How To Add Apps On Windows 8 Laptop

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HP PCs - Learning How to Use Windows 8 Features and Apps

This document pertains to HP computers and tablets that came with Windows 8

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If you are non using the latest version of Windows eight, some graphics and information in this document may vary. Yous can get the latest version from the Microsoft Shop.

Windows 8 is a Microsoft operating system environs based on Windows seven just with meaning changes to how you notice and piece of work with software. Windows 8 is designed especially for touch on, providing easy access to the software and Internet applications that you use nigh often.

If y'all are familiar with previous versions of Windows, using Windows 8 might seem bad-mannered at first. However, when you become familiar with the easy-to-use interface, y'all'll probably notice yourself having more fun and being more productive.

Read this document to larn and discover more about the possibilities in Windows 8.

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Windows viii is a dynamic environment where the Start screen is easily changed and graphics update often. Some screen shots in this article might appear different from an actual Windows 8 feel.

View a video to aid you acquire about the new features

Before you begin

The steps and graphics in this support document work with the latest version of Windows 8. Before taking the time to learn about Windows viii, make sure Windows is updated.

Make sure you update Windows!

Microsoft releases updates for Windows eight to make it more secure and user-friendly. The first thing you should practise before using your computer is to connect to the Internet and get all the latest bachelor updates from Microsoft.

Update to the latest version of Windows 8 (if an update is bachelor) by clicking or touching the Store tile from the Kickoff screen. When the Store app opens, blazon Windows 8 update to find an update from Microsoft that will update Windows to the next version. For instance, if your estimator came with the first version of Windows 8, you can update it to Windows 8.1 using the Store. If you cannot find a Windows 8 update in the Store, then your computer already has the latest version of Windows eight installed.

Adjacent, after you have updated Windows, make certain you accept all of the latest Windows update files installed. Windows updates are non the aforementioned as updating the version of Windows 8. Windows updates are software files to fix issues, brand your system more secure, or update hardware drivers. Microsoft makes this easy with the Windows Update tool. To utilise this tool, blazon Windows Update from the Start screen to find and open Windows Update. From this tool you tin download and install all important or optional updates. You may exist required to restart your computer for any changes to accept event.

By keeping Windows 8 up-to-appointment, yous make your reckoner more secure and less probable to come across errors or problems in the future.

New features

Click an item in the following list for more information about the new features in Windows 8.

The Beginning screen

Windows 8 has a newly designed Start screen. The Get-go screen contains groups of tiles that represent your software programs, similar to desktop icons but with special advantages. It takes only 1 click or touch to open a software program from a tile. Tiles are typically larger and more colorful than desktop icons. Many tiles are animated and can display electric current information directly from the Start screen to proceed you up-to-engagement without opening the software.

Past using tiles, this new Start screen puts all of your virtually important software applications at your fingertips and allows you to easily movement and group your tiles in a way that makes sense to you.

Effigy : Windows 8 Offset screen

Apps

Windows 8 comes with new apps - software designed specifically to run from the Windows eight Offset screen - such as Music, Photos, Atmospheric condition, and many more. The Shop app is probably the most important app because you can use it to easily download and install more apps.

Many apps are like in design and share features to provide a more consequent experience with back buttons, full page scrolling, and a similar use of icons or buttons. These new apps are also designed for touch, to stay open up for fast access, and to be viewed total screen.

Apps piece of work well together. You lot can "snap" or split the screen betwixt apps in ratios of 70/30, 60/xl or 50/50. Plus, the apps will scale properly to fit their new window sizes. If you have a 1080p brandish, yous can divide your screen between three apps.

For example, you can snap the Music app to mind to music while surfing the Internet with the Internet Explorer app.

Cyberspace Explorer app - full screen	Music app snapped to the left and Internet Explorer app on main screen

Tiles that keep you lot updated

The Windows 8 Commencement screen has tiles instead of desktop icons. Tiles easily open your software programs with i touch or click. They are typically larger, more colorful, and some are alive, meaning that they tin provide animated, timely updates displayed direct from their tile. For case, the Mail tile shows new messages as they come up in, the Calendar tile shows upcoming events, the Weather tile shows the current forecast, and the Windows Store tile shows available update notifications for all apps.

Camera tile	Calendar tile - live

Charms - easy access to options

The new Charms feature provides piece of cake access to some of your most oftentimes used actions. These actions are ever available from wherever you are in Windows. Whether you lot are working from the Get-go screen, the Windows desktop, or an app, Charms are e'er available.

To open the Charms, press the Windows + C keys.

When opened, a box in the lower left appears showing the date and time, network strength, and power or bombardment information. The Charms card opens on the correct border of the screen.

Figure : Charms carte du jour



1. Search

2. Share

3. Start

4. Devices

5. Settings

Charms provide admission to the following deportment:

• Search charm - Search everywhere - apps, settings, files, even the Internet.

• Share charm - Share photos, music, movies, or links with other apps or people. For instance, when viewing a spider web page, use the Share charm to ship it to Facebook, or to your friends. You don't need to open up email to copy and paste the link. You can send a photograph directly from the Photograph app instead of opening Mail, creating a message, and attaching the photo. If you don't have time to read an article now, you can share information technology with your Reading Listing and save it to read subsequently.

• Start charm - Utilise the Get-go charm to return to the Start screen. If y'all are already on the Start screen, the Start charm returns to the previous screen.

• Devices charm - Utilize the Devices charm to impress, play media on TVs and audio systems, use more than than one monitor, and send content to nearby computers and other devices such as phones. For example, you can connect your figurer to your television to share your holiday photos with your friends.

• Settings charm - Use the Settings charm to personalize your estimator. A few examples of what you can exercise include: modify the volume or brightness, cull your keyboard type, access the computer settings, and turn off the computer.

