Windows 8.1 Application Tips 3

Closing and Restarting Win 8.1 Applications

In Window 8, close the Modern style application by dragging them to the bottom of the screen & ldquo; Discard & rdquo; (As shown below), but after updating to Windows 8.1, the same operation just hangs them back to the background, not closed.
In Win8 is to close the application, Win8.1 just hangs

To completely close the application in Windows 8.1, you need to hover the app to the bottom of the screen and hover for a while, wait until the main interface of the application The thumbnail is rotated and converted to the application tile icon and then released (as shown below), so that it is closed.
This is to completely close the application

The above operation to completely shut down the Windows 8.1 application should be known to many users, but you may not know, when the application thumbnail is rotated into an icon and then re- If you drag up, you can restart the app.
Do not release but drag up again to restart the application

If you need to restart when running Win8.1 application, you can do it by doing the above without having to close and start from the start screen. Started up.

Avoid applying automatic updates

Windows 8.1 adds the ability to apply automatic updates, but sometimes you don't want it to be an updated application. If you want to turn off automatic updates and return to the Windows 8 manual update mode, you can change the following settings.

Start the Windows Store first, then call the Charm bar, click Settings ——Apply Update;
Change Automatic Updates from here

Then apply the Updates page on the Updates page. Update my app & rdquo; option to “no”
Turn off app auto-updates

When changed, when there is a new version of the app available, a digital cue that updates the app will still appear in the bottom right corner of the app’s tile.
Back to Windows 8 update tips

Quickly find newly installed applications

Another minor change in Windows 8.1 is that newly installed applications do not automatically generate magnetic on the start screen. Post, this requires us to add it manually. When you have more and more applications, how can you quickly find a newly installed application? Just follow the steps below.

When you find an application of interest and the installation is complete, first click on the small arrow icon at the bottom left of the start screen (or touch the screen to slide up) to switch to the application list view;
Click here to switch to the application view < Br>

Then change the classification method to “by installation date"; so the newly installed app will appear in the first one, and will be additionally displayed on the right side of the newly installed app icon <;new” The words are used to help the user confirm that this is the new application just installed.
Change the sorting method to find a new application

Locate the newly installed app and fix it to the start screen. Right click (or press and hold the app on the touch screen) to open the lower command bar and click “ Go to the start screen & rdquo;.

Finally, return to the start screen and move the new tile to the location you want.
Fix the newly installed application tile to the start screen

Ok, here are the three tips related to Windows 8.1 application, I hope to help you in your daily use.