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WINDOWS 10 Course Notes: Windows 10 Is A Series of

This document provides an overview and introduction to the Windows 10 course notes. It discusses how the book aims to help users utilize Windows 10 simply and cost-effectively by focusing on basic features and leaving out more complicated ones. It also briefly outlines how the book is structured and organized. The document then previews one of the early chapters about customizing the login and desktop background screens through the Windows settings menu.

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WINDOWS 10 Course Notes: Windows 10 Is A Series of

This document provides an overview and introduction to the Windows 10 course notes. It discusses how the book aims to help users utilize Windows 10 simply and cost-effectively by focusing on basic features and leaving out more complicated ones. It also briefly outlines how the book is structured and organized. The document then previews one of the early chapters about customizing the login and desktop background screens through the Windows settings menu.

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WINDOWS 10 course notes

0. A few words about this Windows 10 book

This book is about using Windows 10 with less stress and less expenses.
We will presume that you use a computer (desktop or laptop) with Windows 10 already installed.
Installing or upgrading are stressful enough, so we won't talk about them for now.

This book helps those whom use a computer (desktop,laptop) with Windows 10 and its purpose is to
allow you a most simple use and control of your computer, and also a cost effective one.

Windows 10 is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft and released as part of its
Windows NT family of operating systems.

Windows 10 received mostly positive reviews upon its original release in July 2015.

Microsoft aimed to have Windows 10 installed on over a billion devices within three years of its
release;[15] this goal was ultimately reached in March 2020.

[15]
Bott, Ed. "Microsoft's big Windows 10 goal: one billion or bust". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Retrieved
May 14, 2019.

0.2 How this book works

The book tries to keep Windows 10 as simple as possible. And also to keep it low cost.
If one gets to manage all the tips and tricks from this book, then one can use Windows 10 with
low stress. The book leaves out the more complicated features of Windows 10. If you already use
them then very good for you. But if you got more stress when using them then you can use this book to
reverse to more simple, cost effective features. Not all the users need the myriad Windows features.

When you will have a good command of the options, app and tools in this book, then you will have the
upper ground in using your computer.

A future book will deal with the more complicated Windows features.
1. Login Screen / Welcome Screen

After starting your computer you will get a


Welcome Screen with the time and date.

Then just click the screen with the mouse and select the user by clicking it.
After selecting the user you have to enter the right password to login.
Windows allows to bypass the login screen, but then everyone can access
your computer. Not recommanded.

After a successful login the computer's screen will show the Desktop.

Optimized for a mouse and keyboard, it’s where


you arrange your work in windows and make things happen.
1.1 How to change the welcome screen

How to change the Welcome Screen / Desktop

These kind of changes can be done through the Settings option.

Click on the left bottom corner Start (or push the Windows key)
Then click Settings

then click Personalization


A quick way to get the Personalization options is to right-click on the Desktop, then select Personalize
from the menu.
A window will appear and in the left side there will be a Background option.

Clicking it will allow you to change your desktop image to a saved picture, a solid color or even a slide
show of images.
Select Picture, then click Browse to select a picture from your computer's storage or from some themed
images.
Then choose(select) how to fit: Fill, Stretch, Tile, Center, Span with their obvious meanings.
Slideshow option is more complicated, so we will skip it for now.
Also, a solid color can be selected from a palette or by creating a custom color.
Changing the login screen image

Click on the Lock screen option on the left side in the Personalize window.
You can choose from a Picture, a Slideshow or Windows spotlight which displays a random image.
Make sure that that Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen is set to On.

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