Works with your personal information

When y'all log in to any Windows 8 computer that is connected to the Internet using your Microsoft login, you are automatically connected to your ain information - no demand to re-enter your contacts or prepare your email. Windows viii links your LinkedIn network, Facebook friends, Twitter contacts, and all your email contacts in one place. Use the OneDrive app to easily shop and access your important files from any figurer y'all are signed into.

A better design for touch

The tiles are easier to use so yous can open up the app you want the first time. Only one touch opens your app - no need to double-click. The Kickoff screen tin scroll from left to right, and then information technology can be expanded equally much as you need to keep all your apps organized.

In addition, the new apps for Windows 8 are besides designed for 1 touch and scrolling. In the News app for example, manufactures are displayed in tiles, so they are easy to browse and select.

Figure : Reading a news story

Navigating in Windows viii

Use the data in the following sections to learn how to perform your tasks in Windows viii.

Using the Lock screen (Welcome screen)

The Lock screen covers the sign-in screen and displays the date and time, as well as notifications for e-mail, agenda, and other apps. You tin customize the Lock screen by changing the picture and choosing which apps display notifications.

The Lock screen can brandish the post-obit information:

• Appointment and time in the lower-left corner.

• Network and ability connection status icons.

• Detailed status from the agenda app (past default).

• Status updates such every bit new message notifications from apps like Messaging and Mail.

Y'all tin can likewise choose to play a slide prove on the Lock screen, and tin can take photos right from the Lock screen with the built-in photographic camera.

If you are leaving your computer, press the Windows + L cardinal to bring upward the Lock screen to protect your data.

Figure : Windows 8 Lock screen

To customize the Lock screen:

1. Press the Windows + C key.

   The Charms menu opens on the correct edge of the screen.

2. Click Settings.

   Figure : Charms with Settings selected

   

3. Click Change PC settings in the lower right, and then click Lock screen.

   Figure : Lock screen selected

   

4. Modify the picture past choosing i of the pictures available, or browse your computer for a picture show.

   Figure : Changing the Lock screen picture

   

5. To view a slide show on the Lock screen, motion the slider to the On position and select a picture source.

   Figure : Lock screen slide show feature turned on

   

6. In the Lock screen apps area, choose which app you want to run in the background to provide status and notifications.

   To utilize the camera from the Lock screen, move the slider to plow on the feature.

   Figure : Using the photographic camera from the Lock screen

   

Signing in to Windows

To shut the Lock screen and sign in to the computer, use one of the following methods:

• tap the space bar

• spin the mouse wheel

• on a touch screen, swipe upwards from the lesser of the screen

On the sign-in screen, type your password. Then click the arrow to open up Windows.

Effigy : Sign-in screen

Learning virtually the Start screen

The Windows 8 Start screen contains tiles that are shortcuts to apps. Many of these tiles are live, meaning that they can report data from the app. For example, on the Weather condition app tile, y'all can see the current temperature and forecast. On the Mail app tile, you can run into how many unread electronic mail messages you accept.

Figure : Windows eight Start screen

The new Start screen gives you a larger desktop by expanding the borders left and right. Thisallows you to organize your apps into groups so you can encounter all of them.

To navigate throughthe Showtime screen, click and elevate on the roll bar at the bottom of the screen and so motion the screen left or right.

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You lot will see the whorl bar but if your groups practice not fit on the screen.

Figure : Scrolling through the Start screen

Customizing your Start screen

You tin customize and organize your Starting time screen to meet your needs and preferences. The list below shows some of the ways to do this:

• Add a tile for well-nigh annihilation: Windows 8 apps, desktop apps, web pages, people, and file folders are a few examples.

• Add new groups of tiles for similar or frequently used apps, modify the social club of the groups, and name your groups.

• Change the size of the tiles and set them to display updated information well-nigh the app.

• Alter the Start screen background and colour.

Shutting down the computer

To shut downward the computer, printing and release the hardware power push button on your computer. Windows 8 knows when the ability button is pressed and safely shuts down your reckoner - based on the current power settings.

If the power button cannot easily be accessed, yous tin shut down the calculator in Windows using the post-obit steps:

1. Press the Windows + C fundamental.

   The Charms menu opens on the right edge of the screen.

2. Click Settings.

   Effigy : Charms with Settings selected

   

3. Click Power.

   Figure : Settings menu with Power selected

   

4. Select Close down.

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   To restart, click Restart. To put the computer in sleep style, click Sleep.

   Your selections might be different, depending on your Power settings.

   Effigy : Shutting down the figurer

   

Navigating with a mouse

Use the following information to navigate in Windows 8 with a mouse:

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When using a mouse in Windows eight, remember the iv corners of your principal screen. Each corner provides admission to useful features.

• To switch betwixt the First screen and the desktop, motion the mouse pointer to the lower-left corner of the screen, and and so click the Start push button that displays.

  Figure : Start button for navigating from the Beginning screen to the Desktop

  

• To zoom on the First screen,motility the mouse to the lower-right corner of the screen and click the Zoom icon.

  Figure : Zoom icon in the lower-correct corner

  

• To open up the Charms with the mouse, motility the mouse pointer to the upper-correct corner of the screen, and then downwardly to the Charms when they appear.

  Figure : Opening the Charms with a mouse

  

• To close an app with the mouse, identify the mouse pointer at the pinnacle of the screen so that information technology changes into a hand. Elevate the hand down and to the bottom of the screen. Your app shrinks and then disappears off the lesser of the screen.

  Figure : Closing an app with the mouse

  

• To switch to the previous app, move the mouse to the upper-left corner and click the thumbnail that appears.

  Figure : Thumbnail in the upper-left

  

• To see all open apps, move the mouse to the upper-left corner to display the previous app. And then drag the mouse downward the left edge of the screen to run into thumbnails of the open up apps. Click a thumbnail to switch to that app or correct-click to close the app.

