20 Tips And Tricks Using Windows 8

At this time Windows 8 is full of features that are confusing even for the most experienced PC user though. But not all of these features are bad. Worse, the OS is designed primarily for touch control, and as a result, the use of the mouse and keyboard feels like a touch screen. We have compiled a favorite list of Windows 8 shortcuts, tricks, and workarounds . Now let's start our journey from easy-to-use eyesight though often hard to remember, ie Windows 8 hotkey .

Using Hotkeys on Windows 8

In this key combination, hold down the Windows key (usually located between Alt and Ctrl) and other buttons, as described in this list.

• Press the Windows key to enter the Start Screen screen.
• Press the Windows key + M key to minimize any page on the desktop.
• Press the Windows key + E key to open Explorer for quick access to the folder.
• On the Home screen, press the Windows key + D key to open the desktop.
• Press the Windows key + Tab key to open the list of currently running programs.
• Press the Windows key + Print Screen button to take a screenshot and save it in the Screenshots folder in your photo folder.
• To take a screenshot on a Windows 8 tablet, simultaneously press the Windows key and the volume-down button on the tablet's chassis.
• Press the Windows key + Q key to open the global search menu. Type what you are looking for and where you want to see.
• Press the Windows key + W key to open the search in the system settings quickly and change the system settings.
• Press the Windows key + F key to open the file and search folder.
• Press the Windows key + Pause button to open the system properties page to display a brief description of your specifications.
• Press the Windows key + "," (that's a comma!) Make all windows transparent, so you can peek at the desktop as long as you hold the Windows key.
• Press the Windows key + "." Locked window to right or left side (toggling every time you press ".").
• Press the Windows key + R menampilakn RUN command, useful for launching applications and other routines quickly with the command prompt.
• Pressing the Windows key + X key will open the Access Menu quickly, expose system functions such as Command Prompt, Disk Management, File Explorer, Run, and more. Alternatively, you can right-click in the bottom-right corner of the screen to eject the Quick Access Menu.
• Pressing the Windows key + I key opens the settings menu, giving you quick access to Control Panel, Personalization, and Power buttons, and other features.
• Press the Windows key + O key orientation on the device with accelerometer.

Features Zoom Out and Zoom In

The large, beautiful Screen Start Screen represents all your apps. With apps in small groups that are easy to see, but what if you have hundreds of apps installed? Most will be hidden from view of your Start Screen screen, unless you want to do a lot of scrolling. So you can see hidden apps. If you are using a touch screen, start pressing the screen with two fingers to get a view with the Zoom feature so your app will look great. And this feature is also available for mouse and keyboard users: Just hold down the Ctrl key, and use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

Categorize Your Apps

Your Start Screen screen will be very messy if you accumulate too many apps on your screen, so use the advantages of built-in organization tools that can divide all apps into groups.

First, drag all the apps you want to group into one group to the right side of the Start screen in an empty area. Once you're done with the app's clustering, use the semantic zoom (described above) to get a full view of the app on the screen. Now right-click the group (or just drag it down on it), and select the "Group name" option to the left of the bar that appears below. Type in the name of your group, and enjoy the screen you have designed you want.

Close the app

Closing an application sounds pretty simple, but you'll soon see that the close button is hard to find in Windows 8. That's because Microsoft encourages us to run the app by taking the minimal resources, but still accessible at all times.

However, if you still insist, you can close an app by dragging it with your mouse or finger from the top of the screen all the way down. As you drag, the app will miminize to the thumbnail, and when you reach the bottom, it will disappear from view. Alternatively, you can still close the app via Alt + F4 and through Task Manager.

Use Contextual Search

The feature of the search function lies in the Charm Bar , allowing you to search directories and not just on your Windows 8 machine, but also on larger Windows ecosystems. Simply select the bucket data you want to filter like: all your installed applications, your system settings, your files, your email and messages, or even external services like Windows Store or Bing Maps. Type in a keyword, and press Enter. The Search function will then provide you with the perfect search results from your database.

