Windows 10 All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Are you ready to become the resident Windows 10 expert in your office? Look no further! This book is your one-stop shop for everything related to the latest updates to this popular operating system. With the help of this comprehensive resource, you'll be able to back up your data and ensure the security of your network, use Universal Apps to make your computer work smarter, and personalize your Windows 10 experience. Windows 10 powers more than 400 million devices worldwide--and now you can know how to make it work better for you with Windows 10 All-in-One For Dummies.
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Woody Leonhard is a bestselling author and has been a Microsoft beta tester since Word for Windows 1.1. He covers Windows and Office topics on his popular Web site, AskWoody.com.
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What do you do when you discover a brand-new security hole in Windows 10 or Office or another Microsoft product? Why, you sell it, of course. Hence, the rising of 0day exploits.When a person writes a malicious program that takes advantage of a newly discovered security hole — a hole that even the manufacturer doesn’t know about — that malicious program is a 0day exploit.
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Many people drive themselves insane when they're adjusting to a new machine or new operating system like Windows 10. Here are five tips to avoid the insanity:
If there's no mouse cursor on the screen or the cursor won't move no matter how much you move the mouse, check the batteries.
If that doesn't work, shut the computer down, make sure the mouse is plugged in, and restart the computer.
Microsoft made a lot of mistakes in Windows 10’s first year of existence. Chief among them was the widely despised “Get Windows 10” campaign, the first of the Windows 10 problems. Combining the worst of intrusive malware, forced updates, bad interface design, presumptive implementation, and a simple lack of respect for Windows 7 and 8.
Some people experiencing frustrations with Windows 10 wonder, do I have to run Windows on my PC? Here’s the short answer: You don’t have to run Windows on your PC. The PC you have is a dumb box. To get the dumb box to do anything worthwhile, you need a computer program that takes control of the PC and makes it do things, such as show web pages on the screen, respond to mouse clicks or taps, or print résumés.
Microsoft has famously announced that Windows 10 is “the last version of Windows.” Which is to say, uh, Windows 10 is anything but the last version of Windows. However, the release of various versions of Windows 10 has many users shaking their heads wondering why there have been different versions of Windows 10.
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Ransomware — software that scrambles files and demands a payment before unscrambling — has become quite the rage. Windows 10 takes measures to block ransomware on your device. While, it’s an easy way for Script Kiddies to monetize their malware, it’s definitely a situation no Windows 10 user wants to find herself in.
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If you set up an account in Windows 10, and the account has an everyday, ordinary password, you can use a picture password. It’s easy. Changing your login password in Windows 10 to a picture password consists of two parts: First, you choose a picture — any picture — and then you tell Windows 10 that you’re going to draw on that picture in a particular way, such as taps, clicks, circles, and straight lines, with a finger or a mouse.
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Firewalls can be absolutely infuriating and Windows 10 Firewall is no exception. may have a program that has worked for a hundred years on all sorts of computers, but the minute you install it on a Windows 10 machine with Windows Firewall in action, it just stops working, for absolutely no apparent reason. Luckily, you can change the Windows 10 Firewall to allow your favorite programs.
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Windows 10 supports two very different kinds of file compression. The distinction is confusing but important. Understanding how Windows 10 compresses files and folders will help you understand if you need NTFS.File compression reduces the size of a file by cleverly taking out parts of the contents of the file that aren’t needed, storing only the minimum amount of information necessary to reconstitute the file — extract it — into its full original form.
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Windows 10 lets you create password reset questions so that you don’t have to contact support every time you forget or lose your password. If you have a Microsoft account, the only way to reset the password is online. Go to Microsoft’s Reset Password page, and follow the instructions.If you have a local account (not a Microsoft account), Microsoft doesn’t store your password on its computers.
Windows 10 has location tracking or what many refer to as GPS tracking. You have to tell Windows 10 and specific applications that it’s okay to track your location using GPS, but if you do, those apps — and Windows 10 itself — know where you are. However, there are ways to disable GPS tracking in Windows 10.
Location tracking using GPS isn’t a bad technology.
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The Windows 10 action center contains a gob (that’s a technical term) of shortcuts at the bottom of the Notifications pane. You have some control over how you display those settings shortcuts in Windows 10. Below, there are ten of them. If this Windows 10 computer used a Wi-Fi connection, there would have been additional shortcuts for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, rotation lock, battery saver, and brightness.
If you're going from an earlier version of Windows to Windows 10, you might be wondering, "Where the Heck Did Microsoft Put It?" about any number of features.
Upgrading from Windows 7
If you're going from Windows 7 to Windows 10, here's what's changed:
Don't get freaked out by the tiles. No doubt you've heard that Windows 8 messed up Windows, but the tiles in Windows 10 are very different from the tiles in Windows 8.
