Windows 10 – Complete guide book to use your PC more efficiently

By Alex Ward

Welcome to Windows 10 - most powerful operating system that Microsoft has ever made. This Complete guide book to use your PC more efficiently has been written so you can read it from the beginning to learn about Windows 10 and then improve your computer skills and knowledge as you learn to master your PC. With the bookmark, you can jump to wherever you prefer for performing tasks. You’ll also find useful description, full-color Illustrations that support the book content.
Below, you'll find near 100 Windows 10 tips and tutorials, split into 10 categories and designed to help you learn the basics, disable common annoyances, save storage, speed up your PC, or be more productive:
• Getting started with windows 10
• Customize your Taskbar
• Customize your Desktop
• Customize the Start Menu
• Windows 10 application
• Personalize your PC
• Optimize your PC for better performance
• Protect your PC
• Backup & Restore your Windows 10 PC
• Advanced Tips and tricks for Windows 10

Buy now to explore the world of Windows 10

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sharon Barrow
• Release date: Mar 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9791220277433

Book preview

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Contents

Getting started with windows 10

Customize your Taskbar

Customize your Desktop

Customize the Start Menu

Windows 10 application

Personalize your PC

Optimize your PC for better performance

Protect your PC

Backup & Restore your Windows 10 PC

Advanced Tips and tricks for Windows 10

Getting started with windows 10

How to install windows 10 update version 20H2 (windows 10 2009)

Step 1. Open Settings by press logo key  + I.

Step 2. Click on Update & Security.



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Step 3. Click on Windows Update (1).

Step 4. Click on the Check for updates (2) button.

Step 5. Click the Download and install (3) button in Feature Update to Windows 10 version 20H2.



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Step 6. Click the Restart Now button after downloading the update to your device.



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Once the above steps are done, the new version will be downloaded and installed automatically.

If you find that Windows Update doesn’t show the update, your computer probably blocked by Microsoft because the new version is still incompatible with your hardware or software configuration.

TOP new features and changes on Windows 10 VERSION 20H2 (Windows 10 2009)

The updated Windows 10 October 2020 Update is only a minor update, but that does not mean there are not new things worth noting. Here are the top new features and changes in Microsoft 's latest version of Windows 10, currently supported devices running version 1903 or higher.

Access Android apps from your Samsung phone right from your PC

Microsoft is constantly adding new features to the Your Phone app, with many designed specifically for certain Samsung devices. If you have one of these phones, you can use the Android apps installed on your phone right from your Windows 10 PC. They will still be on your phone, but you can launch them, view and interact with them through your Windows 10 PC.

This new feature will be introduced in this chapter of the book.

The new Start Menu is beautiful and cleaner

With this update, Microsoft has improved the Start Menu in the most powerful way ever with Windows 10.

Now, the Start Menu is more modern and beautiful with the elimination of colored squares surrounding application icons, along with that the application icons have been changed to the Fluent Design language that looks modern and suits the overall Windows 10 interface a lot better, compared to the icons with only rough and boring lines. 



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New Start Menu interface

In addition, Microsoft also redesigned notifications on the Action Center with the addition of app icons and an X button on the corner of notifications so that users can easily imagine which app is notifications from and easily turn them off.



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New Action Center interface

New Microsoft Edge browser

If updating to this October 2020 version, Edge Chromium will be pre-installed without you having to do anything more. New Edge is much better than the old Edge, the use of chromium core will help Edge get new features faster as well as compatibility with new website formats. 

In this release, the new Edge adds two new features including Collections