Must know the Win8.1 details

1. Application close and Win8 "very different"

Dragging the application to the bottom of the screen "let go" is no longer a Win8.1 application close gesture, because Microsoft changed it to the "one-button background palm" (that is, only after the application cut to the background, no longer like Win8 directly closed), and to the Win8.1 to really close the application, "know-how" is to drag the window to the bottom of the screen do not let go, but to stay a few more seconds. In this process, you will find that the mouse has been dragged by the thumbnail to flip to the icon, and once the flip completed, and then let go to represent the application is officially closed.

Figure 1 Drag to the bottom of the screen "let go" is no longer closed!

Figure 2 Stay for a few more seconds, and then let go after the thumbnail is flipped to the icon

Another detail is that if the thumbnail has been flipped into an icon, you can immediately restart the current application by dragging the mouse back to the original area, instead of the one above.

2. Apply Automatic Update

Slightly different from the previous Win8 system, Win8.1 's application update can have two modes, one is to enter the application store, by clicking the Reminder Number Manual update, the other is Win8.1 new, let the operating system to detect and automatically complete the update mode.

To do this, open the Win8.1 App Store, exhale the Charm bar, and click the "settings" → "Apply updates" tab and check the "Automatically update my Apps" checkbox. With this setup, the system automatically detects the latest version of all installed Metro applications and automatically completes the update, and this feature also automatically circumvents the network connection for traffic, without fear of the resulting huge communications costs.

Figure 3 Getting the application to update automatically

3. Touch pad anti-false hit

Notebook Touchpad has a very troublesome problem, that is, the user will be automatically activated when typing to interfere with day-to-day operations. In general, we can solve this problem by installing a third-party software or by disabling the touch pad with an external mouse. But in Win8.1, a simpler process is that you can go into "Computer settings" → "Computers and devices" → "Mouse and touchpad", and modify the "Touchpad delay" on the right to mitigate this interference. Because this option is actually for the touchpad added a "sluggish time", that is, even if the input process mistakenly touched the touchpad, as long as the user is still in high-speed typing status, the touchpad will automatically ignore this "wrong touch", so as to solve this embarrassing little trouble.

Fig. 4 The newly added touch pad

4. Restore the Hibernate button

Compared to sleep and shutdown, hibernation is a more suitable downtime option for notebook users, not only to save power but also to keep the user's current working state as well as sleep. However, by default, this option does not appear in the Win8.1 shutdown menu. To bring the "dormant" to the daylight, the method is very simple, just go to "control Panel" → "Hardware and sound" → "Change the function of the power button", click on the top "change currently unavailable settings", and finally in the lower shutdown settings in front of the "sleep" a tick. ok! finish the work.

Figure 5 Tick "hibernate"

Figure 6 can finally "hibernate" the

5. Low-matching organ animation

Win8.1 Although the cancellation of Aero, can be a variety of gorgeous switching effects still exist. If your computer is too old to run these special effects, the easiest way to do that is to turn them off directly. The specific operation is, first into the "Computer settings" → "Easy to use" → "Other options", and then cancel the visual options in the "Play Animation in Windows" check box.

Of course, like the mobile phone system, even if your computer is enough to support these effects, turning off this option can also make your computer react faster.

Figure 7 Closing the Win8.1 interface animation

6. One-click screenshot

Traditional screenshots usually require four steps, first press the PRTSCR key to complete the screenshot, and then start a graphics editing software (such as painting), then the screenshot in the clipboard paste into the software, and finally click the Save button to generate pictures to complete. In fact, in the Win8.1, you can completely replace the above operation by WIN+PRTSCR, the combination of the key after the screen will be a moment of darkness, and the speaker will be accompanied by a "click", the whole process is like a camera for the screen took a picture, and later you will find in the "My Picture" A new "screen capture" folder is added below, see! is the picture that just stopped lying here?

Figure 8 WIN+PRTSCR implementation of a key screenshot

By the way, for users who don't have a physical keyboard like a tablet, we can do this with the win+ entity key "Volume-" in the virtual keyboard, and the end result is the same as before.

7. Early defensive modules

Win8.1 has built in an early defense module that selectively determines which driver to initialize after system startup. So it's a big advantage to be able to refuse to load suspicious or unknown drivers to keep the system secure. However, by default, this feature does not start, if you want to open the specific step is, press the shortcut key win+r, enter "GPEDIT." MSC to open the local Group Policy Editor. then expand and navigate to "Computer Configuration" → "Administrative Templates" → "system" → "Start anti-Malware early", double-click "Boot Boot driver initialization policy" in the right pane and change it to "enabled".

Figure 9 This is an early defense module that Microsoft never opened

8. Photo Editor

Many people have not noticed that the "photo" application in Win8.1 has a lot of improvement, and the biggest change appears in the editing function. In this version, Microsoft has added a lot of rich image editing functions, such as the usual more common color temperature, brightness, red-eye adjustment, there are daily not how to see the Halo shadow, the background of the virtual module. But the most let the small part of the heart is a "color enhancement" function, use when you just drag the button to any place on the picture, let go and then rotate the pulley, you can quickly adjust the current object range of color saturation. And the biggest difference between it and the traditional adjustment is that the rest of the picture is not going to change.

Figure 10 Very powerful picture editors

9. Hands-Free Paging

This feature can only be used under the system's original "gourmet" application, but it is Win8.1 's bright eye. To put it simply, you need to cook in the kitchen, and in the process you may need to check the menu with a tablet computer. How do you turn the page? Oily hands directly turned the screen must be dirty, do not flip ￥% ... ￥......& you take the tablet to the kitchen. So the "good" Win8.1 developed this feature, allowing users to wave in front of the camera to achieve "paging", of course, you need to first click on the "Hands-free" button to do.

Fig. 11 It's so easy to flip through the empty pages!

Written in the last

Because of the time relationship, Xiao Bian is only a superficial study of the Win8.1 of the most easily overlooked some of the details. Although these details have never been written to the official update log, they are really handy to use. And because of the short time to market, these are clearly just the tip of the iceberg of Win8.1 's huge changes, however, the so-called alone Lele as the public lele, good things to share with everyone is the most carefree, if you have a similar "small crowd skills", may also be in the article below the message, I believe that in the joint efforts of everyone, Win8.1 will make people more comfortable!