Windows 8 getting started and detailed tutorial

 

1. Lock screen
After the screen is started, you will first see the screen lock page of Windows 8. The screen lock will appear whenever the system starts, recovers, or logs on. If you are using a touch screen device, scan your finger and enter your password to log on to the system. If it is not a touch screen device, you can log on to the system by clicking the mouse.

2. Metro main screen
After a user logs on to Windows 8, the new Metro startup screen will appear, and the tile-type program will appear. Of course, if you do not like an application, you can also right-click it to remove it, and re-arrange the location of the application according to your preferences.

3. Simplified Start menu
The Metro user interface has its own Start menu, which contains some simple options, such as settings, devices, sharing, and search.

4. Run any program
Press the Windows key or press Win + F to open the search window. Enter the program name to open the specified application.

5. Task switching
The Metro screen does not have the taskbar, so you can easily find the running applications. In this case, you only need to press the Alt + Tab key to view the running applications, press and hold the Win + Tab key to switch from a running application to the next application.

6. Close the application
The Metro application does not contain a "close" button. In fact, this is a deliberate design by Microsoft. When another application is running, the current application will be suspended, when resources are insufficient, the system automatically closes the application.

Of course, you can also manually close the application, press Ctrl + Alt + Esc to open the Task Manager, right-click the redundant application and choose to terminate the task.

7. Shut down the system

If you want to disable the system on the Metro interface, you only need to bring up the setting dialog box, click the power button, and then close it. Of course, if you are on the desktop, you can also press Alt + F4 and choose to disable, restart, switch between users, or log out.

8. Metro Internet Explorer
Click the IE Metro pane and a full screen browser will appear. It is a touch-friendly browser, and mouse users also have some advantages: right-click to pin the website to the Metro Screen, for example, open a new browser tag or switch to the old one.

Of course, if you prefer the old IE interface, you only need to start IE on the desktop, or press the Windows key and press 1.

9. Multi-screen display

Normally, the Metro application runs in full screen mode, but if you are running a touch screen device, you can also view two applications at the same time.

10. Query weather

In general, many bound Metro applications can be reconfigured by right-clicking. By default, the weather application displays the weather in the city of anhaheim, Calif.. To view local weather, right-click to add a city and type the name of the nearest city.

11. Spelling check
All Metro applications have the spelling check function, similar to Office. Once an error occurs, a red-colored underline is displayed below the offending word. Right-click the word to see the suggested alternative word. You can also add the word to your dictionary.

12. Run as Administrator
Some applications can only run with the administrator permission. You only need to right-click the application, click "Advanced", and select the "run as administrator" option.

13. Sleep or sleep
By default, sleep or sleep options are not displayed in the Windows 8 close dialog box, but you can restore them.

Start the Power Option Program (powercfg. cpl), click "select power button running status" in the left-side pane. If you see the "change current unavailable" link, click it and select "sleep or sleep, click Save settings, and the "sleep" option will appear in the close dialog box.

14. Automatic logon
Tired of logging on to Windows 8 manually? The following describes how to automatically log on to Windows 8: press the Windows key, press R, type netplwiz, and then press the Enter key to start the User Account dialog box. Clear the "user must enter the user name and password to use this computer" check box and click "OK.

15. Windows shortcut keys in Windows 8
Although the Windows Metro user interface is mainly designed for touch screens, it supports most of the old Windows shortcut keys.

Win + C: displays Charms, such as settings, devices, shares, and searches;

Win + D: Start the desktop;

Win + E: Start the resource manager;

Win + F: open search;

Win + I: open the settings;

Win + L: lock your computer;

Win + P: switch your monitor to the second monitor or projector;

Win + R: Open the running box;

Win + U: Open the easy access center;

Win + W: Search for your system settings;

Win + Z: when a full screen Metro application is opened, right-click the context menu;

Win +: Zoom in;

Win-: zoom out;

16. Quickly start the application
If you are used to keyboard devices and do not want to scroll to find the desired applications, do not worry. Windows 8 also supports an old-fashioned shortcut.

Open the desktop, start the media player, right-click its taskbar icon, and choose to fix this program to the taskbar. Close the media player, drag its taskbar icon to the leftmost, and press the taskbar button next to it, and then press the Windows key again to switch to the Metro user interface.

Press the Windows key and press 1. You will see the desktop and the media player is started. Of course, you can also press Windows + 2 or 3 to start the second (IE by default) or third icon (task manager by default ).

