Windows 10 Settings User Interface Explained for Beginners

Welcome to windows 10 tutorials to all beginners and intermediate users. This is the 11^th post of windows 10 tutorial, explains about the new windows 10 setting user interfaces. It also include tutorial of how to access setting option and each options applications are also explained in this tutorials post.

Windows 10 Settings

Do you know the ControlPanel of windows 7/8/8.1? Windows 10setting UI is also same as the controlpanel in the previous operating systems of windows, but not full options of controlpanel are involved. It is trusted windows store app which will get to your computer, via windows 10 update installation. Control panel is desktop app which is still their having full power of system security and apps control (uninstall).

Windows 10 setting is really useful in terms of quick accessing of different options in one UI. That means, you access every option inside the setting like browsing on the web. Each options are clearly arranged and abilities of each one are mentioned nicely.

How to Access Windows 10 Settings UI

Using Start Menu

Click on startmenu and select The “Settings” from it, which shown below.

Using My Computer or This PC

You can find the “This PC” icon (which is computer pictured icon); double click on it and it will open the This PC user interface, from that click on the “Open Settings”.

What is inside Settings?

The windows 10 settings app contained several options like System, Devices, Personalization, Accounts, Time and Languages, Internet and Network, Ease of access, privacy, update and security. Here I will only share the what are the uses of these settings options. On later posts, I will explain each one of the options tutorials in the Windows 10 Tutorials for beginners series.

Windows 10 Settings: System

The “System” is the first option in the settings which mainly controls the display settings of your pc, notifications setup, power management, storage, apps and features controls etc. You can also enable the multitasking and tablet modes from the system settings.

Windows 10 Settings: Devices

Devices settings are completely related to the connected devices, Bluetooth and media control settings. Here you can control the connected devices via device manager, also setup the printers and scanners etc. Bluetooth option also access from these UI and pairing jobs are easily done with it.

Windows 10 Settings: Network & Internet

Network and internet option contains all related with internet and network control like Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Data usage, VPN, Dial-UP and proxy. Airplane mode is also activated from this UI.

Windows 10 Settings: Personalization

The personalization settings is a desktop customization option, in which you can change background wallpapers, colors, Windows 10 themes, lock screen pictures etc.

Windows 10 Settings: Accounts

For all the windows OS, you can make different user account, if your computer is shared with others also. Accounts option will help to do that and also helps to change the profile pictures, password, and full control of the other user accounts, if you are the administrator.

Windows 10 Settings: Time & Language

Here you setup the time of your desktop or laptop, language as you need with your PC and speech setup also. Speech setting is always depends on the type of language as you set in the language section.

Windows 10 Settings: Ease of Access

Windows 10 also provide cool settings called “Ease of access”. In this, I like the narrator setting, which reads the text whatever in your onboard. While internet browsing, sometimes I feel little tired of reading. But the narrator option helps me to read the things, only I need to hear it. Other options are also included such as Magnifier, High contrast templates, caption display setup, mouse pointer setup, keyboard keys settings and visual options.

Windows 10 Settings: Privacy

Privacy is one of the main options which allow users to hide their information from others. That means, without user permission, third parties can’t access it. Windows 10 is also having several apps like abdroid phones. Here you can control the apps access of different parts of your PC such as camera, microphone, messaging, photos, music, etc. You can also control the background apps running which are important in terms of internet data consumption and performance of your PC with windows 10 OS.

Windows 10 Settings: Update & Security

According to this OS, update is an important feature, because Microsoft will not going to release new version of windows ( as per announcements) , only provide the latest update via windows 10 update settings. Security feature of windows 10 is Windows defender which defends you system against malicious softwares and virus attack, if you don’t have additional antivirus tools. It also provide backup, recovery and developer options.

These are the main options contain the windows 10 settings app. It is also connected with your specific settings. This app only helps to access these settings with ease and your windows apps are controlled by this app. In the later posts, each one of the options tutorials is explained in very detail.

