My Windows 10 (includes video and Content Update Program)

This book is part of Que’s Content Update Program. As Microsoft updates features of Windows 10, sections of this book will be updated or new sections will be added to match the updates to the software. The updates will be delivered to you via a FREE Web Edition of this book, which can be accessed with any Internet connection. To learn more, visit www.quepublishing.com/CUP.

Author Katherine Murray has been writing about technology for more than 25 years and has worked with every consumer version of Windows since Windows 3.1.  Murray will help you learn how to:

• Master Windows 10 innovations you like and keep the older techniques you’re comfortable with
• Let Cortana, your new personal digital assistant, help you find what you need
• Adjust the Start menu so it works the way you want (not the other way around!)
• Learn to use Windows 10 on PC or tablet
• Streamline your browsing experience with Microsoft® Edge, the new state-of-the-art web browser
• Find, download, install, and work with the best new Windows Store apps
• Copy, move, and share files using File Explorer
• Use the Skype app to make super-easy, free video calls
• Access all your favorite media with the new Groove Music and Movies & TV apps

After writing about technology for 35 years, Katherine Murray is still a computer geek. This is a fascinating time to be writing about technology. She has seen personal computing change from big, slow, cryptic desktop-hogging machines to small, sleek smart devices we easily can tap our way through. She has worked with every version of Microsoft Windows there’s been, loving some versions (such as Windows 7) and loathing others. (Remember Windows Vista or, worse, Windows ME?) Katherine was part of the thumbs-up crowd when it came to Windows 8.1 but watched as Microsoft’s vision tanked because users weren’t quite ready for such a huge change in the way we work with our computers. Windows 10 Fall Creators Update represents the best of what Microsoft has learned about the balance of features, flashiness, and functionality, with even a little fun thrown in.

In addition to writing about technology, Katherine works as a hospice chaplain and pastors a Quaker church in Noblesville, Indiana.

Tentative Table of Contents

Chapter 1    Hello, Windows 10!

Chapter 2    Connecting and Managing Your Desktop and Devices

Chapter 3   Accomplishing Windows 10 Essential Tasks                           

Chapter 4    Using Cortana: Your Personal Digital Assistant

Chapter 5    Personalizing Windows 10

Chapter 6   Securing Your Computer—for Yourself and Your Family                                           

Chapter 7    Discovering, Using, and Sharing Favorite Apps

Chapter 8    Working with Your Files in File Explorer                

Chapter 9    Streamlined Surfing with Microsoft Edge

Chapter 10    Staying in Touch (and in Sync) with Windows 10                     

Chapter 11    Bringing Out Your Inner Artist with Photos and Paint 3D                                 

Chapter 12    Getting Your Groove on with Favorite Music  

Chapter 13    Entertainment for the Gamer in You               

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