17. View all installed applications

The Start menu is no longer displayed in Windows 8, which means that users cannot easily see all non-Metro applications in the system. Unless you press the Windows + F key to view the search dialog box, you will see a list of installed applications in alphabetical order and click to start it.

18. Shutdown shortcuts

The quickest way to shut down a desktop application is to start the desktop application with a proper shortcut, right-click the blank area on the desktop, and click create shortcut.

If you input shutdown.exe-s-t 00, the computer is disabled;

The input shutdown.exe-h-t 00 is a sleep computer;

Click next, enter a shortcut name, and click finish.

19. Restore the Start menu

If you do not like the Metro user interface, you can restore it to a more traditional Windows appearance by starting REGEDIT (Registry), browsing to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer, and double-clicking RPEnabled, then, set the parameter value from 1 to 0 to remove Metro, new taskbar, and new Start menu.

In addition, setting the RPEnabled parameter value to 2 is to remove Metro, restore the Start menu, and retain most of the other improvements in Windows 8.

20. Start the Metro application from the desktop

Spending most of the time on the desktop does not mean that the Metro application is abandoned and a folder named "application" is created on the desktop, open it and you will find every application icon and other Windows applets on the Metro Screen. If you want to open a specific Metro application, open this folder and double-click the application icon.

Win + Tab: switch between opened applications.

21. Install Windows 8 on a self-USB flash drive
If you want to install Windows 8 OS instead of a DVD on a USB flash drive, the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool will help you. You can direct the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool to the Windows 8 ISO file, and then it will be able to create a startup Windows 8 installer on the USB drive.

22. SmartScreen
All Windows 8 systems use the SmartScreen security feature of IE. Check the downloaded files to ensure their security. However, if the user does not want the smartscreenfunction, you can also adjust it. Press the Windows Firewall rkey to access control.exe, and press enter to start the old control panel.

Open the Action Center Panel and click "Change SmartScreen settings". In this way, you can enable the alarm to avoid disturbing yourself or directly disable the SmartScreen function.

23. 64-bit IE
If you are using 64-bit Windows 8, its IE copy runs in 64-bit mode, but you need to manually enable it.

Click tool Internet option security, select the security region you want to adjust, select start 64-bit mode, click OK, and restart.

24. Virtual machines
After Windows 8 is installed, you can also obtain Microsoft's Hyper-V virtual function, which allows you to create and run virtual machines. Start optionalfeatures.exe, check Hyper-V, and click OK to enable the Hyper-V function.

Switch to the Metro user interface and slide to the Hyper-V tile on the right to start exploring this function.

25. Early launch of anti-malware

After Windows 8 is started, it can selectively decide which driver to initialize, refuse to load suspicious or unknown drivers to protect your computer from infection.

However, you need to manually start the anti-malware function to start GPEDIT. MSC, browse to the computer configuration management template system to start malware early, double-click to start the initialization driver installation policy on the right side, and select the option you want.

Of course, I would like to remind you that if this anti-malware accidentally blocks a legitimate driver, your system may crash.

26. Windows 8 file history

Windows 8 provides a good File history function that backs up any user-selected files.

27. USB drive
Connect the USB drive to the Windows 8 system and select "configure this drive to back up the file history" from the menu. By default, the user's library, contacts, favorites, and desktop content will be immediately backed up.

28. Control panel
When you click the new Metro control panel tile, the Windows 8 custom process begins. For example, click personalization to change your screen lock Image. Click the "user" tile at the top of the screen to change the image representing your account.

29. Image password
Windows 8 allows you to create an image password, select an image, and drag the image above to draw a combination of wavy lines, straight lines, and circles. After that, only people who can reproduce this mode can log on to the system.

Click "control panel" to create an image password.

30. Simplified search
By default, Windows 8 contains each bound application in its search results. If you do not want to see some applications, click control panel on the Metro screen and select search, select the application you do not want to see. In this way, the user list will be easier to manage.

31. Touch keyboard
By default, the touch-type keyboard is very beneficial to users. For example, when a user inputs a sound, the first letter at the beginning of each sentence is automatically adjusted to uppercase, double-click the space key to set aside space. If you do not like a function, enter the control panel custom keyboard to meet your needs.