  Figure : View of all open apps

  

• To snap an app to the side of the screen, open the app yous want to run on the side. Then open up the app you lot want to run on the primary screen. Move the mouse to the upper-left corner to display the thumbnail for the first app.

  Figure : Snapping an app

  

  Drag the thumbnail to the side of the screen where you lot want the app. Release the mouse to run into both apps on the screen. You can split the screen between apps in ratios of lxx/30, lx/xl or fifty/50. If you accept a 1080p display, y'all can carve up your screen between three apps.

  Effigy : Dragging the thumbnail

  

  To close the snapped app, drag the divider bar to the edge of the screen.

  Figure : Snapped Music and People apps

  

  If y'all have a 1080p display, yous can divide your screen between 3 apps.

  Figure : Three apps snapped to the screen

  

Navigating with the keyboard

Use the post-obit data to navigate in Windows 8 using the keyboard.

Keystroke	Upshot
Windows key	Switches betwixt Starting time Screen and the Desktop (or the concluding full screen application).
Windows central + C	Shows the Charms and the clock.
Windows key + H	Opens the Share charm.
Windows primal + I	Opens the Settings amuse.
Windows key + Thou	Opens the Devices charm.
Windows key + O	Turns the screen orientation lock on or off if your calculator can detect screen orientation.
Windows key + W	Opens the Search charm with Search Settings selected.
Windows key + F	Opens the Search charm with Search Files selected.
Windows key + Q	Opens the Search charm with Search Everywhere selected.
Windows key + Ten	Opens the advanced menu on the desktop or the Offset Screen.
Windows central + Z	Opens commands for the current app.
Windows central + Tab	Shows the most recently used running apps and Start. Hold the Windows central and press Tab to move from app to app.
Windows key + Prt Scr (Print Screen)	Takes and saves screenshots instantly. Windows saves the screenshot to your Pictures folder as a PNG epitome file.
Alt + Tab	Shows all open apps. Concur Alt and press Tab to move from app to app.
Alt + F4	Closes the software y'all are currently using. If the Windows Desktop is selected, the Windows Shut Downwards menu displays.
Ctrl + mouse wheel	Zooms - Hold downwards the Ctrl primal on the keyboard while using the mouse wheel to grow or shrink an item on the screen.

Navigating on a affect screen

Use the following bear on gestures to navigate on a computer with a touch on brandish.

Gesture	Action	Result
	Tap / Double tap	Select an item.
	Swipe from the correct edge of the screen.	Open the Charms.
	Swipe from the correct edge to open the Charms, tap the Search charm, and tap the category such as Files. So tap the search box to use the onscreen keyboard.	Search for an app, setting, or file.
	Swipe from right edge to open the Charms, and and then tap Commencement.	Open the Start screen.
	Swipe from the right edge of the screen to open the Charms, tap the Settings charm, and and so tap Power.	Shut downwardly the computer.
	Swipe from the left edge of the screen.	Open the previously used app.
	Swipe from the top edge of the screen.	Brandish the app commands.
	Swipe from meridian of screen to the bottom.	Shut a Windows eight app. (Close Desktop apps using the Close icon in the upper-right corner of the app window.)
	Slide left and right or up and downwardly.	Scroll left or right and up or down.
	Use two fingers to pinch or stretch.	Zoom in and out.

Navigating with a touch on pad

Utilise the post-obit gestures to navigate in Windows viii using the touchpad on a notebook computer.

Gesture	Action	Consequence
	Tap / Double tap	Select an particular.
	Swipe from the correct edge of the touchpad.	Display the Charms.
	Swipe from the left edge of the touchpad.	Open the previously used app.
	Swipe from the top edge of the touchpad.	Display the app commands.
	Slide two fingers left and right or upwardly and down.	Scroll left or correct and up or down.
	Use two fingers to pinch or stretch.	Zoom in and out.

Working with multiple apps

Windows 8 provides several options for switching from 1 app to another.

• Windows cardinal . Switch betwixt Start Screen and the Desktop (or the concluding total screen application).

• Movement the mouse to the upper-left corner to display a thumbnail image of the previous app. Click the thumbnail to switch to that app.

• To meet all open apps, move the mouse to the upper-left corner to display a thumbnail of the previous app, and then drag the mouse down the left edge of the screen. Click a thumbnail to switch to that app or right-click to shut the app.

• Alt + Tab. Shows thumbnails of all open up apps. Concur Alt and printing Tab to move from app to app. Release both keys to switch to that app.

• Windows central + Tab. Shows the nigh recently used running apps and Start. Hold the Windows fundamental and press Tab to move from app to app. Release to switch to that app.

• If your screen is broad enough (1366 pixels), y'all can use snap to go along two apps on the screen. With snap, you can move an app to either the correct or left side of the screen and open some other app. For example, you tin can snap the Music app to the side so you lot can listen to music while surfing the Internet on the main screen.

Finding files, settings, and apps

To find anything from the Commencement screen, just start typing. Yous tin search for anything from Offset by typing on the keyboard. For instance, to search for an HP app, blazon HP on the keyboard. A list of all HP apps displays.

You can also search using the Search amuse:

1. Press the Windows + C key.

   Figure : Search charm

   

2. Type the name of the matter you want to open or search for into the Search box.

   Figure : Searching in Windows viii

   

3. Then click your item in the search results to open it.

   Effigy : Searching for an app

   

Endmost apps

Windows eight apps do not have close buttons. When you change to another app, the previous app is suspended and continues running in the groundwork using very few system resources. If your arrangement needs resource, Windows automatically closes the apps. When you re-open that app, you can proceed where you left off.

If you want to completely close an app, use one of the following methods:

• Movement the mouse cursor to the summit of the screen. When information technology changes from an arrow into a hand, drag information technology down to the bottom of the screen. The app shrinks and so disappears off the bottom of the screen.

