Win 8 operating system guide

After installing Win 8, what should I do next? You must get used to using this new operating system, because it will not be long before your boss, friend or family will expect you to do something serious with it. This guide is for this purpose. We'll show you how to get back to the desktop, how to change the Windows settings, what fancy touchscreen gestures it has, and how to use the mouse and keyboard without a touchscreen. In other words, we will tell you: in Win 8, how do you go where you want to go, so that you can get into work as soon as possible.

Basic Gestures

The main interface of Win 8 looks a bit like the interface of a smartphone. You can also manipulate it like a smartphone. Win 8 also has a lock screen interface: a beautiful picture, no specific buttons, it seems a little impossible to start. So the first gesture that needs to be mastered is to slide up and unlock the lock screen. If you are using a mouse or trackpad, press any key or click the mouse.

Then you enter the "Start" screen and see a bunch of dynamic tiles. Each tile corresponds to a software or application. Touch any of them and you can open this app. You can also hold it down and drag it to any position. If you feel that you are already fed up with the new Win 8 interface and want to go back to the desktop you're used to, you can do this by clicking on the Desktop tile. Mouse or trackpad: Click to open the app and click and drag the tile. Keyboard: Windows + D, immediately back to the desktop.

On the &Startquo;start” screen, swipe down any tile, and you can select it and open a menu to use it to unload, unpin, resize, and more. You can select and unpin multiple tiles at the same time. Use your mouse or touchpad: Right click on the tile.

On the "Start" screen, or in the app, a single finger can be scrolled on the screen to achieve scrolling. When two fingers are pinched together, you can zoom out. "Start" A view of all applications on the screen. Use the two fingers to swipe on the trackpad, or use the mouse to scroll through the pages. You can also hold down the Ctrl key and use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

When you are in a program (such as IE), swipe down from the top of the screen, or swipe up from the bottom of the screen to open a menu (the program will be different and the menu will be different). In IE, there will be an open webpage tab at the top, and there will be a "back" > forward & rdquo; & "refresh" button and URL address bar at the bottom. Use your mouse or touchpad: Right-click in a blank space (anywhere you don't activate other features). Keyboard: Windows + Z.

Drag from the top of the screen to the location to close an application, mouse or trackpad: click and drag. Keyboard: Alt + F4.

Swipe left from the right side of the screen to activate the Charms menu. With this adoption, you can quickly search or share, send files to a device (such as a printer), or access computer settings. Mouse or trackpad: The cursor moves to the top right or bottom right corner and the Charms menu appears. Keyboard: Windows + C.

Touch the “Start” button in the Charms menu, or press the Windows button on your keyboard to return to the &Startquo;Start” screen. Mouse or trackpad: Move the cursor to the lower left corner and click.

Multitasking

If you have several apps open, swipe from the left edge of the screen to the right, you can pull them one by one. You can slide again and they will loop. Mouse and touchpad: Place the cursor in the upper left corner and click on the small image that appears there. Keyboard Windows + Tab.

Swipe from the left edge to the right and then to the left to open the app switcher. Mouse or touchpad. Move the cursor to the upper left corner and drag it along the left edge.

If you have multiple apps open and want to display two of them on the screen at the same time, you can do this by dragging an app from the left edge, dragging it to the left or right side of the screen, and holding it down. Form a smaller view. Or you can slide down from the top of the screen just as you would when you close the app, then place it on the left or right side of the screen. Use the mouse or touchpad: Click and drag from the top left corner, or in the app switcher, right-click on an app's thumbnail.

Drag the three-dot divider to make the smaller of the two apps larger, or make the larger one smaller; Keyboard: Windows + Period Key.

When you use multiple apps and multiple desktops at the same time, things get a bit tricky. Desktop apps don't appear in the app switcher. If you have a keyboard, it's more convenient: press Alt + Tab to switch between Win 8 applications and traditional programs.

Convenient keyboard shortcuts

Windows + H = Open “Share"Super Buttons

Windows + I = Open “Set"Super Buttons

Windows + K = Open “Devices> Super Buttons

Windows + Q = Search Apps

Windows + F = Search Files

Windows + W = Search Windows Settings

Windows + X = Enter common management tools (or right click in the lower left corner)

Windows + E = Run File Manager in Desktop Environment

Windows + O = Lock screen orientation

Windows + R = Open & ldquo; Run & rdquo; Dialog

Windows + L = Lock Computer

Windows + Print Screen = Save screenshot To your picture> Screenshot folder

Windows + 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 any key = Run the corresponding program to lock to the taskbar

Ctrl + Shift + Esc = Open Task Manager

How to find things

Now that you know how to navigate in Win 8, how do you find it? What do you want? You can use the "Search" super button in the Charms menu of Win 8, which is quite powerful. You can search by typing something anywhere on the "start" screen. Then change the search type to get different types of search results.

For example, if you want to listen to a song, you can search for a local file first. If it is not in the local file, you can click on “Music” to search for Xbox Music. If it has not been found yet, Just click IE for a web search. It doesn't have to leave the search bar. In fact, you can also search for apps here, from the location in the map and weather app, to the stock in the financial application, to the name of the new app in the Windows Store app store.