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Note

It’s a common question: Once you record these sounds, where are they? Yes, you can email them
to yourself from within the app. But where on your PC are the actual recordings sitting?

Well, they’re buried, that’s for sure. Switch to the desktop. Make hidden files visible (on the View
tab of an Explorer window’s ribbon, turn on “Hidden items”). Navigate to (C:) Users [your
name] AppData Local Packages Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder_8wekyb3d8bbwe
localstate Indexed recordings. (Yes, there really is a folder called Microsoft.WindowsSound-
Recorder_8wekyb3d8bbwe.) And there they are—the actual .m4a music files that represent your
recordings. Now you can back them up, share them, copy them to a flash drive, whatever.

Weather

This app presents a lovely, colorful weather report. (The first time you use
it, you have to give the app permission to use your location.)

Right off the bat, you see the current weather (as though the full-window
background photo didn’t give it away). There’s the 10-day forecast
(Figure 8-33). Below that, you see the hour-by-hour forecast for today, so

you can see exactly what time your softball game will get rained out.

Tip
You can view this hourly section either as a cool graph (“Summary”) or as hourly tables of data
(“Details”).

But the most surprising part of the Weather app is the more complete
weather station that lurks in the left-side menu column. Here’s what these
icons do:

Maps are cool visual representations of current meteorological
data for the whole country: radar, regional temperature,
precipitation, cloud cover, severe weather alerts, and so on.