  Figure : Endmost an app with the mouse

  

• Motion the mouse to the upper-left corner to display a thumbnail of the previous app. Then elevate the mouse down the left edge of the screen to display thumbnails of the open apps. Right-click a thumbnail to shut the app.

  Figure : Thumbnail display of open apps

  

• With the app open up on the screen, press Alt + F4.

Working with Windows eight tiles

Use the following information to customize your tiles.

• Correct-click a tile to see the tile commands. Not all commands are available for each tile.

  • Unpin from Start - removes the tile from the Start screen. This does not uninstall the app from the reckoner.

  • Uninstall - removes the app from the estimator and uninstalls the app from the computer.

  • Resize - Increases or decreases the tile size. Depending on the tile, choose from big, wide, medium, and small.

  • Turn live tile off or on - displays information from the app when turned on. For instance, on the Conditions tile, come across the electric current temperature and forecast.

  • Unpin from Taskbar or Pivot to Taskbar - pins (or unpins) tiles for desktop apps such as Paint or Notepad to the taskbar on the desktop

  • Open new window - opens a new bare window in desktop apps such every bit Internet Explorer and Pigment.

  • Run as administrator - available on desktop apps such every bit Paint and Notepad. Use when necessary to access or change files or system configurations.

  • Open up file location - available for desktop apps such as File Explorer to open to that folder.

  Effigy : Example of the tile commands for Paint

  

• Pin an app to the Get-go screen:

  1. Right-click anywhere on the background of the Start screen to display the All apps icon in the lower-correct corner.

  2. Click All apps arrow to see a list of all your installed apps.

     Figure : All apps icon

     

  3. Find the app you desire to pin to Commencement, and right-click it. At the bottom of the screen, click Pin to Start.

     Effigy : App that has been pinned to Start

     

• To motility a tile with the mouse, drag it to a new position.

  Figure : Moving a tile with the mouse

  

  To move a tile using affect, kickoff elevate information technology upwards or downward. And then elevate it to the new position.

  Figure : Moving a tile using touch

  

• You tin organize your tiles into groups, arrange the groups, and assign names to groups. Use the following steps:

  1. To create a new group, select a tile, drag it to an open space, and drop it. You can have many groups on the Start screen. If the groups don't fit on one screen, scroll right or left to see your groups past clicking and dragging the curlicue bar at the bottom of the screen.

     Figure : New group of apps

     

  2. To change the order of your groups, kickoff click the Zoom button in the lower-right corner of the screen.

     Figure : Zoom button in lower-correct corner

     

  3. Drag the group to a new position.

     Figure : Moving a grouping

     

  4. To name a group, right-click anywhere on the groundwork of the Kickoff screen, and and so click Customize.

     Figure : Push button to customize tiles

     

  5. In the Proper name box, blazon a name for the grouping.

     Figure : Name box for a group of apps

     

  6. Click the screen ii times to return to the normal view. The new proper name for the group displays.

Using Windows 8 apps

Use the post-obit information to learn how to utilise the new Windows eight apps.

Windows 8 app: Alarms

Figure : Alarms tile

Alarms is an app that provides you with alarms, timers, and a stopwatch to assistance you manage and keep runway of time.

1. To add an alarm, click the Plus push button.

   Figure : Adding an alarm

   

2. Use the dials to set the warning time.

   Figure : Setting the alarm time

   

3. Choose whether the alert will occur one time or several times, and then choose the audio.

   Figure : Set the reoccurrence and sound

   

4. Click Salve.

   Figure : Save button

   

Windows 8 app: Reckoner

Figure : Figurer tile

Estimator provides standard and scientific calculators in addition to many dissimilar converters, such every bit volume, length, weight, and temperature.

Effigy : Standard figurer

Figure : Scientific computer

Windows 8 app: Calendar

Figure : Calendar tile

The Calendar app is function of the Windows eight Communications apps that are designed to help you lot stay organized and connected with the people in your life.

1. Click the Agenda tile to open the calendar, and and then correct-click the screen to select your view - Twenty-four hours, Calendar week, or Month.

   Figure : Calendar view options

   

2. To add an particular, click the New item button.

   Figure : New calendar item

   

   Figure : Creating a new calendar item

   

3. If yous have more than than 1 calendar, such equally Hotmail, Outlook, or Google, you can view them all by calculation that account to the Calendar app. Use the Settings amuse to add accounts and set calendar options and permissions.

   To add a calendar, open the Settings charm, and click Accounts.

   Figure : Add an account

   

4. Click the blazon of business relationship you want to add.

   Figure : Business relationship type options

   

5. Enter your email address and countersign, and click Connect.

   Effigy : Account information fields

   

6. Click the account proper name to set download frequency and the content you want to sync.

   Figure : Calendar options

   

7. Close the Settings. The Calendar app retrieves your information.

Windows viii app: Camera

Figure : Camera tile

With the Camera app, you tin can take photos or shoot video using the photographic camera in your estimator or with an external USB webcam.When you open the app, the photographic camera displays an image preview. Tap or click anywhere on the screen to take a moving-picture show. The following commands are bachelor:

• Video Mode: Switch Photographic camera from taking nevertheless photos to recording video. Tap or click the screen to start recording, and tap again to stop.

• Timer: Filibuster for 3 seconds earlier snapping a picture or starting the video recording.

• Exposure: Move the slider upward and downwardly to change the exposure setting.

• Camera curl: View the pictures y'all have taken.

To view your pictures and videos, click Photographic camera Curlicue. Then keep clicking the left and right arrows to scan all of the images and videos that have been taken with the Camera app.

Figure : Arrow for browsing pictures and videos

To edit your pictures, right-click the screen to encounter the commands. To delete pictures or videos, click the Delete button.

