Windows 8.1 New features detailed

Personalized

Optional local or stored photos in SkyDrive as lock screen wallpaper, and can be displayed as a slideshow.

Theme colors are completely adjustable: You can choose any selection in the full color spectrum, and you can select colors for backgrounds and themes alone.

More Start screen backgrounds, which also contain dynamic wallpaper.

You can use desktop wallpaper as the background for the start screen.

Active magnetic Paste

New Tile Size: oversized (2x2 times of normal size) and ultra small size, the weather, calendar, mailbox and other systems built in the application and Third-party applications can be selected.

The tile background color of the desktop application will be based on the main color of the software icon, no longer unified.

Adjust the active magnetic paste method: Press and drag the tile to resize, reorder, uninstall, you can select multiple tiles at the same time batch processing.

All Applications List

The new way to access the list of applications: 1, Touch: From the beginning of the screen from the bottom up slide; 2, mouse: Click out of the beginning screen now the lower left corner of the downward arrow; 3, set the Start screen in system settings to display the list of applications directly.

New sorting options: You can filter, sort by name, installation date, most commonly used, type.

When you download and install an application from Windows store, instead of placing it directly on your start screen, Windows 8.1 will be placed on the "all apps" screen and labeled "New", and you can choose to have the application on the Start screen.

Snap View

4 applications can be shown by side (depending on the screen resolution)

Adjust the size of the application window in the snap view at random

One application can open multiple windows at the same time, and display

No longer limit the minimum screen resolution

When you open another application from one application, the system will automatically adjust these two applications (for example, open the photos from the mail, then mail application and photo album application will be displayed in 6:4 proportion, from the mail to open the site, then mail application and IE will be displayed in 5:5 proportion)

PC Settings

The metro version of the PC Setup can see all of the device's settings, no need to go to the Control Panel on the desktop.

Search

Search results from Bing and third party apps (e.g., Bing images, Wikipedia, Bing News, local media, Xbox Music, apps, etc.)

Customizing search results (for example, filtering for photos in search results based on color)

Full Screen view

Both at the start screen and on the desktop, you can use the "windows+s" shortcut key to open search Charm.