You need to quickly do a few things to get the most out of your Windows 10 operating system. Here's what you need to do, like, pronto:
Step through the basics using Microsoft's Get Started app. Click or tap the Start icon in the lower left of the screen and then choose Get Started, up at the top of the Most Used list.
Windows 10
This information is for folks who are using Windows 7 or 8.1 and trying to upgrade to Windows 10 but can’t, and for those who are trying to move from one version of Windows 10 to the next. It’s no surprise that some might find some Windows 10 installation problems. Here, you will find some installation problems, including initial setup problems, and offer a bit of advice and some pointers, should you find yourself trapped between the offal and the impeller.
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If a screen shot’s worth a thousand words, a video of the screen in action must be worth a thousand and one at least, right? Luckily, any problems you face in Windows 10 can be recorded. You simply have to use a handy Windows 10 tool to make a screen record of any problems you encounter.Windows 10 includes the magical Problem Steps Recorder (PSR), recently renamed the Steps Recorder, which lets you take a movie of your screen.
When you get Windows 10, Edge is set up as the default browser: Click a web link in a document, for example, and Edge jumps up to load the web page on your Windows 10 device. But, if you prefer to use a different browser with Windows 10, you can set the one of your choice.Both Firefox and Chrome offer to become your default web browser, as soon as you install them.
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If you’re looking at the Recent files on your Windows 10 computer and you can’t see the period and three-letter suffixes of the filenames (such as .txt and .tif and .jpg), don’t panic! You can show or hide filename extensions at your will with Windows 10. You simply need to tell Windows 10 to show them — electronically knock Windows upside the head, if you will.
How can you stay informed about cyber attacks? When you rely on the evening news to keep yourself informed about the latest cyber attacks, you quickly discover that the mainstream press frequently doesn’t get the details right. Hey, if you were a newswriter with a deadline ten minutes away and you had to figure out how the new Bandersnatch 0day exploit shreds through a Windows TCP/IP stack buffer — and you had to explain your discoveries to a TV audience, at a presumed sixth-grade intelligence level — what would you do?
Nearby Sharing allows you to network your Windows 10 devices. Before you can share files with Nearby Sharing, you must first turn on the feature by following these steps:
Click the Start button, choose the Settings icon, and choose the System category.The Settings app opens to show its System settings.
Choose Shared Experiences from the left pane.
You may want to think of it as the Windows 10 Universal People app, but it’s really just Windows 10’s contact list. Nothing pretentious about it. In fact, at this point, it isn’t even a capable as the contact list in Windows 8.1, which is saying something. The Universal People app is a simple contact list.The Windows 10 People app keeps a list of contacts.
Windows 10 users who don’t feel internet savvy often want to know about specific tools for the Internet. Take a look below for internet tools that every Windows 10 user needs!
Internet speed test for Windows 10 users
Everybody, but everybody, needs (or wants) to measure her Internet speed from time to time. The sites many Windows 10 experts use these days for testing is DSLreport.
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You might think that simply moving a file or folder to the \Public folder in Windows 10 would make it, well, public. At least to a first approximation, that’s exactly how things work. But, there’s a little more to making files “public” in Windows 10.Any file or folder you put in the Windows 10 \Public folder, or any folder inside the \Public folder, can be viewed, changed, or deleted by all the people who are using your computer, regardless of which kind of account they may have and whether they’re required to log in to your computer.
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Auto Update’s an unnecessary risk for people who know how to use Windows 10 and who keep current with Windows developments. If you’re knowledgeable enough to perform basic Windows 10 upkeep, you should seriously consider taking Windows patching into your own hands and turning off auto updates.
The core problem: Microsoft still hasn’t figured out how to deliver reliable Windows patches.
Windows 10 is different from any Windows operating system you've used before, in both good and bad ways. Here's how to keep your head while others all about you are losing theirs:
DON'T assume the new apps will work best for you. Many Windows 10 adoptees rush to the new Mail, Calendar, People, Photos, Groove Music, Movies & TV, and other apps, assuming that they're shiny and new and must therefore be pretty darn good.
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Privacy has become such a huge issue with Windows 10 that many folks won’t install it, just because they figure Windows 10 is sending all their private information to Microsoft. What do you need to know about Windows 10 privacy issues? In one sense, it’s true that Windows 10 is prying into your privacy – Windows 10 snoops in ways no previous version of Windows ever dared.
If you have Window 10 Pro and Windows 10 version 1703 or later, it’s relatively easy to block those pesky patches by using the pane you see here. Windows 10 Home users can resort to metered connection trickery. For those of you running Windows 10 version 1611 and earlier, you have the sympathies of Windows 10 experts.
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