Use the following steps to crop a picture:

1. Click the Crop push to display the 4 dots on the screen.

2. Elevate the dots to select the surface area of the picture you want to remain after cropping.

3. Select Apply to complete the ingather.

Effigy : Expanse of a pic selected to be cropped

Use the following steps to edit videos:

1. Tap the screen to play the video.

2. Tap the screen again to show the Play button in the center of the screen, the media slider bar, and the Trim and Delete buttons.

3. Click the Trim button.

4. Drag the white dots on the slider bar to your new beginning and catastrophe positions, and then click Save a re-create to save the trimmed video.

Figure : Trim dots mark the new beginning and catastrophe positions of the edited video

Your pictures and videos are saved to the Webcam folder in your Pictures library:\Pictures\Webcam.Pictures are saved as JPEG. Videos are saved as MP4.

Windows 8 app: Finance

Figure : Finance tile

The Finance app provides information and news nearly business and the stock market. The information in the app is updated every fifteen minutes. The data on the Finance tile is updated every 30 minutes.

1. Click the tile to open up the app. The app opens to the main page, showing current top stories, the stocks on your Watchlist, market indices, rates, and top movers. Coil to the right for more than information.

   Figure : Finance app main page

   

2. You can view a quote past searching for the business organisation using the Search box. Type the company name or symbol in the Search box, and click the Search icon.

   Effigy : Searching for a business

   

3. To open the app commands, right-click anywhere on the screen. The following options are available:

   • Today: Switches to the main page showing current top stories, Watchlist stocks, market indices, rates, and superlative movers.

   • Watchlist: Takes you to tiles for the stocks in your list.You tin can also pin items from your Watchlist to the Start screen. Employ the following steps to customize your stock Watchlist.

     1. To add together a stock, click the Plus push.

        Figure : Plus button to add together a stock to the Watchlist

        

     2. Type the company proper noun in the box, select information technology from the list, and click Add.

        Effigy : Add to Watchlist screen

        

     3. To remove a stock, correct-click a stock tile, and click Remove in the lower-left corner of the screen.

   • News: Switches to a folio with concern-related news stories.

   • Tools: Use the mortgage figurer, currency converter, or retirement planner, figure car payments, and rails your savings.

   • World Markets: Switches to a page that displays the electric current rates for stock indexes around the world.Scroll to the right for more.

     Figure : Earth Markets

     

Windows 8 app: Food & Drinkable

Figure : Food & Potable tile

The Nutrient & Potable Bing app offers access to a multifariousness of recipes from recipe websites, popular cookbooks, and food bloggers. The app includes a wine encyclopedia with data on over 1.5 million bottles of wine and hundreds of popular cocktail recipes.

With Nutrient & Beverage y'all can browse recipes by cuisine, level of difficulty, preferred cooking method, or past specific ingredients. In addition, you lot tin scan pictures of meals so click the image to run into the full recipe.

Effigy : Bing Food & Drinkable app

Yous can also save your own recipes into the app, and easily salvage other recipes in your drove. The app includes a meal planner, the ability to create shopping lists to electronic mail or print, and a easily costless cooking mode.

Scroll to the right to reach the Next Steps menu and make a selection.

Figure : Side by side Steps card

Windows eight app: Games

Figure : Games tile

With the Game app, you can get games from the Windows shop or from the Xbox Live Marketplace. You can likewise customize your avatar and manage your contour and other business relationship settings.

Open Games past clicking the app tile in the Start Screen. The Games welcome screen shows your Xbox avatar and your profile details.

Figure : Games welcome screen

Yous can create a new avatar, customize your existing avatar, or edit your profile details. Gyre to the right for the following sections:

• Friends: Shows your Xbox friends.

• Game activity: Shows games that you accept purchased recently.

• Dwelling house: Lists some of the games bachelor in the Windows Store specifically for Windows, every bit well as your achievements, letters, and friends.

Windows 8 app: Health & Fitness

Figure : Health & Fitness tile

The Bing Wellness & Fitness app features nutrition, health, and practise trackers, plus step-by-step instructions and videos for hundreds of exercises and workouts.

Effigy : Bing Wellness & Fitness Quick Access

Use the Diet Tracker to assist yous calculate your daily food and stay on your eating plan.

Figure : Diet Tracker

Use the Health Tracker to record your weight and run across graphs of your progress. Y'all tin can too track your cholesterol, claret force per unit area, and pulse.

Figure : Health Tracker

Windows eight app: Help + Tips

Figure : Help + Tips tile

The Help + Tips app provides overviews of basic Windows eight features and includes short videos. It has the following sections: Start and apps, Get around, Basic deportment, Your account and files, Settings, and What'due south new.

Figure : Assist + Tips screen

Windows eight app: Internet Explorer 11

Effigy : Cyberspace Explorer tile

There are two versions of Internet Explorer in Windows 8: Internet Explorer xi, the touch-optimized version on the Start screen, and Internet Explorer for the desktop, the desktop version of Internet Explorer.

1. Click the tile to kickoff Net Explorer.

   Effigy : Internet Explorer eleven

   

2. Right-click the screen to brandish the app commands at the bottom of the screen:

   Figure : Internet Explorer 11 app commands

   

   1. Back button

   2. Site icon

   3. Address bar - type address or search term

   4. Refresh push button

   5. Favorites

   6. Page tools - Become app for this site (if bachelor), Find on folio, View on the desktop, View downloads

   7. Forward button

3. To open a new tab, open up the commands and click the plus sign.

   Figure : New tab button

   

4. Click the address bar at the bottom of the screen to blazon an address or search term, or select a tile from your Frequent or Favorites to go to a web page.

