Hope everyone using Windows 8 and i'm sure all of you noticed about the new interface of windows 8.
Here i'm posting some known/unknown features of Windows8.
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1. Lock screen
Windows 8 has open on it's pretty cool lock screen but unfortunately there is no clue whats next ? It's all very straightforward, though. Just tap the space bar, spin the mouse wheel or swipe upwards on a touch screen to reveal a regular log in screen with the user name you created during installation. Enter your password to begin.
2. Basic navigation
No we can see a color full page with lots of colorful square and rectangular boxes. It's the new interface of Windows 8 , techies called it as Metro UI. And if you're using a tablet then it'll all be very straightforward: just swipe left or right to scroll the screen, and tap any tile of interest.
On a regular desktop, though, you might alternatively spin the mouse wheel to scroll backwards and forwards. And also you can use keyboard left and right arrow key to move from one tile to another and Enter key for tap the selection.
3. Find your applications
One of the best feature of windows 8 is finding installed apps/software's very easily. You can search any installed apps/software's/files by entering the name followed by a Win key press.
4. Easy access
Another advantage of Metro UI is you can pin any of the installed apps to your start screen very easily and can access it by a single click. To pin the app in your start screen just follow the steps below.
- Press Win key.
- Search the app which you want to pin in the start screen.
- Right click on the app tile.
- Click "Pin" option in the bottom app bar.
Here I'm pinned Cryptor RSA to my Start screen.
5. Shutting down
Shutting down your windows 8 machine is one of the main problem facing by a first user. To shut Windows 8 down, just move your cursor to the top/bottom right of the screen , click the Settings icon - or just press the Windows key and press I - and you'll see a power button. Click this and choose 'Shut Down' or 'Restart'.
6. App bar
App bar is one of the new feature implemented by Microsoft to avoid complex menu's and tool bars. It aims to make Windows 8 simpler to the end user.There will usually be a few options available on the App bar, though, so if you're unsure what to do then either right-click an empty part of the screen, press Windows+Z or flick your finger up from the bottom of the screen to take a closer look.
7. What's running?
If you launch a Windows 8 app, play with it for a while, then press the Windows key you'll switch back to the Start screen but your app will remain running, but as there's no task bar then you might be wondering how you'd ever find that out.
You can use Alt+Tab, which shows you what's running just as it always has.
Holding down the Windows key and pressing Tab displays a pane on the left-hand side of the screen with your running apps. (To see this with the mouse, move your cursor to the top left corner of the screen, wait until the thumbnail of one app appears, then drag down.)
And of course you can always press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to see all your running apps in the Task Manager, if you don't mind (or actually need) the extra technical detail.
8. Closing an app
Windows apps don't have a close button because it is mainly aimed to touch interfaces.Apps are suspended when you switch to something else so they're only a very minimal drain on your system, and if you need the system resources then they'll automatically be shut down. (Their context will be saved, of course, so on relaunching they'll carry on where you left off.)
The closing mode of windows 8 app is just drag and drop to the bottom. You can simply close any of apps by clicking the top of the app and then it drag to the bottom of the screen.
9. Internet Explorer
You can simply launch Internet Explorer by pressing "Internet key in the keyboard" or using the IE tile in the start screen. IE in windows 8 is completely based on Metro UI.
10. Apps running in the sidebar.
One of the best feature in Windows 8 is you can run two apps in the same window simply. To run app in the side bar just drag the app and drop to any one of the side (left/right).
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