Privacy Settings

Many of the users set the privacy application by default, such as: images, locations, and names contained in your operating system. And many of the operating system users do not feel comfortable and secure their data. So to adjust your privacy settings, simply press the Windows key + l key, and enter the PC Setttings settings, select privacy option , and personalize your personal data settings there.

Adjust SmartScreen Settings

The SmartScreen feature warns you before running an unrecognized app or file from the internet. While it helps to warn the source file, constant warnings can also be a bit annoying. To make the settings by default, you need permission from the administrator account, but this can easily be adjusted with only a warning or no indication at all. Using the  magic search function described above, type "security"on the Start screen and find "Check security status" on the Settings tab. Thus, you can customize various security settings, including SmartScreen Windows.

Bring up Quick Access Menu

Right-click on the bottom left of the screen-whether you are on the Windows Start screen or on the desktop-will bring up the Quick Access Menu, which allows direct connection to many key system management tasks, including Disk Management, Task Manager ,Device Manager , and Control Panel .

Use Windows 8 apps and your Desktop simultaneously

Because Windows 8 experience is shared between new Windows 8 Store apps and desktop old-school desktop applications , operating systems are vulnerable to strange cases. Case in point: When running the multimonitor setup, the Windows 8 app will consume your main screen, then leave your secondary screen to run the desktop. This setting would seem to allow full screen with multitaskingbetween the two types of modern applications on the left side, the desktop app on the right side, but this is not the case. Of course, once you start using the desktop on your secondary screen, the new style of Windows 8 app disappears, and your home screen starts running the desktop.

But on your main screen, by using the new Windows 8 split-screen "snapping" function to run both the desktop and Windows 8 store apps at the same time. The desktop can take a left piece of screen, while Windows 8 app consumes most of the screen. Now use thesecond screen for a complete desktop view. In this setting, you can fully multitask between  new-style applications and desktop applications, and both windows will be large enough to be useful to use

Task Manager for Startup items

You no longer have to run the msconfig program to change the startup items . The startup item now appears in the tab in Task Manager.Just press Ctrl + Alt + Del and select Task Manager. Click "More details" at the bottom and find the Startup tab at the top.

Share and Share alike

Windows 8 is Microsoft's first social-media-aware PC operating system  . By using the Share button located in the Charm bar , you can select a number of elements from the Windows 8 Store app such as: the location of your Application Map, news from the Finance application, or even contacts from your friends app, and then distribute the items to your friends. Your friends through other Windows 8 programs.

Perhaps the easiest, you can quickly share photos via email or Twitter, or to your own SkyDrive or Windows Phone. By using the contextual Share Button, and the more you use it, the more you will find apps that share with each other, and which ones are not. (Hint: No desktop app offers you a chance to share through the Charms menu ).

Create Password with images

Using a password with pictures is a fun way of keeping your device, so you do not have to remember your passowrd. To enable it, press the Windows key + I key to get to Charm settings . Click "Change PC settings" at the bottom right, and go to the Users tab. Below the"Sign-in options" option will be the "Create a picture password" button . This will give you the option to select any image, and then specify any three moves in the image. Your movement can be circled, swipes, and clicks.

For example, to set the image password for the image above, you can click on the highest palm tree, draw a circle around the island, and then slide down from the outer lens at the top right. But be careful: because the direction of every thing gesture effect! After confirming several times, your image password will be set.

Boot to the desktop without using the app

One of the biggest complaints about Windows 8 is that booting directly to the Start Screen is an inconvenience to desktop users. The Start8 utility helps you avoid this issue (among other interesting features), but you can actually boot directly to the desktop without having to install anything.

Go to the Start Screen screen and type "schedule" to find the schedule task in the settings page . Click on the  left Library Task Scheduler, then choose Create Task . Give your task something like "Boot to desktop" . Now select the Triggers tab , select New, and use the  drop-down box to select start "At log on" task  . Click OK and go to the Actions tab , select New, and enter "explorer" for Program or Script value .