   Figure : Options for navigating to a spider web address

   

5. If y'all have issues viewing a webpage in Internet Explorer 11, click Page Tools,and and so click View on the desktop. Internet Explorer for the desktop automatically opens to the webpage you were viewing.

   Figure : Option to view Internet Explorer in the desktop

   

Windows 8 app: Post

Figure : Mail tile

The Mail app works with several mail providers, including Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, and Outlook.

1. To add a mail business relationship, open the Settings charm, click Accounts, and click Add together an Account.

   Effigy : Add together an account

   

2. Click the type of account and so follow the instructions to add together the email accost and password.

   Effigy : Account type options

   

3. Click the tile to open the Mail app, and click Inbox to see your messages.

   Figure : Mail Inbox

   

4. To send a message, click New in the upper-right corner.

   Figure : Inbox commands

   

   1. Reply

   2. New message

   3. Delete

5. Type a proper noun in the To box, or click the plus button to run across your contacts. Then type the subject area and message.

   Figure : Creating a new message

   

6. To format your message, highlight the section or correct-click in the message. Postal service opens the formatting commands at the bottom of the screen.

   Figure : Formatting commands

   

   1. Re-create/paste

   2. Font

   3. Text color

   4. Highlight

   5. Bold

   6. Italic

   7. Underline

   8. Listing

   9. Emoticons

   10. Hyperlink

   11. Open in new window

   12. More - Relieve draft, Disengage, Redo, Articulate formatting

7. When done, click Send.

   Effigy : Transport button

   

8. To print a message, open the Devices charm and select the printer. Click Print.

   Effigy : Screen for printing a bulletin

   

Windows 8 app: Maps

Figure : Maps tile

The Maps app uses Bing Maps to provide information such equally driving directions, and traffic or aerial views.

Figure : Maps app with commands displayed

Right-click on the screen to see the app controls. The following options are available:

• Pivot to Start

• Add a pivot

• Map manner: Alter betwixt road view and aeriform view.

• My location: To eye the map on your location, click My location.

  note:

  Open the Settings charm and click Permissions to let Maps to access your location.

• Directions: Use to become directions from ane place to some other.

  Effigy : Directions

  

• Search: Apply the Search feature to search for a location or business concern.

  Figure : Search amuse in the Maps app

  

Windows eight app: Music

Figure : Music tile

With the Music app, yous can play music files from your computer or you can purchase and download music from the Xbox Marketplace.

notation:

The Music app does non play traditional music CDs. To listen to songs from your CDs using the Music app, the disc tracks must be converted to files. Use Windows Media Player to convert the tracks on your music CDs to music files such as WMA or MP3. These files can so be played past the Music app.

1. To play music already on your calculator, click the Music tile and then click Collection.

   Effigy : Xbox Music

   

   Click an album tile to play information technology.

   Figure : Music app

   

2. Correct-click the screen to display the Music commands. You tin play, add a song to a playlist, delete, shuffle, and perform other actions with the music rail.

   Figure : Music commands

   

Windows eight app: News

Figure : News tile

The News app provides news gathered from a variety of sources across the spider web. News stories are grouped into categories such every bit World News, Business, and Technology.

1. Click the News tile to open the app.

   Figure : News app

   

2. Curl to the right to see pinnacle stories in other categories such as World, Technology, and Business.

   Figure : News categories

   

3. Select a category to brandish stories from that category on a separate page. Select a tile to open and read the new story.

   Figure : News story tiles

   

4. Right-click the screen to open the app commands.

   • Bing News: encounter meridian news stories in predetermined categories such every bit World News, Technology, and Politics.

   • Topics: create and add new categories to fit your interests. To create a new category, click Add a topic.

   • Sources: a list of all the news sources sorted by category such as National and World News, Business concern, Amusement, Sports, and Science. Click individual tiles to see news in that publication.

Windows 8 app: People

Figure : People tile

With the People app, yous can keep runway of all of your contacts from your Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and electronic mail accounts in ane central location that is automatically backed up. When yous sign in from a new Windows 8 device, your contacts are available - no need to enter them again.

note:

The People app has a memory enshroud and then yous can add or edit contacts while y'all are offline. When you go back online, the changes are synced so your updates are backed upward.

1. Click the People tile to open up the app.

   Figure : People app

   

2. To add together another account, click the Settings amuse, click Accounts, and so click Add together an account. Select the type of account.

   annotation:

   The account list you run across might be dissimilar, depending on what accounts are already installed in the People app.

   Figure : Business relationship type options

   

3. Blazon your email address and countersign. The app automatically retrieves the contact information and adds it to the People app.

   Figure : Account information fields

   

4. Click a person to see their private contact data. From this folio, depending on which services you accept linked to People, you lot can:

   • send them an e-mail

   • view their contour

   • pin to Start

   Right-click the screen to run into the app commands. You can:

   • Edit the contour

   • Delete the profile

   • Add the profile to your Favorites category on the People home page

   • Link multiple profiles for this person

Windows 8 app: Photos

Figure : Photos tile

With the Photo app, yous can keep all your photos in ane place. Upload photos from other devices such as your jail cell phone, external hard drive or memory stick, or digital camera. You lot can also connect the Photograph app to your OneDrive and to your social media services such equally Facebook and Flickr.

1. Click the tile to open the Photo app. Click the downwards arrow to choose between your Pictures library and pictures on your OneDrive.

   Figure : Photo app

   

2. To add photos from another device such as a digital camera or memory stick, outset connect the device to the computer. Then right-click anywhere on the screen and click Import.

   Figure : Import photos from a device

   

3. To share your photos, first select a photo, then open the Share charm.

   You can mail to Facebook or email the photo. Yous can also upload the photo to your OneDrive from the Photos app.

