Fifteen practical tips for the Win8 system

The Windows8 consumer preview system has been released for a week. Since the Windows 8 operating system has a very large adjustment compared to the previous Windows version of the system, there will inevitably be some use. Habit, the following system paradise
to talk about the use of Windows 8 skills:

1: Shutdown

This question is a bit funny, but some friends do not Know that Windows 8 will change the start menu to the metro interface, and the shutdown button will also disappear. We can use the following methods to achieve shutdown:

A. Alt+F4: Shortcut, press Alt under Windows interface +F4 will pop up the shutdown menu

B. Win+I: Open "Settings", select the power button to shut down, sleep, etc.

C. Desktop creation shortcut, desktop right button new - shortcut Shut down and enter shutdown.exe -s -t 00. If you restart, enter shutdown.exe -r -t 00, right-click shortcut property, replace display icon

D. Metro interface to add shutdown button, upper content Set up a shutdown on the desktop After the shortcut, right click and choose fixed to the "Start" screen you can see in the Metro interface.

2: Close the Metro application

A. Press Alt+F4 in the Metro program that opens again to close the program. . . . . . Alt+F4 is the best artifact

B. Move the mouse to the top of the screen to move the mouse to the top of the screen. When the mouse arrow changes to “small hand”, click and drag down to the bottom of the screen. Let go.

3: Multi-task switching

Multi-tasking switching in Windows 8 is very convenient. Move the mouse to the upper left of the screen to display the thumbnail of the preferred application in the background. You can also scroll down to display the full daemon thumbnail.

4: Searching everywhere

There is no doubt that the search in Windows 8 is more powerful, just a shortcut to search, and in the Metro interface you can directly enter the search content. Search

Win+Q: Search for "Apps"

Win+F: Search for "Files"

Win+W: Search for "Settings"

5 :Charms sidebar

Windows 8 introduces the Charms sidebar, you can move the mouse to the lower right corner to pop up on the right side, or press the shortcut key Win+C to pop up, it will display the date and time and search, share, set Waiting for menus, very convenient

6: Quick start taskbar program

Windows 8 uses many applications of Windows 7, such as the operation on the taskbar can still be used, the program is fixed to the taskbar After that, press Win+ corresponding number key shortcut to start quickly. For example, the first one in IE10, press Win+1 to start

7: Change the taskbar folder to open the computer

The folder that is locked on the taskbar is opened by default. Many friends will not get used to it. We can also modify the right-click Explorer property in the taskbar folder. Replace the target column with "%windir%\\explorer.exe," and you can include no quotation marks, including commas. Space, then apply.

8: Adjust the input box size of the input method

Right-click the input method at the bottom right corner to open the input method input option. In the Appearance tab, modify the font size in the appearance and confirm.

9: MetroIE Open Desktop IE

This is caused by setting the default browser. Set IE as the default browser to restore Metro interface IE to Metro version IE

10: MetroIE webpage opens with desktop version IE

If you want to open the current webpage through desktop browser when browsing webpage in MetroIE, click the tool button in the lower right corner to select “View on desktop”
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11: Change user avatar

After logging in with MicrosoftID, the default avatar may be smaller, the display will be blurred, you can modify the large resolution avatar in the Metro settings panel, you can also modify the lock screen wallpaper and start. Screen color matching (change the avatar can be clicked on the avatar in the upper right corner of the Metro interface to change the avatar to enter)

12: Remove the "Start" screen useless button

After installing the program, there will be "Start" screen A lot of unneeded shortcuts (in fact, we just want to leave a program just fine). Other useless shortcuts can be un-fixed from the "Start" screen by right-clicking on the batch and clicking on the bottom left. Can be deleted (the deleted shortcut can still be found in all programs)

13: MSE in Windows8

After installing Windows 8, you can't install it if you install MSE again. Because Windows 8 already comes with Windows Defender, including MSE function, so there is no need to install it, of course, you can also install other anti-virus software to enhance protection, there is no conflict.

14: “Start” screen grouping

You can also name each group in the start screen. The operation method is very simple. Click “Minimize” at the bottom right of the “Start” screen, then right click any A set of click changes can be named, and after the modification is successful, you can see it in the "Start" screen.

15: Robbin in Explorer

The Explorer menu interface in Windows 8 has been changed to Robbin interface, which we have seen in Office before, can be hidden or displayed. Double-click on the tab name to hide it and display more content (can be popped up when the mouse is clicked)