Log In without username and password

To speed up the log-in process, you may want to disable username and password log-in on your screen. You can do this by opening the Run window (press the Windows key + R key) and typing "netplwiz" to access the User Accounts dialog box . Uncheck the box near the top that says  "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer". Click OK, and enter your username and password for the last time to confirm your choice, and you are ready for easy access to your system.

Refresh Your PC

If your operating system feels a bit sluggish, it may be time to refresh. In the past we had to find a copy of Windows 7, to back up all the data, and do a fresh install to enjoy back-to-factory-fresh . But now Windows 8 allows you to perform new installations from within Windows without losing any data.

In order to refresh, go to Settings and click the Change PC Settings tab near the bottom. Select the General tab and find  "Refresh your PC without affecting your files" near the center (you can also select  "Remove everything and reinstall Windows" to get the correct windows settings). Select "Get started" and press "Refresh" . After a few minutes the PC will restart, and you will have a copy of Windows 8.

Start in Safe Mode

Safe Mode is a great way to get into your system, when something that will not allow you to start windows normally. Problems become easy when drivers are corrupted and files that are not loaded prevent the system from functioning normally. This is used as easily as pressing F8 when the system starts up, but doing it with Windows 8 will take you to Auto Repair Mode. Trick to get back to Safe Mode as before, ie Hold down the Shift key and press F8 at boot up.

This will take you to Recovery Mode , then Select  advanced options , then troubleshoot , then choose advanced options again. SelectWindows Startup Settings and finally the Restart button . This will reboot your computer and give you the option to boot into Safe Mode.

If you need to enter Safe Mode from within Windows, open the dialog box (Windows key key + R) and type "msconfig" (without the quotation marks). Select the Boot tab and check the Safe boot box box. The system will continue to boot into Safe Mode until you get back and uncheck the box.

Turning the Application On and Off

When you see a lot of tiles apps on your Start Screen screen, this tiles application is very beautiful with a variety of colors. By offeringreal-time data  on your Start Screen screen, so you do not have to open the application. For example the Weather tile application will show the current state, and Mail will display the subject of recent messages you receive.

You can customize which apps are running and which are not by right-clicking on the tile app. A settings bar at the bottom will appear with the option to turn Live Tile on or off. Just select the preferred option, and you are ready. However, that not all apps have real-time data-streaming options .

Search for Windows game Folder

Currently the game folder contained in Windows 7 is not present in Windows 8. Do not be afraid, if you install the current generation PC games will instantly save the game regularly, and the folder will automatically be created. For a quick way to find the game folder, right-click on the game icon on the Start screen and select  "Open file location" at the bottom.

Enable Family Safety

This program aims to avoid the danger of using your credit card account. By creating a separate account on the device for your children (Family Safety can not be applied to an administrator account). You can enable Family Safety by going to Control Panel, User Accounts,and Family Safety, and choosing the account you want to apply. From this setting you can get reports on account activity, set Web filtering levels, set deadlines, and restrictions for Windows Store, games, and apps.

Shut down with one click

Windows 8 hides the Power button on the Settings menu, which forces the staging process only to turn off a person's PC. But thanks to the shortcut trick, you can put the Shutdown button on the bottom right of your desktop. Here's how.

Create a shortcut on your desktop (right click, go to New, then Shortcut). Enter "shutdown / s / t 0" (without quotation marks, and, yes, it is zero instead of "O") as the item location, and press Next. Now name the shortcut (prefereably "Shutdown" ) and press Finish.

Right-click on the shortcut, and navigate to Properties. Select the  Change Icon on the Shortcut tab, then OK to leave the warning box.Select the icon of your choice from the list. In the picture above, you will see we choose the Power button. Right-click the shortcut again, and select Pin to Start. You can place an icon on your Start screen wherever you want. By clicking on the button it will immediately turn off your computer.