   Figure : Sharing a photo

   

4. To print a photo, open the Devices charm, select a printer, and click Impress.

5. If you desire to see a thumbnail view of your pictures, click the thumbnail button in the upper correct corner.

   Figure : Thumbnail view

   

Windows 8 app: Reading List

Figure : Reading List tile

Use the Reading List app to bookmark or save articles you find on websites that you lot would similar to return to. Reading List is synchronized between apps - you can start reading an article on your computer at work, add it to your Reading Listing, and terminate reading it at home on your tablet.

1. When you lot find an article y'all want to add to your Reading List, swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and select the Share amuse.

2. And so select Reading List.

   Figure : Reading List app in the Share charm

   

3. Click Add to add the commodity to your Reading List. Open Reading List and read the article.

   Figure : Adding to Reading List

   

Windows 8 app: OneDrive

Figure : OneDrive tile

With the OneDrive app you tin easily view the data stored on your OneDrive, upload and sync files, and then admission them from anywhere.

Click the OneDrive tile to kickoff the app.

Figure : OneDrive habitation page

Correct-click the background to open up the app commands.

Figure : OneDrive commands

The following commands are available:

• Select all - select all the files in the folder.

• New Binder - create a new folder that will appear in the file column on the left.

• Add files - transfer files from the estimator to OneDrive.

Right-click an particular to select it and open additional commands. The following commands are bachelor:

Figure : Particular commands (document and photograph)

• Delete - remove the currently selected particular from OneDrive.

• Open with - select a software program to open the file for editing.

• Set every bit Lock screen - use the photograph for the Lock screen groundwork.

• Slide testify - add the current selections to a slide show.

• Rotate - rotate the item.

• Ingather - crop the detail.

• Edit - edit the photo with auto gear up, bones fixes, adapt the calorie-free, color, and add together special furnishings.

Utilize the post-obit steps to post a photo to Facebook:

1. Correct-click an detail to select it. Notation the check in the upper-correct corner.

   Figure : Photo that has been selected

   

2. Press the Windows key + H to open up the Share charm, and click Postal service to Facebook.

3. In the Add a message area, type your message, and then click Transport .

   Effigy : Send button to post pictures to Facebook

   

Windows 8 app: Sports

Figure : Sports tile

The Sports app makes it easy to proceed up with your sports teams. Get news stories, scores, schedules, league standings, and more. You can personalize the app past adding a tile for your favorite teams.

Open the app by clicking the tile. Sports opens to the habitation screen with today's news stories, and schedule and scores for any games that are playing today. Blazon a team or player proper noun in the Search box.

Figure : Sports app

Curl through the app for top news stories, scores, schedules, videos, and slide shows. You tin add your favorite team to get their latest scores. To add a squad, click the Add together push under Favorite Teams.

Effigy : Add push to add a team to Favorites

Blazon the team proper noun in the box, and click Add.

Curl to the right to see the video and slide show selections.

Figure : Videos and Slideshows

Windows 8 app: Travel

Figure : Travel tile

Utilise the travel app to program your vacation, volume flights and hotels, and decide what to see when you get there.

Click the tile to offset the app. Scroll to see featured destinations, panoramas, and magazine articles. To search on a particular destination, type the name in the Search box.

Figure : Travel app

Right-click anywhere on the groundwork to open up the app commands.

• Search flights. Search for flights, wait up schedules and see the status of a detail flight. When y'all are ready to book your flight, Travel automatically takes you to a third-party site to make your reservations.

• Flying status. Cheque the condition of your flights.

• Flight schedules. Check for flight schedules.

• Search hotels. Search for a hotel based on price, class, and amenities. Go information for each hotel including a description, maps, and photos.

Windows 8 app: Windows Store

Figure : Windows Store tile

If you want to update Windows or get more apps, get to the Windows store where you can get complimentary apps or purchase apps.

1. To open the Windows Store, click the Shop tile on the Start screen.

2. The Windows Store opens to the home page of the Windows Shop. Scroll sideways to see more than categories. Tiles for private apps prove the name and logo for the app, too as the price and current rating.

   Figure : Windows shop home folio

   

3. To browse all of the apps that autumn into a category, correct-click an empty space on the Windows Store dwelling folio and select the desired category from the list.

   Figure : Games category selected

   

4. To search in a category, scroll all the way to the right, and then click Come across all.

   Figure : See all push in a subcategory

   

   note:

   These subcategories will be unlike based on the category you are searching. For pocket-size categories, the subcategory setting might not be available.

5. Choose a subcategory such equally Menu to browse all the card games.

   Figure : Card subcategory selected

   

6. For more data about an app, click the tile.

   Figure : Search results

   

7. On this page, you can find more information, or buy and install the app. When yous click Install, text displays on the upper-correct corner indicating that the installation is in progress.

   Figure : Installing an app

   

8. When the installation is complete, Windows displays a notification stating that the app was installed and adds a tile to the Start screen.Click the tile to open the new app.

Windows 8 app: Video

Effigy : Video tile

With the Video app, yous tin play movies already on your reckoner or buy and download movies and Television receiver shows from the Xbox Marketplace.

Figure : Video app

1. To play videos that are already stored on your estimator, click the Video tile and curl to the left to see personal videos.

   Click a tile to play it.

   Effigy : Video app

   

2. Right-click anywhere on the background to display the Video commands.

   Effigy : Video commands

   

   The following commands are available:

   • Previous: Movement to the previous video

   • Pause: Pause the video

   • Adjacent: Move to the next video

   • Volume: Adjust the volume

   • Play to: Play on a connected device

   • Playback options: includes echo and airtight captioning

3. You can also buy movies and Tv shows in the Xbox marketplace. When you select a video in the market place, y'all can:

   • Play a pic trailer.

   • Encounter TV series descriptions and links to episodes.

   • Purchase or rent the video. Media that you purchase is downloaded to your video library.

