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gives you stats like the average high and low for today’s date, the

record high and low for today’s date, and monthly averages for
rainfall, snowy days, and rainy days.

Places. Here you can set up tiles that show you, at a glance, the
weather in other cities around the world that might interest you.
Hit the button and type the city’s name.

News. The next icon presents tiles that represent individual
news articles about weather.

There are settings to explore in Weather, too. You can specify F or C for the

temperature readings, and you can ask the app to auto-detect your location
for weather-report purposes.

Windows Accessories

This folder in your Start menu harbors 14 small, less-often-used apps. Here
they are, in the order they appear in the folder.

Character Map

Your computer is capable of creating hundreds of different typographical
symbols—the currency symbols for the yen and British pound, diacritical

markings for French and Spanish, various scientific symbols, trademark and
copyright signs, and so on. Obviously, these symbols don’t appear on your
keyboard; it would have to be the width of Wyoming. You can type the

symbols, but they’re hidden behind the regular keys.