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How to Uninstall Programs on Windows 10

Welcome to windows 10 Tutorials for beginners and in this Windows 10 tutorial you are going to see how to uninstall programs on Windows 10 operating system. To uninstall or delete program is very simple in Win 10. You have some basic knowledge of computer is needed to do the same. This tutorial will show you two methods to uninstall program with detailed pictures and Windows 10 video tutorials. Let us learn to uninstall apps or software from your new windows system.

Note: This Windows 10 Tutorial is only for beginners to learn Win 10 OS system.

Learn to Uninstall Programs on Windows 10

This is just an example to uninstall software programs (Windows apps in Win 10) from your system. You are going to see uninstallation of Power ISO software from PC. Let us see how to remove Windows 10 apps in step by step tutorial.

Method-1: Using Apps Settings UI

Watch Windows 10 Video Tutorial for Uninstall Programs on Windows 10:-

First, you have to go to the Windows 10 Start Menu and select “Settings” from it.

Then, you can see the settings dialogue box as shown in the below image. Select “Apps” option from the settings page.

From the appearing apps dialogue box, select “Apps & Features” from the side bar. Then, you can see the all installed windows apps list here.

You can also see a search bar and search the apps or scroll down to select program that need to uninstall from system. Here, typing “PowerISO” which is shown in the below image.

Search will done automatically and you can see “Power ISO Software” now. Click on “Uninstall” option. Then it will ask is you want to delete all related files with this app? . Click “Uninstall” again.

Then, UAC (User Access Control) dialogue box will appear and click “yes” for it.

After that, you can see the PowerISO uninstall dialogue box. Click on “Uninstall”.

The app removal process will start and click on “Finish” upon completion.

 Method 2: Using Control Panel (Like in Windows 7 OS)

Click on “Start Menu” and start type like “Control Panel”.

Click on “Control Panel” which is a default desktop app (built-in Windows 10 app) look same as control panel in Windows 7 system.

Click on “uninstall a program” option and you can see uninstall programs dialogue box. It contains full list of installed software’s in your Windows 10 PC.

Select the program that you want to remove from the PC. Then click on “Uninstall” option which is marked on the image below.

Then you can see UAC asking the permission of uninstall programs from system. Click on “yes” and continue like Method-1.

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How to Change Windows 10 Desktop Background Picture

Are you fan of desktop background images? Do you have craze in adding the desktop background pictures to your desktop? Then this tutorial actually made for you. It is very simple tutorial shows how to add or change the desktop background images in Windows 10 operating system.

About Windows 10

Windows 10 is one of the latest operating system released by Microsoft with latest features and improvements. In this OS, lot of them are not familiar with certain things because of the small changes as compared to windows 7 or windows 8/8.1. Here I am going show the one of the majour change in windows 10 os is “personalization” or “customization” option. The entire settings option user interface is remolded and now its look like really smooth and simple. Windows 10 still uses the control panel, but you can find most of windows 10 features in settings page. Anyway let us see how to add new images as your desktop background.

You need:

• Pictures or HD wallpapers
• Computer with Windows 10 OS

How to Add/Change Desktop Background

Step 1

First, move your mouse pointer to Windows 10 Startmenubutton and click on the left mouse button. Then you can see the startmenu; from that click on the “Settings” option which is shown in above image.

Step 2

The above image shows the diagloue box of settings page. Here you have to click on the “Personlaization” option which is also marked in the above image.

Step 3

Then it will direct you to Personalization page which contains options like Background, Colors, Lock Screen, Themes and Start. Here you need to change desktop background picture. So, select the “background” option (Default background option is always as selected by PC itself).

Step 4

Background is also called as Desktop background, which contains preview of the desktop background with startmenu. So, you could easily get live view of changes as you made in this section.

Just below the preview there is “Background” section. It contains the three options such as Picture, SolidColor and Slideshow.

Actually you need this section, because your aim is to change the picture of the windows 10 desktop background. It provides three background options which is explained below.

Picture: You can simply browse one of your favorite picture in PC and just add it. You can only add one picture.

Solid Color: Instead of adding pictures, you can set your desktop background with solid color.

