Windows 8.1 desktop properties detailed

According to many reports, Windows 8.1 will support users to boot directly to the traditional desktop when booting, so completely skip the temporarily unfamiliar "start screen", now there is a new screenshot It shows that Microsoft's new system not only uses this traditional function as a system option, but also provides a richer set of customization settings.

As shown in the figure, "Taskbar and Navigation properties" is one of the tabs "Navigation", we can see that this location is a lot of Windows. 8 new custom feature options.

Let's take a look at Corner navigation. In this category, three settings for the Charm bar are provided:

- the first item is "When the mouse moves to the upper right corner of the screen, does it show settings such as search, share, and start";

- The second item is "When the mouse moves to the upper left corner of the screen, whether to switch to the recently opened application";

- The third item is "When the mouse is at the bottom left of the screen" When using the right button, or when you press ‘Win+x’, use Windows PowerShell instead of the command prompt. ”

Next, take a look at the freshest "Start screen", there is an option here:

- The first item is "When booting, Whether to go directly to the desktop instead of the start screen 

- The second item is "When the screen is in the start screen, the background used is the desktop background";

- the third item Yes “ When you press ‘Win’, always open the start screen>;

- The fourth item is “When you enter the start screen, it will automatically display ‘all apps’ Interface”;

- The fifth item is "Enter ‘All apps & rsquo; interface to enable any search, not just search for applications";

- The six items are “Enter the & lsquo; all applications & rsquo; interface, first list the traditional desktop application & rdquo;.

Windows 8.1 will be officially released at the BUILD 2013 Developer Conference in late June, when Microsoft will detail all the details of all of the above features, as to whether it will change.