Page 21 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

This feature works only on machines equipped with an Intel

RealSense camera, which rules out any pre-2015 computers. But
Windows can also sign you in with your fingerprint, if your
machine has a fingerprint reader. Or even your eyeball iris, once
someone sells a computer with an iris scanner.

Rejiggered File Explorer. The basic desktop folder window—
once called Windows Explorer, now called File Explorer—has had

a makeover. The list at the left side now displays frequently
accessed disks, folders, and files. The sharing controls on the
Ribbon at the top have been cleaned up, too.

If You’re Used to Windows 7

If you’re used to Windows 7 or something even earlier—you never even
used Windows 8—then it’s probably worth reading about all the good
things Microsoft added in Windows 8, which still rear their lovely heads in

Windows 10:

Smartphone features. Some of Windows’ features are adapted

from smartphones, like a Lock screen that shows your battery level
and the time, a Refresh command that resets Windows to its
factory-fresh condition without disturbing your files, and a Reset

command that erases it completely (great when you’re about to sell
your PC to someone).

And there’s an app store, for ease of downloading new apps that

Microsoft has approved and certified to be virus-free.

Touchscreen features. Microsoft strongly believes that, someday

soon, all computers will have touchscreens—not just tablets, but
laptops and desktop computers, too. So Windows 10 is filled with
gestures that, if you do have a touchscreen, work as they do on

phones. Tap to click. Pinch or spread two fingers on a photo to
zoom out or in. Log in by drawing lines over a photo you’ve
chosen instead of typing a password.