Where did it go? The normal location is at the bottom of the screen. If it has moved. Point your mouse at a blank space in the taskbar and left drag it back to the bottom. Right click on it and select lock to keep it there.
The start button is in the left and will bring up the Start Menu.
To the right of the start button is the Type here box to ask Cortana a question. If missing, Win+Q to open it.
The Task View button opens history of what you have been doing.
Then you will see icons for quick one click access to applications you have recently used and even websites you have been in.
. To the far right is the Notification button, the date and time, the internet indication, the sound control, and a up arrow to open a window of other applications running.
Lockscreen is a way to leave your computer when not using it. It leaves everything open and opens the startup screen requiring your entry password to continue. Use Win+L to lock it.
Resizing a window is possible if you are in the restore size of an open window. The upper right corner of a window has three button--minimize, size, and exit. If the size button is a single square representing a window you are at the restore size and can change the size of the window by dragging any corner or edge to the size you desire. You can even drag all the way left or right to make the window half screen, or to any corner to make it one quarter size. Drag to the top or double click the title bar and you will switch to full screen. If at full screen, double click the title bar to go back to restore size or drag the title bar down.
When does upper/lower case matter?
Email addresses can be mixed upper and. Case does not matter.
Password must be upper and lower case, exactly as you created them.
Website URLs can be upper or lower, but not the word after the extension (,com, etc). www.mysite.com amd www.MySite.com are the same. Whatever follows that will have a / and additional words that must be whatever necessary to get into a specific page on the site. /ABOUT is not the same as /about or /About.
Left click vs right click
Left click selects an item. Right click pops up a menu of selections.
One click or two?
Generally speaking, what is on the desktop is double-click. Or click once and press the Enter key. The taskbar items are all single click as are options within programs and websites.
Edge, IE, Chrome, Firefox, or what?
The browser you use is a personal choice. I like Chrome and the availability of extensions. Brave is similar to Chrome and allows the use of the Chrome extensions as well. IE or Internet Explorer has been a favorite for many over the year but is been fazed out by Microsoft. You have to hunt for it in Windows 10. Edge is not desirable for me and is even being rewritten by Microsoft to use a Chromium back end just like Google Chrome. Firefox has been a favorite for many over the years and works similar to Chrome. It was the non-Microsoft favorite for years until Google came out with Chrome.
Finding things on a webpage. Ctrl+F open the find box. Type what you are looking for on the page. In this case it found 19 times “Evans” is used.
Increase or decrease size of the content in a browser window
Ctrl+Plus to increase
Ctrl+Minus to decrease
Ctrl+Zero to bring back to normal
This is not the same as Win+Plus which activates the magnifier
Printing a web page or things on it. Use Ctrl+P to open the print dialog box. It will print the entire page.
Instead, select the portions of the page you want to print, then Ctrl+P. On the print window, select Advanced Options and then check Selection only.
Simple Speed Up solutions
Use www.crucial.com to analyze your computer. It will tell you how much RAM you have installed and what your computer is capable of using. Then it will show you the memory you should use to increase it.
Get a faster Hard Drive, maybe a Solid State (SSD). See article at https://davescomputertips.com/how-to-simple-upgrade-to-an-ssd/
Reduce the number of items found on your desktop. This will not slow down your processing, but will slow down the startup of your computer. Try to only have shortcuts on the desktop. Folders and files should be in your Document area.
Review what is in your startup folder. Open Task Manager and on the Details screen select the Startup tab. Disable all that you do not need. I disable most of them as you can see above.
Close programs not being used. The less open the less memory being used. Close the browser when not in use and reopen when needed.
Run the maintenance program on a regular basis to clean things up and remove malware you do not realize has been added.
Forcing a program to end.
Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open the Task Manager. In the lower left click Less details. Click on the program to force and ending, then in the lower right, click End task.
Forcing a web page to end
Press Alt+F4 to exit the page. Or mouse over the taskbar icon and click the X on the popup.
Where is the Control Panel?
Win+Q then type control and press Enter
The Clipboard has changed in 1809. It now stores all entries instead of just the last one. Use Win+V to view them and use them.
The Magnifier is activated using Win+Plus. Turn it off with Win+Esc
Opening File Manager more than once is easy with Win+E
A keyboard shortcut is a set of one or more keys that invoke a command in software or an operating system. They are typically an alternate means for invoking commands that would otherwise be accessible only through a menu, a mouse, or an aspect of the user interface. These shortcuts can expedite common operations by reducing input sequences to a few keystrokes.
For a list of Shortcuts see www.tinyurl.com/class-shortcuts
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