Win8 App & App Store

At the moment Win8 opens, those flipped "squares" will surely attract everyone's attention, which is an important part of Win8 ——Win8 application.

In the Win8 system, the Win8 application is a topic that cannot be skipped anyway. These applications can bring great convenience to users in daily use, and also make the office more flexible. With the Win8 app, users can experience apps on tablets and phones with traditional controls on traditional PCs, and even continue work that was previously unfinished on the tablet.

Use of the Windows Store

Since Win8 apps need to be obtained from the Windows Store, let's take a look at how the Windows Store will work.

After Win8 is installed, the app store will be installed by default. You can find the tile of the app store in the system's "Start screen" and click to enter.

Windows App Store Tiles

In the app store, we’ll find that Microsoft divides apps into games, social, music and video, productivity, security, tools, education, The government has 20 major categories. There is also a “Boutique Focus” section that brings together the current hot apps. Entering any of the big categories, we can see the rich applications below.

20 application categories

There is one thing to note here, maybe some netizens see the above picture and find that the application in their own app store is not as good as the author. In fact, some need to be done here. Settings.

Swipe the mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen to bring up the Charm bar and select Settings. Click on “Preferences” to adjust both options to “no”, so the system will not filter So that all the applications can be rendered.

Preferences are set to “No”

Of course, the Windows Store also supports the App Search feature, which is the first to bring up the Charm bar and then see the Search button.

In the Windows Store, we can view apps that have already been purchased, and they can be installed on up to five other computers. In addition, in the account settings for the setup options, we can also set up payment information to purchase paid apps in the store.

Application Search

These are the most commonly used parts of the Windows Store. With such a software repository, we can pick and choose which applications we like to install and use.

Installation, Uninstall and Update of Win8 Applications

We have already introduced the normal operation of the Windows Store, so the installation of Win8 application is a natural thing.

We can browse the app store or search for the app you want, go to the specific app interface, and click Install. Everything is as simple as that, we don't need to choose the installation path, and we don't have to click “> next”, the system will automatically download and install the application.

Click Install to automatically download and install

The installed app will be directly in the form of a tile "nail" on the Win8 start screen, then everyone can customize the tile The display mode, the reasonable layout can make the start screen more beautiful and easy to use.

Right click on the application tile and we will see a toolbar pop up at the bottom of the screen. Generally, there will be two options: “Unpin from Start Screen” and “Uninstall”. As the name implies, the former can prevent the application from appearing on the start screen, while the latter can uninstall the application.

Tile Settings Toolbar

Note that unpinned apps can still be found in “all apps" and redisplayed on the start screen instead of being uninstalled Apps can also be reinstalled in the app store's  your app" and do not have to be purchased again.

In addition to “unfix from start screen" & "uninstall", there are some applications that will appear when right clicking "Zoom out (zoom in)" & "turn off dynamic tile” Options. The size of the tile can be adjusted by “zoom out (zoom in)”, and the dynamic tile option can display the content of the app in real time.

Purchased Apps

Finally, let's talk about application updates. The app store automatically retrieves the latest version of the app while the computer is online. When a new version of the app is detected, it will be displayed directly on the tile of the app store, and the number of updates will be indicated. The user will know that there is an app update at a glance.

Enter the app store, then click the “update” word in the upper right corner to go directly to the app update interface, select the app you want to update, select the “install" button to start the automatic update. The operation is very simple.

Application Update Interface