Slideshow: If you want to show one or more wallpapers on your desktop, use this option. Each picture will automatically change in the set time interval. See How to Create Windows 10 Themes in OS, for knowing the usage of slideshow option.

Windows 10 Desktop background Using Picture Option

Select the “Picture” option and then chose your picture either by browsing or default images. The below that “Chose Fit” option and select the proper fit for setting the image suitable for desktop.

Windows 10 Desktop background Using Solid Color Option

Select the “Solid Color” option in background section. Then solid color pallets (Background Colors) will appear which is shown in the above image. Select one of your favorite color and which will be your windows 10 desktop background is shown below.

This way you can easily change the windows 10 desktop background with very less efforts. In these windows 10 tutorials all the steps are explained with help of images.

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How to Make Windows 10 Themes using Windows 10 OS

Windows 10 operating system is latest release of Microsoft with lot of improvements and new features. Like in the previous version of windows OS provides some desktop customization or windows 10 theme making option for its users. If you have some interesting high quality wallpapers and you want them into your desktop, best choice is to convert into windows 10 themes. That is you can save HD wallpapers in one file and save it into as theme file of format “.dekthemepack”. In this Windows 10 tutorial shows how to make windows 10 themes with simple step by step images.

Let us start the windows 10 theme creation tutorial. Note that, it is completely free of cost and anyone can create your own for windows 10 os and also share to your friends also.

You Need:

1. Windows 10 OS in your PC
2. HD wallpapers (say five HD images)

Step 1: Go to Windows 10 Settings

I already mention the things which are required for creating your own windows themes.

First, move your mouse cursor to the StartMenu and click on it. You can see the startmenu opened and from that select “Settings”.

Windows Start button -> StartMenu -> Settings

Step 2: Select Personalization

Then you can see the main settings page dialogue box. From that select the “Personalization” using the mouse cursor and click on it.

Settings -> Personalization

Step 3: Customize Requirements for Your Theme

This is the personalization option which contains subsections such as Desktop Background, Colors and Themes. These 3 subsections you need to make windows 10 theme. Before going make themes, I will introduce these subsections for future reference.

Desktop background

This option controls the desktop background. Here you can add HD picture, solid color plates, slideshow of different pictures.

Picture: if you want a constant wallpaper on your desktop, select the “picture” option.

Solid Color: You don’t like pictures, but you like to add some solid color as your background, select the “Solid Color” option.

Slideshow: If you have bunch of HD wallpapers and you need to show one by one in certain time intervals, use “Slideshow” option.

Here I am going to make Slideshow type windows 10 theme.

I select the “Slideshow” in the background option.

Next step is “select a picture album or folder” as you want to show in the desktop background.

Click on the “browse” button and select the “Picture album folder” and click on “Choose this folder”.

Then set the time interval to change the picture in the “Change picture every” option. Click on the down arrow and select a time interval. It contains time interval from 1 minute to 1 day.

Choose the fit of your background picture. It contains options such as Fill, Fit, Stretch, Tile, Center and Span. You should select appropriate fit as per your wallpaper size.

Choose Color

The next subsection is color of windows 10 theme. Here you on or off the automatic color selection option. The automatic color selection finds the suitable color for your background image. You can also off this option and select any color from the color pallets. I recommended for enabling “automatically pick an accent color from my background”.

If you interested in more color editing, go for “High Contrast Setting”. From the dialogue box, select any one of the contrast theme and edit the color as per your requirement.

Here I’m simply switch on the “Automatically pick an accent color from my background”.

Themes Settings

Click on the “theme settings” option. Then additional dialogue box from control panel will appear, named as “Personalization” like the older windows 7 or windows 8/8.1 interface. It contains default windows 10 themes, high contrast themes and also unsaved themes.

The “unsaved theme” named is your theme.

Click o the theme to select and click the right button which give small menu contain two options. They are “Save theme” and “Save theme for sharing”.

Save Theme: If you select save theme option, the theme will saved on your computer.

Save theme for sharing: This option give the “.deskthemepack” format file, which you can share to your friends, upload internet etc.  

