Don Piller Agenda Windows 10 Overview Highlights User Interface - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

OASIS San Diego 2015 Don Piller

• Windows 10 Overview

 Highlights  User Interface Changes  New Apps  Overall Assessment

 Should I upgrade

• XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.1

The material out on the server that you can download contains many more slides with specifics that could not be included in this shortened presentation

Agenda

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• Solid Performer

 Running two Windows 10 installation at home

 My Wife and I both like it

 My 3rd system is being used to validate this class  Most Pundits/Gurus are at least satisfied

 Very few disaster stories

• Mostly from very different setups or unique requirements

 No Windows 8 (Vista) hew & cry of a disaster

• Very happy with interface

 Best of both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1  More like Windows 7 (XP) than Windows 8.1

 A desktop is a desktop not a tablet with a keyboard

Live Demo 1

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• Desktop is Back with a Start Menu

 Start Screen and Apps Screen are gone  Smart Corners are gone as they are no longer needed

 Right Mouse Options Menu in Lower Left Corner still exists (Yes!)

• Task Bar still exists and is more important that ever
• Charms are gone

 Good Riddance

• Much more customization than any previous version

 Many Win 7, Win 8 and now Win 10 additions  Nice but it does take some time to learn, understand and customize

Live Demo 2

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Live Demo 3

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Start Menu Tiles, Grouped and Labeled System Tray Task Bar File Explorer & Setting Optional Power & All Apps Fixed Search = Very Customizable Start Menu Icon All Right Mouse functions

• Start Menu has 3 main sections

 Start Menu Tiles  Recently Used – Upper Right?

 I don’t see the use?

 System Functions - Fixed

 Power  All Apps

 System Functions – Optional

• File Explorer
• Can also be on Taskbar & Start Menu
• Settings
• Confusion with Control Panel

Live Demo 4

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All Apps Menu

• Right Mouse for options
• Pinning to Start or Taskbar vs. Desktop Icons
• Creating a Desktop Icon if you really want to

 Select on Open file location

 Find the App that you want to place on your Desktop  Right mouse over the App  Select Create Shortcut – Accept the defaults  Right Mouse over the shortcut  Select on Cut  Go to your Desktop, right mouse over an open area and Select paste

Live Demo 5

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• Pinning to the Start menu or Taskbar

 Select the All Apps screen

 Right mouse on the Tile you want  Select the operation to pin or unpin any time  Uninstall options – Be careful

• Not recommended except for malicious Software
• You probably have more than enough storage
• You can remove any desktop icon or unpin without deleting the App

Setting up your Apps

Pinning, Unpinning & Creating Icon

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• Tiles on Start Menu

 Right Mouse over the Tile to change

 Unpin = Remove from present position  Resize

• Select from Options

 Turn Live Tile Off/On

• Tile continues to scroll Information
• New Tile Shown

 Pin or Unpin

Tile Options

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News Tile w/ Live Tile turned on

• Current Setting Screen shown
• All Control Panel items eventually migrated?
• Options and organization of Options is overwhelming

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Settings

• Comprehensive Security Included
• Browsers

 Edge is not ready for Prime time - Download Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox

• File Explorer

 Nicely enhanced

• File History and Backup

 Getting better all the time

• Cortana

 Tied to Bing Search and it takes some getting used to talking to your system

• Mail

 Rough around the edges

• Calendar

 Not bad – can be synched with Google Calendar

• People

 Don’t waste you time right now

• Groove Music

 Worse than players that it replaced

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New Apps

• Microsoft has hit another “Sweet Spot”

 (Clean Install or Simple Upgrade)

 Most people will choose Simple Upgrade = Easiest

• Should I upgrade

 Windows XP & Vista users go out and buy a new system  Windows 7 users (Clean Install or Simple Upgrade)

 Your operating system has 3-4 more years of total support  Is the performance of your current system satisfactory?  Does your current system exhibit any signs of failure?

 Windows 8.1 users (Clean Install or Simple Upgrade)

 Click on “Get Windows 10” icon this afternoon

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Overall Assessment

• How much data do you have?
• How important is it to you?

 Documents, Pictures, Videos, Music, and others?  What would be the results if some/all of it were lost?

 Is this the only copy that exists?  What would be required to replace it?  Can it be replaced?

• Only you can decide

 Stuff happens  Especially on computers rebuilding operating systems  Backing up is always a good idea

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How important is your data

Backup?

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Windows 10 Operating System OK All Programs Operational All Data installed Backup Setup & Working You’re done I Don’t Care I Care I Care a Lot Less than 64 GB Purchase 8-64Gb Flash $7 - $25 Greater than 64 GB Purchase External Disk Drive & 8 GB Flash $50 - - $100 Use Backup and Restore to save all your data Create a System Image & Backup and Restore all data

Disaster Strikes

Load Windows 10 Simple Upgrade

You Luck Out Your Data is all backed up Worse Case = System Image

Back up Options

Reuse for Win 10 File History & Recovery Reuse for Win 10 Recovery Drive

• Select on the Icon in the system tray
• Simple Upgrade is easiest

 Select on Upgrade and follow the directions

 Because some setting are brought forward you are more liable to:

• Not have a perfectly clean installation of the new operating system

 When you are done you are almost done

• Post install will be discussed in a few minutes
• Clean install requires more work

 I’d suggest that you plan to spend at least a couple of days for this option  Removes all your data, settings and programs  When you are done you need to re-install all programs and data

 You must have saved all this prior to doing the clean Install

 Reload all your programs

 You must have access to all your Apps installation programs, DVD, etc.

 Find and reset all you setting to your desired options

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Installing Windows 10

• Set up (Assumes Simple Upgrade Option)

 Take a quick look using File Explorer to make sure all data is valid  Start at your Desktop, Start Menu and Taskbar

 Get rid of things that you no longer need  Re-organize using Pinning & Unpinning  You want to only look at what you use

 Spend some time just looking around and getting familiar  Use your favorite Browser, Email and other high use Apps  Do some searches to see what happens

Post Install - Setup

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• Go to Control Panel > Backup & Restore

 Select on the Set up backup  Recovery (H)

 A partition on your internal Hard Drive  External Hard Drive can be used  Also a Network

 Default Let Windows choose

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Post Install

Set up Backup

• Windows 10 is a good operating system

 Make your decision  Backup your data

 This might be a good time to start

 Download at any time and install  Windows 7 & 8.1 users will feel right at home  A lot of new customizable features requires some learning

• Thank you for coming
• Hope you have a good time with Windows 10

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Wrap UP