32. Selective synchronization
Windows 8 can synchronize settings across every system. This sounds good, but it can easily lead to privacy issues. It will synchronize internet history and passwords. If this does not meet your needs, you can customize synchronization from the Metro control panel, click synchronize PC settings, and select your preferred options.

33. Complete control panel
Press the Windows Firewall rkey and enter control.exe and press enter to open a complete control panel.

34. Windows 8 Resource Manager
Today, Windows 8 Explorer contains a Ribbon user interface.

35. Hide Ribbon
If you think ribbon occupies too much space, the following is how to hide ribbon: press the Windows + R key and enter gpedit. msc press enter and click Computer Configuration Management template Windows component Windows resource manager.

Double-click "minimize ribbon to start Windows Resource Manager" to enable this function.

36. Quick access to the toolbar
The latest Resource Manager provides a quick access toolbar feature that allows you to easily access options such as "create folder", "minimize", and "undelete.

37. Disk error check
When a drive error is checked, Windows 8 also provides an additional option, one is the scan drive option, and the other is the new scan and repair option, it can solve all problems in the computer.

38. Improved file replication
Copy the file in the resource manager and you will be able to see an enhanced dialog box that provides more information. If there is a problem, you can click the pause button to suspend the file for a period of time. If there is a conflict, you can decide which files to retain or cancel.

39. Mount the ISO file in Windows 8
Want to take a closer look at an ISO file? Right-click resource manager and click Mount to view a virtual drive. You can open the files contained in the drive or add more files.

40. Windows 8 Folder Options
The folder options of Windows 8 have changed again, and the toolbar menu has disappeared. However, if you click the File to change the folder and search options, the old-style dialog box will appear.

Of course, you can also load the folder option from the old control panel: press the Windows Firewall rkey, enter control.exe, press enter to start the control panel, select the large icon in the View list, and then click the folder option to open the dialog box.

41. Open a new process
Windows 8 resource manager looks more stable, but once a crash occurs, you can open them by following these steps: click a file to open a window in the new process, the resource manager will run a new window in a single assumer.exe process.

42. Restart the resource manager.
If the Windows 8 Resource Manager is locked for some reason, you do not need to close the resource manager and restart it. You only need to press Ctrl + Alt + Esc, select the resource manager in the list and click restart.

43. Virtual installation problems
If Windows 8 is installed on a virtual machine, you may encounter some problems. For example, VMware Workstation 7 cannot complete the task smoothly, microsoft's own virtual PC and virtual server also failed to run. Here, the best choice for users is to run the latest version of VirtualBox, VMware Workstation 8 and Parallels 7 on Mac can also work normally.

44. Solve performance problems
If your Windows 8 system runs slowly but you do not know why, the new task manager may help you solve the problem.

Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc or right-click the task bar and select start task manager to start the new task manager, the process tab displays a detailed view of the current CPU usage time, memory, hard drive, and network bandwidth. The Performance tab displays the graphical view of resource usage, the application history dialog box displays the application that consumes the most resources.

45. The Metro application cannot be started.
If you click a Metro application but it cannot be started, this may be because of display problems. It is reported that the Metro application currently does not support screen resolution less than x768, so you should increase your screen resolution as much as possible.

If not, update your video Drive. In addition, user account problems are also common causes of the failure to start the Metro application. Try to create a new user account using different email addresses.

46. Old Task Manager
If the new task manager does not meet your needs, you can press Windows + R and enter TaskMGR and press enter to start the old task manager.

47. 16-bit applications
Open the desktop control panel, open the 16-bit application to support small applications, and click OK to run the old 16-bit application in Windows 8.

48. Windows 8 crash
When the blue screen crashes on Windows 8, the following screen appears.

49. Device Manager events
If you encounter a drive or hardware issue in Windows 8, start the Device Manager, browse to the device, right-click it, select Properties, and click the new event tag, you can see the drive and related services installed on Windows.

50. Repair Windows 8
If Windows 8 stops working, there are several new methods to restore Windows 8 to normal.

If Windows 8 can be started, select the Metro Control Panel application, click "general" and select "refresh" to reinstall Windows and retain your data, if you select "reset", you can restore Windows and delete your data and applications at the same time.

If Windows 8 cannot be started, start it from your original installation disc, select the language and keyboard, click "repair your computer", and select "Troubleshooting ", then you can reinstall or reset your computer. Click the "advanced" option, and you will see a tool or system image file to restore Windows from the original restore point and an "Auto Fix" option to solve common startup problems in Windows.