Page 22 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

It’s cloudy. Your sign-in account can now be stored online—“in

the cloud,” as they say. Why? Because now you can sit down at
any Windows 8 or 10 computer anywhere, sign in, and find all
your settings just the way you left them at home: your address
book, calendar, desktop wallpaper, web bookmarks, email

accounts, and so on.

It’s beribboned. The mishmash of menus and toolbars in desktop

windows (called File Explorer) has been replaced by the Ribbon: a
big, fat toolbar atop each window that displays buttons for every
possible thing you can do in that window, without hunting.

It comes with free antivirus software. You read that right.
Antivirus software is free, built in, and effective.

File History. This feature lets you rewind any file to a time before
it was deleted, damaged, or edited beyond recognition.

BitLocker to Go. This lets you put a password on a flash drive—
great for corporate data that shouldn’t get loose.

New multiple-monitor features. Your taskbars and desktop
pictures can span multiple monitors.

Screen reader. Narrator, a weird, sad, old feature that would read
your error messages to you out loud, has been transformed into a
full-blown screen reader for people with impaired vision. It can

describe every item on the screen and the layout of a web page,
and it makes little sounds to confirm that you’ve performed
touchscreen gestures correctly.

Storage Spaces lets you trick Windows into thinking that several
hard drives are one big drive, or vice versa, and simultaneously

gives you the incredible data safety of a corporate RAID system.

New apps in Windows 8 included Alarms & Clock, Calculator,
Voice Recorder, Maps, and Movies & TV.