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isn’t relevant to your setup and work routine. Not even Microsoft’s CEO

uses every feature of Windows.

About This Book

Despite the many improvements in Windows over the years, one feature
hasn’t improved a bit: Microsoft’s documentation. Windows 10 comes with
no printed guide at all.

When you do find online help, you’ll quickly discover that it’s tersely
written, offers very little technical depth, and lacks examples. You can’t
mark your place, underline things, or read it in the bathroom. Worst of all,

the chaos of rapid Windows 10 releases means you’re never sure if the web
article you’re reading applies to your version.

The purpose of this book, then, is to serve as the manual that should have
accompanied the May 2019 Update. In these pages, you’ll find step-by-step

instructions for using almost every Windows feature, including those you
may not have understood, let alone mastered.

Incredibly, Microsoft intends for Windows 10 to run pretty much the same

on desktop PCs and laptops and tablets. This book covers them all (see the
box below).

About the Outline

This book is divided into seven parts, each containing several chapters:

Part I is really book one. These five chapters offer a complete
course in the basics of Windows 10. Here’s all you need to know
about the Start menu, icons and folders, the taskbar, the Recycle

Bin, shortcut menus, Cortana, the Action Center, and other
elements of the new world.

Part II is dedicated to the proposition that an operating system is a

launchpad for programs. Chapter 6, for example, describes how to
work with documents in Windows—how to open them, switch