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

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Agenda  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 2

Live Demo 1  Solid Performer  Running two Windows 10 installation at home  My Wife and I both like it  My 3 rd 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 3

Live Demo 2  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 4

Live Demo 3 Start Menu Tiles, Grouped and Labeled File Explorer & Setting Optional All Right Mouse functions Power & All Apps Fixed Task Bar System Tray 5 Search = Very Customizable Start Menu Icon

Live Demo 4 All Apps Menu  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 6

Live Demo 5  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 7

Setting up your Apps Pinning, Unpinning & Creating Icon  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 8

Tile Options  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 News Tile w/ Live Tile turned on 9

Settings  Current Setting Screen shown  All Control Panel items eventually migrated?  Options and organization of Options is overwhelming 10

New Apps  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 11

Overall Assessment  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 12

How important is your data Backup?  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 13

Back up Options I Care a Lot I Care Greater than 64 GB Less than 64 GB Purchase External Disk Drive Purchase 8-64Gb Flash & 8 GB Flash $7 - $25 $50 - - $100 Reuse Create a System Image & Use Backup and Restore for Win 10 Backup and Restore all data to save all your data Recovery Reuse Drive I Don’t Care for Win 10 File History Load Windows 10 & Recovery Simple Upgrade You Luck Out Disaster Strikes Windows 10 Your Data is all backed up Operating System OK Worse Case = System Image All Programs Operational All Data installed Backup Setup & Working 14 You’re done

Installing Windows 10  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 15

Post Install - Setup  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 16

Post Install Set up Backup  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 17

Wrap UP  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 18