In from the Road Virtual Private Networking
Setting Up Your Laptop Connecting to the VPN Changing Your VPN Settings
Remote Desktop
Setting Up the Host Machine Making the Connection Keyboard Shortcuts for the Hopelessly Confused Disconnecting Fine-Tuning Remote Desktop Connections
Eight. Appendixes
A. Installing Windows 8
Before You Begin
Hardware Requirements The Upgrade Advisor What You Have to Lose Decision 1: DVD or Download Decision 2: Upgrade or System Builder Decision 3: Directly or from External Disk Decision 4: Upgrade vs. Clean Install Decision 5: Dual Booting
Installing Windows 8
Preparing for the Installation The Upgrade Installation
Phase 1: Run the installer Phase 2: Establish settings Phase 3: Create your account
Performing a Clean Install (or Dual-Boot Install)
Jobs Number 1, 2, 3… Windows Easy Transfer
Phase 1: Backing Up the Files Phase 2: Restoring the Files
B. Fun with the Registry
Meet Regedit
The Big Five Categories Keys and Values Backing Up Key Values
Regedit Examples
Encrypt/Decrypt from the Shortcut Menu A Really, Really Clean Desktop Slow Down the Animations
C. Where’d It Go? D. Master List of Gestures & Keyboard Shortcuts
TileWorld gestures
TileWorld gestures
TileWorld gestures TileWorld keystrokes TileWorld mouse shortcuts File Explorer keyboard shortcuts General keyboard shortcuts Window and program-switching keyboard shortcuts -Key shortcuts Taskbar keyboard shortcuts Ease of Access keyboard shortcuts Dialog box keyboard shortcuts Magnifier keyboard shortcuts Remote Desktop Connection keyboard shortcuts
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