Here I need windows 10 theme file output, so I select “save theme for sharing” option.

Then a dialogue box will appear and here select location to save your theme file. Then name it. Click “Save”. Your windows 10 theme is now fully created. You can share this file to your friends and upload to your blog for free usage. This way you can also create simple windows 10 themes with more no of wallpapers.

Note: This is very basic windows 10 tutorial showing how to make windows 10 slideshow theme. Here you can only edit the wallpapers, color and sound. If you want to edit the icons also, I recommend some of the paid windows 10 theme creator software’s.

Also concentrate on the size of theme. Of you have big MB wallpapers, please reduce the image actual size and then use them for creating windows themes. Otherwise, theme will result in big MB files and you will have lot of trouble to share it.

   

Feel free to ask about this tutorial and any recommendation about paid windows 10 theme creators.

Thank you friends.

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How to Use Shutdown/Restart/ Sleep Windows 10 PC

Windows 10 is new operating system developed by Microsoft with lot of improvements and new features to the old versions. This post is part of Windows 10 tutorials shows how to shutdown or restart windows 10 computer. This tutorial is completely for beginners, who don’t know how to use windows 10 operating system.

Before going to windows 10 tutorials, you must know about shutdown and restart options. Shutdown option helps to completely turn off your windows 10 PC. Restart option helps to restart your pc. It will give fresh start to your computer by closing any recently working programs.The sleep option is commonly used when your pc running in low power. It helps to stay all apps open when you are wakup the system.  In windows 10 OS, Shutdown, sleep and Restart options are comes under the “Power” Section. I mainly use these options, when my PC is performing too slowly to perform or want to close not responding programs.

Let us see the simple step by step windows 10 tutorials showing how to use Windows 10 shutdown or restart or sleep option with aid of images.

How to Shutdown/Restart Windows 10 PC

Step 1

First go to the start menu button and click on it. You can easily find the start menu at taskbar user interface which shown in the image below.

Step 2

Here you can see the windows 10 start menu. From start menu, click on the “Power” option.

Step 3

Then you can see an additional drag-up menu which consists of option like “Sleep”, “Restart” and “Shutdown”.

Step 4

Using the three options, you can do three different functions.

To shutdown windows 10, click on the “Shutdown” option.

To restart your windows 10 PC, click on the “Restart” option.

To sleep your Pc, click on the “Sleep” option.

Note: This windows10 tutorials is mainly for beginners, who don’t know how to operate windows 10 OS.

Thank you for reading this tutorials and feel free to ask your questions, doubts etc via comment box. Thanks again.

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How to Use Windows 10 Windows Store Effectively?

Windows 10 Tutorial 7: Windows Store

With new windows 10 upgrade, a lot more improvements come to the windows operating systems. Here Microsoft fully converts system as one major account which can operate like your new mail account. Windows 10 features are also well upgraded and help to effectively utilize it with your internet connection. Such one of the feature is Windows Store. In this Windows 10 Tutorials, I am going show how to use the windows store effectively and different purposes of it.

Before going to tutorial, you should know about some details about Windows Store. I think you are well known about Google Play Store. Like play store, Microsoft windows have millions apps collection for windows phone. Now, apps are integrated to windows pc also with Windows Store. It helps to access all useful apps, games etc in your Windows 10 PC. You can enjoy all apps and games in pc and you only need windows 10 pc with solid internet connection.

Windows Store contains both free and paid versions of apps, games, Xbox games, Music, Movies and TV shows. If you want to find a specific app, you can use the search bar provided in home interface. You can see it in the above image. All of apps, games etc are well arranged and no difficulties to find the required apps/games/movies/music.

Main uses of Windows Store

• It helps to use social site apps, multimedia, office apps etc
• You can access the windows phone games in your laptop
• Download Xbox games to your pc
• Buy and watch movies and TV program episodes
• Buy and listen different genre music with it

Let us show how to use windows 10 windows store for different purposes with step by step image.

