Really understand Win8? 11 Win8 details you ignored (2)

Compared with Win7, Win8's driver library is more large, including more popular new hardware. And one of the more interesting changes is that a lot of hardware has been added to the real-life photos, for example, you can now find the same photo icon in your Win 8 as your U disk, which looks more eye-catching and intuitive. Of course, the hardware must be in advance. Certified by Microsoft.

Figure 7 Real-world hardware

Details 4. Image unlocking

Users familiar with Android must be very familiar with the graphics unlock, yes, android first launched this feature At the time, it was a sensation. In Win8, a feature called "Picture passWord" is an upgraded version.

Picture passWord is actually a picture specified by the user, and then set three operations in the three positions of the picture according to the prompt, the action and the landing point of the mouse constitute the unlock condition. Since the position and the action are completely irregular, the encryption is theoretically much safer than the password, and the probability of being cracked is almost zero.

Figure 8 Create picture password

Details 5. Upgrade address bar

Maybe you will say that Ribbon is the biggest point of Win8 window, as for other functions with Win7 The system is not much different. In fact, while saying this, you have actually missed a very useful improvement of Win8 - the address bar can be operated.

Generally, we will use drag and drop to copy files to the upper level or upper level folder, but in fact, in Win7, you can only select the destination folder through the tree directory on the left, if the current directory The location is very deep, I am sorry, either you press the left button while the first level is activated, or directly by copy and paste method, it is not so happy anyway. In Win8, the above operation can be simplified directly to dragging a file to a node on the address bar. Note that the address bar will automatically follow the prompts to pop up different prompts (Move or Copy). Don't think that this operation looks very simple, it really won't work in Win7, don't believe you try!

Figure 9 Operational Address Bar

Details 6. Mixed Startup

Many test articles are claiming that Win8 starts much faster than Win7, but why are you? Win8 startup in the computer is not a force? In fact, the reason why Win8 starts up quickly is all thanks to a function called “hybrid boot”. Only when we check “Control Panel→All Control Panel Items→Power Options→Choose what closing the liddoes” panel The Hybrid Boot checkbox is required to enable this technology. Under the guidance of this technology, Win8 saves some kernel dialogs that should be closed to a disk file named hiberfil.sys, and writes the contents directly back to the memory at the next boot, thus improving the system startup speed. And this is the same as the "hybrid shutdown Hiber Shutdown" of the year.

Figure 10 Hybrid Boot Options

Details 7. Interesting Split Screens

In fact, since the Win7 era, Microsoft has been thinking about big screen users. At that time, a quick split screen function called Aero Snap has been familiar to many netizens. When we need to display two windows side by side, we only need to drag two windows to the leftmost and rightmost edges of the screen. After releasing the hand, each window will automatically occupy 50% of the screen space, thus achieving the effect of split screen viewing.

In Win8, the split screen function goes one step further. As long as your screen resolution is higher than 1366×768 (low resolution users can also be forced to open through the registry), then you can directly experience it. . Just hover your mouse over the left edge of the screen and find another window that has already been launched. Hold down the mouse and drag the window from left to right. You will see the thumbnail of the window grows from small to large and will eventually be new. The window is fixed to a certain position.

Figure 11 Win8 split screen effect

The reason why Win8 split screen is further improved, on the one hand, because the size of each split screen can be adjusted by the user drag and drop the mouse in real time, another On the one hand, the "desktop" is the first time to participate as a disposable element (that is, you can also open several sub-windows on the desktop, in fact, there are already some virtual machine flavors ~), which makes it include video, games, animation, web pages. Almost all desktop elements can be re-screened by the system, far more flexible and comprehensive than Win7.

Figure 12 After adjusting the split screen position (Win8 smart narrows the left side of the element)