Windows viii app: Weather condition

Figure : Weather tile

The Conditions app provides the current weather in your location. Yous can scroll to see more information such equally the hourly forecast, conditions maps, and historical weather condition data.

1. Click the tile to open the app.

   Figure : Weather dwelling house screen

   

2. To add a location, right-click to open the commands, and click the Add together button .

   Figure : Push to add a new location

   

3. Blazon the urban center name and so click Add together.

   Effigy : Enter a location to add together

   

4. You tin as well use the Search feature to go weather. Open the Search charm, type a name, and click Search.

5. To modify the temperature units, right-click to open the commands, and click Change to Fahrenheit (or Celsius).

   Figure : Irresolute temperature units

   

Oft asked questions

Where is the Beginning button?

In Windows, the Start bill of fare has been replaced with the Start screen. Even so, In Windows 8.1 there is a Starting time push button. Yous can use the Commencement push to switch between the Windows 8 Start screen and the desktop, motility the mouse to the lower left corner until the Start button displays, and then click it.

Figure : Start button on the Start screen

Windows seven Beginning menu	Windows 8 Start screen

How do I open up my documents?

To open your documents, from the Kickoff screen, blazon Documents. The Search charm displays and begins your search. In the results, click Documents.

Effigy : Search results for Documents

How do I change my groundwork flick?

There are 3 unlike places in Windows 8 where you can modify the background picture: the Beginning screen, the Lock screen, and the Desktop. Use the post-obit instructions to customize your estimator backgrounds.

• To change the background for the Start screen, utilize the following steps:

  1. Click the Settings amuse, so click Personalize.

     Figure : Personalize choice in Settings

     

  2. Select a new background and colour.

     Effigy : Background and color options

     

• To modify the background picture for the Lock screen, apply the following steps:

  1. At the Windows Outset screen, blazon change lock screen picture to open the Search charm, and then click Change the picture on your lock screen.

     Figure : Search results for Change Lock screen motion-picture show

     

  2. Click Modify PC settings in the lower right, click Personalize, and click Lock screen.

     Figure : Personalize Lock screen

     

  3. Click Browse to select one of the pictures available or find one on your computer.

• To alter the groundwork motion-picture show for the Desktop, use the following steps:

  1. On the Showtime screen, type Change desktop background. Then click Change desktop background in the Search results.

     Effigy : Search results for Change desktop background

     

  2. Select a new picture from those displayed or click Browse to find a moving picture in another location. Click Save changes when done.

     Figure : Browse button for choosing a new background moving picture

     

How do I alter my account picture?

Use the following steps to change your account picture:

1. Click the Settings charm, click Change PC settings in the lower right, then click Business relationship Picture.

   Figure : Account picture

   

2. Click Browse to discover another pic or click Create an account picture to use the camera to create a picture.

   Figure : Browse push button for choosing an Account moving picture

   

3. When done, click Cull image.

How practise I add together a folder to Commencement? (shortcut)

Apply the following steps to add a folder to the Showtime screen. The post-obit instructions show how to pin the Documents folder to Commencement; however, you can add whatsoever folder to Start from File Explorer.

1. On the Outset screen, type Documents to open the Search amuse, and the click Documents in the Search results.

   Figure : Search results for Documents

   

2. File Explorer opens in the Documents folder. Right-click Documents, and and so click Pin to Start.

   Figure : Pinning Documents to the Offset screen

   

3. The Documents tile displays on the Showtime screen.

   Figure : Documents tile

   

What'southward the difference between an app and other software?

In Windows viii you can use two types of software programs. Software programs designed specifically to be used with the Windows 8 Start screen are chosen apps. Programs designed to exist used from the Windows desktop or for previous versions of Windows are called Desktop apps.

What do you utilize the desktop for?

Use the desktop for Desktop apps or software that was designed for previous versions of Windows. You lot will observe that when yous click on some types of software from the First screen that Windows switches to the Desktop. When this happens, yous are using a Desktop application.

Where did the desktop gadgets get?

Desktop gadgets are non supported in Windows 8.

Where is Windows Media Eye?

To unlock the Media Center features, y'all need a split up product key for the Windows 8 Pro Pack and the Windows 8 Media Center Pack. These can be purchased and downloaded from Microsoft in much the same mode that Windows is activated.

Use the following steps:

1. Right-click in the lower-left corner to open up the bill of fare, and click Control Panel.

2. Click System and Security, click Organisation, and click Get more features with a new edition of Windows.

   Effigy : Upgrading Windows features

   

3. If required, type an ambassador countersign, so click Yes.

4. Click I want to buy a production key online and follow the instructions.

   Figure : I desire to buy a production key online selection

   

Where is Control Panel?

To open Control Console, motion the mouse to the lower-left corner and right-click to open the menu. Click Command Panel.

Figure : Opening Control Panel

Where is Device Manager?

To open Device Manager, move the mouse to the lower-left corner and right-click to open the bill of fare. Click Device Manager.

Figure : Opening Device Manager

Where is Chore Manager?

Use one of the following methods to open Task Director:

• Motility the mouse to the lower-left corner and right-click to open the menu. Click Chore Manager.

  Figure : Opening Job Manager

  

• Press Ctrl + Alt + Del on the keyboard to open the security screen. Click Task Manager.

Where is Windows Flick Maker?

Windows Motion picture Maker was non included in Windows 8. However, you can download Windows Picture Maker from the Microsoft website for free. To download and install Movie Maker, become to www.microsoft.com (in English) and search for Windows Flick Maker.

Where is Windows DVD Maker?

Windows DVD Maker is not included in Windows 8. To create your own video discs using the DVD format, use another software programme such equally CyberLink Media Suite.

Why can't I watch movies in Windows Media Player?

The DVD function is not included in Windows Media Player 12 which comes with Windows viii. To view DVDs, use some other software program such as CyberLink Power DVD.

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