SOME Windows 8 tips and tricks
Customize your tiles
Make your Windows 8 Start screen tiles by adjusting the location
where you want to locate them.
- Move any tile by clicking and dragging the tile. After moving a tile, if you need a full view of that tile just click on that tile
- Use your mouse wheel to scroll left-to-right through your tiles.
- Any program or desktop shortcut can be pinned to the Start screen by right-clicking the icon and choosing Pin to Start.
- In the bottom right-hand corner of the start screen is a magnifying glass with tiles, click this icon to get a zoomed out view of your Start screen. In this view, you can move group of tiles, by right-clicking on a group of tiles you'll be able to give a name to group of tiles, which can be useful if you have a group of related tiles (e.g. games, your friend circle).
- Create a new speed bump between tile groups by moving a tile to a speed bump.
- Live tile or resize any User tile or by right-clicking the tile and choosing resize, live.
- If you want a tile on your Taskbar, right-click the tile and choose Pin to taskbar.
Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts
All of you know the basic shortcuts of
Windows 7. NOW some of the Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts will make your Windows
8 experience much more enjoyable. Try to memorize these top Windows 8 shortcut
keys.
- Press the Windows key to open the Start screen or switch to the Desktop (if open).
- Press the Windows key + . to pin and unpin Windows apps on the side of the screen.
- Press the Windows key + D will open the Windows Desktop.
- Press the Windows key + X to open the power user menu, which gives you access to many of the features most power users would want (e.g. Device Manager and Command Prompt).
- Press the Windows key + C to open the Charms.
- Press and hold the Windows key + Alt+Tab to show open apps.
- Press the Windows key + Print screen to create a screen shot, which is automatically saved into your My Pictures folder.
- Press the Windows key + I to open the Settings, which is the same Settings found in Charms.
Know your hot corners
The corners on your screen (that may
be start screen corner or any window corner) are hot corners and give you
access to different Windows features.
They are:-
Bottom Left-hand corner
The bottom left-hand hot corner of
the screen will allow you to reach to the Start screen, if you're in the Start
screen and your Desktop open, this corner will open the Desktop from the Start
screen.
"Tip: Right-clicking in the left hand corner will open the power user menu."
Top-left corner of the screen
Moving the mouse to the top-left
corner and down will display all the running application on your computer.
Right-hand side of the screen
On the full right-hand side of the screen will
be given access to the Windows Charms.
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