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Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly Issue #943 Volume 19 Number 1 November 5, 2021 Dear Friends, Welcome to Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly Issue #943. Thank you very much for subscribing and for being a part of our Cloudeight family. We appreciate your friendship and support very much! Please share our newsletters and our website with your friends and family. If you're not getting our InfoAve Daily newsletter, you're missing out on a lot of good stuff! It's free and it only takes a few seconds to sign up. We'd love to have you with us. Visit this page to sign up for our Cloudeight InfoAve Daily Newsletter.
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From Windows 10 to Windows 11 We’ve been testing Windows 11 for about a month now, and what we’ve noticed most are the similarities between Windows 10 and Windows 11. There are more similarities between them than there are differences. Moving from Windows 10 to Windows 11 is much easier than moving from Windows 7 or Windows 8 to Windows 10 was. Windows 11 seems like what Windows 10 should have been. It’s more logical, more intuitive, and cleaner looking. In short, if you can use Windows 10, you’ll have no trouble with Windows 11. But if you can’t upgrade or don’t want to upgrade, you won’t be missing out on many striking new features – at least not so far. That’s not to say Windows 11 is perfect – it is not. Some parts of it seem unfinished. Here’s an example. Microsoft has made no secret of the fact that they’re going to deprecate the Control Panel and move everything to the Settings app. And most Windows users were aware of that. But in Windows 11, Microsoft, oddly, moved File History from Settings > Update & Security to the Control Panel > System and Security. Take a look. File History – Windows 10
File History Windows 11 – In the Control Panel
We can only guess that File History will be moved to the Settings app in a future version, but for now, it’s in the Control Panel. If you notice in the screenshots above that I’m not using File History, it’s not that I don’t like it or don’t trust it. I really like File History. The only reason I’m not using it is that I have OneDrive with one terabyte of backup space that I get free with Microsoft 365. So, I do have everything backed up; I hope you do too! The Good Stuff The Settings app in Windows 10 is a sprawling affair best utilized in full-screen mode. Moving from category to category required you to click a “Home” button at the top to go back to the Settings app Home page to select a new category. The Windows 10 Settings app
The Windows 11 Settings app The Windows 11 Settings app has a menu icon at the top-left that launches a drop-down menu listing all Settings categories. No more going back to the “home” page and hunting around for a setting.
Windows 10’s Ease of Access Windows 10 Ease of Access can be opened quickly using the Windows Key + U shortcut. Ease of Access allows users to change accessibility settings. The format is not clear, so many accessibility settings go unused by the Windows users who need these settings most.
Windows 11 Accessibility (Ease of Access) Ease of Access is called Accessibility in Windows 11. And you can still access the Accessibility settings home page by using the Windows key+ U shortcut, just like Windows 10. Windows 11 simplifies Windows 10′s Ease of Access settings by showing all categories on the Accessibility settings home page. So, it’s easy to find what you’re looking for. For example. If the text on your screen is too small, click on Text size. Then use the slider to make the screen text as big as you need it to be.
The Windows 10 Start Menu The Windows 10 Start Menu is a vast improvement over the sprawling full-screen tiles of Windows 8. Windows 10’s Start menu features a hybrid list of apps, programs, and tiles. Few Windows 10 users use the Start menu tiles so mostly they just add clutter.
And while you can pin tiles of your favorite programs to the Windows 10 Start menu quite easily, to me at least, they look messy. Most people use the alphabetized Start menu on the left, and/or taskbar or desktop shortcuts to launch their favorite programs. The Windows 11 Start menu The Windows 11 Start menu, to me, just makes sense. In the screenshot below, you’ll see that I have eighteen of the programs and apps I use most – and sorted by type – in the ‘main’ Start menu. You can see I have my browsers, image programs, and text programs grouped together. And you can drag the icons around to put them in any order you want. Plus “taskbar” search is right there at the top of the menu – so we’ll be calling it the Start menu search in the future. Note the icon at the bottom left in the screenshot below. Click that icon to shut down, restart, or log out of your computer.
And if you want to see all your programs and apps in alphabetical order, you can do that too. Click “All apps” at the top-right of the Start menu (see above) and you’ll get a list of all your apps in alphabetical order. See?
And if you want to go back to the main Start menu again, just click “Back”. The new Windows 11 icons Windows 11 just seems logical and more well thought out than Windows 10. Even the icons look more like what they represent, don’t you think?
Windows 11 is more like Windows 10 than you might think There’s more to like about Windows 11 than to dislike, and more similarities to Windows 10 than differences. If you’re planning on buying a new computer soon, and you buy one with Windows 11, have no fear. If you can use Windows 10 – you can use Windows 11. We’ll slowly be updating all our Windows 10 tips for Windows 10 as time goes by as well as including some just-for-Windows-11 tips as more of you start using Windows 11. And if you like Windows 10…no problem! We’ll continue to use Windows 10 on some of our computers and Windows 11 on others. If you like Windows 10 or if your computer won’t support Windows 11, you’ll be fine using Windows 10. And you have plenty of time left to use it too! Windows 10 will continue to be updated and supported until October 14, 2025. That’s nearly four years from now. We’ll continue to write tips for and answer questions about Windows 10 until Windows 10 is no longer supported… that’s a long time from now.
