Furthermore, if / when I decide to save a document to OneDrive, I have the option of doing so directly from within the application I’m using, such as Microsoft Word or Excel. I’d rather not have my entire computer be Web-enabled I’m not a heavy user of social media and if I want to search using a personal assistant, I can do so via my cell phone.
However, even though I have a OneDrive account, I chose to sign in with a local account. And you can use Microsoft’s “lite” mail and calendar apps. In addition, you can take full advantage of the features of Cortana, the new voice-capable search assistant (similar to Apple’s Siri, Android’s Google Now, and Samsung’s S Voice). The advantage of doing so is that whatever you do in Windows can be synced with the Web, with OneDrive (Microsoft’s cloud), with the Microsoft Store, and with social media. What follows is a list of three of the features I customized – some in multiple ways.īy default, Windows 10 prompts users to sign in (log in) to the computer with a Microsoft account. A few required a little ingenuity and/or digging. Some of the customizations I undertook were quick and easy. My primary laptop runs on Windows 7, in part because that’s the operating system most of my clients have and in part because – as most people probably would agree – Win 7 is a user-friendly, highly stable workhorse.) (As a software trainer, I need Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 machines in order to emulate my clients’ systems. My goal in so doing was to increase productivity, and also to make the computer look and feel more like the venerable Windows 7 that remains on my everyday laptop. When I received my new Windows 10 laptop, the first thing I did was customize it. Three features to customize in Windows 10
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