Windows 10 Tutorials 7: How to Download Apps from Windows Store

This is tutorial is base of all other tutorials in this post. I only mark the step numbers in the below tutorials to avoid repetitions. Let us begin it.

Note: Before going to use Windows Store, You must connect your computer with Internet

Step 1

Find the Windows Store app in your PC user interface and open it. You can find it in your taskbar as well as start menu. Click on the Windows store app icon in your PC taskbar as shown below.

To access it via start menu, click on the start menu button and you can see the windows store app in the tiled apps section, which is also shown in the image below.

Click on the app to open it.

If you don’t have proper internet connection, app is not going to open until you have solid internet connection. The speed of the app is depends upon your internet connection speed.

Step 2

You can see the home interface in your pc like in the image below.

Home UI shows top rated apps, games, music, movies and Xbox games. Here you need to find the apps. So move to apps by clicking on the apps menu.

You can see the apps page and select or search the required apps in this page. For example, I am going to select a free app called ‘Facebook’. Here I am going to show how to download it to your windows 10 pc.

Just click on the Facebook apps and then it directed to Facebook app page. Here you can see the apps 

details, app screenshots, features, rating and reviews of it. Before downloading the windows apps, you should read the reviews and rating of customers. It helps to find the good and bad apps in the store. 

Click on the “Free” blue button as marked in the above image to start download of this app. When the app starts to download, you can see the progress in the download section. You can find it top side, right end of menu bar.

After completing the install the Facebook app appear in the start menu tiled section. From there, you can open it and enjoy the facebook like in your mobile.

This way you download any windows apps to your computer using windows store app.

 Windows 10 Tutorials 7: How to Download Games from Store

Follow the Step 1 in the top tutorial.

Step 2

Click on the “Games” menu section and you can see the free as well as paid games with rating and price.

Here I select free game called “Hill Climb Racing”. Click on it and you will direct to hill climb racing page. Here you see the details of the game, screenshots etc like the app page.

Click on the “Free” button and your game will start to download. This way you download all games in your windows store app.

Windows 10 Tutorials 7: How to Download Music from Store

Follow the Step 1 in the top tutorial.

Step 2

Go to “Music” menu and select the music you want to listen in your windows 10 computer.

Click on the any music and you will go to that music page.

Before you download, you listen the preview of the music. To see the preview, just select the music and click on the play button like in the below image.

To download it, click on the price button and you need to buy it. It will ask you to enter the Microsoft account PIN number.

Then you will directed to add payment page.

Click on the “Add payment method”. It will go to page with payment method section, either credit card or paypal. Select one of the payment methods you have. Here I am select “Paypal”.

Click on the “Next” button.

Update your account by click on the “Continue” button. It will help to add your PayPal account to Microsoft account. If your Microsoft account mail id is have active paypal account, you will redirect to paypal login page and you can done the payment. After that you can download the music to your pc. Otherwise it shows your payment method is not active and tries by another way.

This way you can download music to your computer using windows store app.

You can also download Movies&TV shows using the Windows Store app. I will show how to download movies&tv shows using the this app in the upcoming tutorials.

I think you can easily follow my instructions. If you don’t feel free to contact me via comment box or contact form. Thank you and waiting for your honest opinions.

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Windows 10 Virtual Desktop or TaskView Button - Windows 10 Tutorial

Do you know about the new windows 10 virtual desktop feature? Actually, the virtual desktop is enabled by using the “TaskView” button, which is located in the windows 10 taskbar. The TaskView option is very much useful feature helps to create two or more virtual desktops for different tasks. This is post is part of Windows 10 tutorial showing how to enable the TaskView button and how to use it in your pc.

TaskView: Virtual Desktop in Windows 10

Taskview feature mainly enables the virtual desktops in windows 10 operating system. It is look same as the normal desktop, but you can add different apps or tasks as per your wish. It mainly helps to organize or grouping your different activities in the desktop. That is this feature enables the multitasking ability of windows 10 pc. You can create any number of desktops in it. In my opinion, do not create too many virtual desktop windows, because it will very difficult to manage them. Also read Windows 10 Start Menu.