Save Time: Use These CTRL Key
Shortcuts Today, we’re going to remind you about one of the most basic time-saving things you can use in your daily computing life. Shortcuts. In today’s post, we’re going to remind you how handy Ctrl Key shortcuts can be — and why you should use them whenever you can. They will save you time. And what’s more basic than time? We either have too much of it or not enough it… and, not to be morbid, but we’re all going to run out of it. So, why not save as much time as you can? And remember, these shortcuts can be used in any version of Windows including Windows 11. OK ready? Let’s save some time with Ctrl Key shortcuts! Let’s say you’re reading a page on the Web and you’re looking for a particular word. Do you: a.) Scan the page manually for the word? b.) Use the browser’s search feature in the browser toolbar? c.) Press Ctrl + F to open the page search dialog? d.) None of the above. The answer is C. If you’re looking for a word on a page in your web browser, word processer, text editor, PDF viewer (and many other programs) just press Ctrl + F to open the “Find” dialog. Type in the word(s) you’re looking for and press Enter. That’s it! Just remember F stands for Find. Sure, you can use the program’s search feature too, but why? The CTRL + F shortcut is faster and easier. OK. If you’re on a page you want to print, do you search for “print” on the toolbar, or look for the printer icon, or just press Ctrl + P? Right! You press Ctrl + P to print the page. It’s the fastest way to print. OK now… you’re using your browser and you want to open a new window? Do you just click the browser’s shortcut to open a new browser window? Nah, just press Ctrl + N. Same thing if you’re using an email program and you want to open a new email compose window. Ctrl + N and type your email. If you’re working on a document and you want to save it, you can press CTRL+S instead of clicking ‘File’ ‘Save’. If you want “File” > “Save as” you’ll find that Ctrl + S/ works in many applications. If you want to view your browser’s history, with your browser open use the Ctrl key shortcut, Ctrl + H. And if you want to view a list of things you’ve recently downloaded, with your browser open use the Ctrl + J. Let’s review: Ctrl + F = Find something on a page – in a browser, text editor, PDF editor, eBook, etc. To remember this easily, think F = FIND. Ctrl + P = Print the document you have open. Whether it’s a web page, a Word doc, PDF file, text file, etc. Think P = PRINT. Ctrl + N = Opens a new window in the program that’s running. Think N = NEW. Ctrl + S = Saves the document you’re working on. Think S = SAVE. Ctrl + H = Shows your browser’s history. Think H = History Ctrl + J = Shows a list of downloads in your browser. Think J= ? I give up! J=Downloads! Junk? And let us not fail to mention these Ctrl Key shortcuts: Ctrl + A = Select All Ctrl + C = Copy Ctrl + V = Paste Ctrl + X = Cut Ctrl + Y = Redo (Reverses a previous undo.) Ctrl + Z = Restores a deleted file instantly when used immediately after deleting a file. It also restores accidentally changed or deleted text in a document. Windows
Accessories: What’s in it for you? The Accessories menu has been on every version of Windows since Windows XP. But back in the days of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and even in Windows 7, Accessories was listed under “A” for “Accessories”. Makes sense. But in Windows 10, it’s listed under Windows Accessories and therefore it’s listed under the “W” section near the bottom of the Start menu. And Windows 11 calls it "Windows tools" It used to be near the top of the Start menu and easy to find, but now in Windows 10, it’s called “Windows Accessories” so it’s near the bottom of the Start menu. Windows Accessories in Windows 10 But just because Windows Accessories is buried near the bottom of the Start menu doesn’t mean it’s not useful. On the contrary, Windows Accessories contains a lot of useful Windows apps including Notepad, WordPad, Character Map, Paint, and many more. Let’s have a look…
Hidden in the Windows Accessories menu is a bunch of useful stuff. Sorry for that extremely technical language! When you click on Windows Accessories (above) you’ll see a menu open.
As you can see there are a lot of useful Windows apps hiding in the Window Accessories menu – things like Character Map which helps you make stuff like æ Ø ß ¿ – characters not normally available on your keyboard – well at least not on my keyboard. You’ll also find WordPad, Notepad, Sticky Notes, Snipping Tool, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Quick Assist, and more. And if anything in the Accessories menu is something you use often, you can make a shortcut on the Start menu or Taskbar. All you have to do is right-click the item you want to put on your Start menu or Taskbar and choose “Pin to Start” or click “More” and then “Pin to taskbar” (see below):
And now you know what’s in the Windows Accessories menu. Windows Tools in Windows 11 In Windows 11, Windows Accessories is called Windows Tools. And the strange thing is that when you open Windows Tools in the Windows 11 Start menu, you'll find it opens in the Control Panel \ All Control Panel Items \ Windows Tools applet.
Like Windows Accessories in Windows 10, you can right-click any of the items in Windows Tools and pin them to the taskbar or Start menu. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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