The most important features of Windows 10 

(explanation of 8 great features that you will like a lot)

Windows 10 (10 Windows) is one of the most amazing recent releases in the world of operating systems, which was introduced by Microsoft.

This version of Windows 10 came with a major and essential goal from Microsoft, which is to re-enter the fierce competition with the other pole, Apple, especially after the failure that Windows 8 encountered with versions 8 and 8.1.

It is worth noting that Windows 10, which Microsoft launched on July 29, 2015, has achieved a great deal of success, and this success culminated in obtaining 14 million purchases and its installed in 24 hrs just only one day.

In fact, Windows 10 deserves its success, as it represents a great leap in the history of Microsoft.

In this article, we will review together the most important features of Windows 10, which will help you as a user to make the best possible use of it.

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The 8 most important features in Windows 10

1. Return the Start Menu

Microsoft has finally brought back the Start Menu, which you can access by clicking on the Windows sign in the far left of the screen at the bottom.

After the great annoyance of users as a result of the absence of the Start menu in Windows 8 and 8.1 Windows, this feature returned again in Windows 10.

The START menu is no longer just for accessing the most recently opened applications, key files, and applications installed on your PC.

It also includes Metro boxes, where you can customize them and display your favorite videos and photos, and also add files, folders and applications that you prefer to access quickly from the list.

You will also find a calendar icon and a feature to know the weather, which is automatically updated without any user interaction.

You can install metro tiles, change their size, change the menu color in general, customize and arrange their items, and delete unwanted items while adding others in their place.

Finally, you will find the traditional Power button with three options, the first option is to put the device into sleep mode, the second option is to shut down the device completely, and the third option is to restart.

Start Menu Window10

2. Cortana integration

In Windows 10, Microsoft added the digital voice assistant Cortana to desktop computers, in order to facilitate the user's interaction with his device without lifting a finger.

Cortana can search your hard drive for a specific file, search for an image on a specific date, or play PowerPoint presentations just by telling your computer just the name of the file, and Cortana can send email, making multitasking even easier.

You can activate this feature by pressing start, then press the setting button above the power button.

The settings window will appear in front of you, choose Cortana and start setting. (If Cortana does not appear within the settings in the window, use the search rectangle at the top to access it, as shown in the image below.

Cortana settings

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3. The new great browser Microsoft Edge

Microsoft has replaced the historic Internet Explorer browser with Microsoft Edge, which features a new rendering engine called Edge HTML, also integrated with the Edge browser.

Users using the Edge browser can make an Add Note comment for web pages, and these commented pages are stored on OverDrive and can be used with other users and sent via email.

 

Microsoft Edge also has a feature to show text only in web pages in order to allow easier reading on devices, especially devices with small screens.

In general, many modifications were made and a lot of features were added to the Edge browser, to become one of the powerful and competitive Internet browsers.

4. More advanced media players

Windows 10 came with 3 great players for photos, music, and videos:

photos: It is a wonderful and easy-to-use photo player, through which you can make minor improvements and modifications to photos in terms of lighting and contrast to make them better. It also has the ability to write on photos.

Groove Music: a more than wonderful music player with a lot of great features and capabilities, you can add all your music files to it, and then make special lists and play them in order or randomly.

You can easily access your files inside it and access the files you have played recently.

Movies & TV: The video player that I especially love, such as the music player. You can add all the video folders inside and arrange them, access them all in an easy and simple way, and move between them with all three and simply, it has the feature to advance the video 30 seconds or delay it 10 seconds.

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5. Support for touch screen devices

Windows 10 now supports touch screen computers as fully as a mobile phone.

Windows 10 also has many tactile suggestions that allow users to do a lot via the laptop’s touchpad, where you can use two-finger swipe to “Zoom” or two-finger pinch to show the drop-down menu that appears when you press the right mouse button, or three-finger press up to show current tasks And down to display the desktop and others.

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6. Task View

A genius new feature from Windows 10, this feature enables you to easily access the tasks you are already doing right now, and switch between them with ease and ease.

It also enables you to access the tasks you have done recently through a deviceyour computer. This great feature provides a comprehensive history of the tasks you have performed on your computer for the last thirty days.

And not only that, this genius feature enables you to create more than one Desktop, in each of them you can perform completely different tasks.

This feature is similar to the fact that you are using an infinite number of separate computers. Don't get confused, let me explain the idea to you with an easy example:

Imagine with me a designer working on 4 projects for 4 different companies, besides using his device for a personal purpose (playing music on Groove, checking from time to time his social media accounts).

Windows 10 allows this designer to open a desktop for each project separately, and open whatever programs and folders he wants inside this desktop, so he has 5 desktops.

And he can move between them with ease, and also move between tasks in each of them, and he can also move tasks from one desktop to another.

To access this feature, press the Task View button to the right of the start button at the bottom of the screen towards the left and start preparing the desktops as you want.

In the image above, the Task View window appears in front of you. At the top, you will find a bar that contains five desktops, and on the far right there is a + sign to add more.

When you stand with the mouse (without clicking) on ​​any desktop, the open tasks will appear in large rectangles as it is clear in front of you (there are three tasks in Desktop 1 which are Photoshop, Google Chrome, and Google Chrome application to open one web page).

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7. New keyboard shortcuts

Windows 10 has added a number of cool shortcuts that you can use on the keyboard to make it easier and faster to work on the computer:

Windows key: Opens the Start menu.

Windows key + Right or Up or Down or Left: To control the open app, you can move it to the right in a portrait screen, to the left.

Windows key + Ctrl key + Left Or Right: Cycles between the desktops you are working on.

Windows key + Ctrl key + D: Opens a new desktop.

Windows Key + Ctrl key + C: Listen to Cortana.

Windows Key + S: To start the search.

Windows Key + Ctrl key +F4: Close the desktop you are currently working on (ie the open one).

8. Search feature

Windows 10 has added a separate search feature in the Start menu, where you can quickly search your device for applications or files.

You can also perform a search on the Internet directly (via Bing search engine), and it keeps your recent search commands so that it is easier for you to search in the future. This feature is related to Cortana, so it can be searched either by typing or by voice.

To access it, right-click on the Windows icon in the far left at the bottom of the screen, then choose Search.

You can also install a search rectangle next to the Windows sign by right-clicking in the Taskbar (the black bar at the bottom of the screen), then choose Cortana, the second option, and three options will appear in front of you, choose the “Show search box”.

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