Main applications of Taskview (virtual desktop) are:-

1. Organize or grouping your works in different windows 10 virtual desktop ‘s
2. Get more space for your desktop for easy use and improved productivity
3. Enables Task separation and control over multitasking 

How to Enable Task View in Windows 10

Using Taskbar Menu

In the Windows 10 UI, the bottom bar is called taskbar. Move your mouse pointer to taskbar and click right button on it. Then you can see the taskbar menu. From that select “Show TaskView Button” option as shown in the figure.

Then you can see the TaskView button on the taskbar is shown below.

To disable it, follow the same procedure and uncheck the tick.

Keyboard Shortcode:  “Windows button + Tab”

How to Use Windows 10 Virtual Desktop

In the above tutorial, you could see how to enables the virtual desktop window button. Here I am going explain how to create virtual desktops and its usage in my terms.

Go to taskbar and click on the “TaskView” button.

By default, you can always see the original desktop. If you need to add new desktop, click on the bottom right corner “New Desktop” button as shown in the image.

This way you can easily create virtual desktop on windows 10 OS.

Keyboard Shortcode: “Windows button + Ctrl +D”

I mainly use two desktop, one for grouping my professional work (mechanical design) and other for entertainment and social networking website.

When you click on the “taskview” button, you can see the enables desktops as in the above image. To switching to new desktop, just click using mouse.

Then add different task’s as per your requirement.

Keyboard Shortcode: “Windows Button + Ctrl + Left or Right arrow”

How to Move One Task to another Virtual Desktop

To move one open task from one desktop to another, you need to first open the Taskview either using mouse or keyboard shortcode (Windows button + Tab).

Then click and hold the opened task as you need to move to another desktop. Simply drag it and place on the new desktop is shown in the image below.

This is all about windows 10 virtual desktop creation and usage. Below also provide shortcode keys for your keyboard to use this feature faster in touch or non-touch devices.

Keyboard Shortcode:

• Windows + Tab – for activating the task view
• Windows  + Ctrl +D - for Creating New Desktop
• Windows  + Ctrl + F4 - for closing the current desktop.
• Windows + Ctrl + Left or Right arrow - for switching between virtual desktops

Feel free to share your honest opinion about this windows 10 tutorial via comment or contact form. Thank you friends.

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How to Add or Change Profile Photo in Windows 10 PC

Windows 10 is latest operating system from Microsoft, which is very simple and user-friendly than previous versions. The most of windows 10 main apps like cortana, calendar, mail, skype etc works with Microsoft account. This windows 10 tutorial, I am going show how to add a profile picture in your account. Here shows two methods to add profile photo in your pc account. One is using start menu and other is via, settings option.

Note: This Windows 10 tutorials is completely for beginner level people.

How to Add or Change Profile Photo in Windows 10

I think you know how to sign in to your windows 10 pc account. If you don’t know it, Read how to create Microsoft account tutorial now.

After signing in, you can see the windows 10 pc desktop. Click on the start menu button. You can locate the start menu button at the bottom left corner is shown below.

Click on the top option in startmenu showing your computer name and then you can see the drag drop menu. Then click on the “Change account Settings” as shown in the figure below.

 The change account settings option will redirect to account settings page of your windows 10 pc which is also shown below.

Select the “Your account” section. Here you can see the “Your Picture” section.

If you have photo in your harddisk, click on the “Browse” button. Then you can see the dialogue box, from that select the photo file (.jpeg or .png format) as you wish to add to as profile picture. If you don’t have a picture, you can create one using webcam.

Then click “Choose Picture”. The new picture is added to your windows 10 pc.

Or

Click start menu button and select the “Settings” option. Then you can see the settings dialogue box.

Select the “Accounts” option from it. Then you can see the change picture option the your account subsection. This is just an alternate way to access the account section via, settings page.

Overall, Windows 10 tutorial is very simple and I tried to include maximum images with marked portions. If you have any doubt or confusion related to this tutorial, feel free to ask me via comment form. Thank you friends.

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