Windows 11 Full Tutorial - A 2 Hour Course to Learn and Master Windows 11 - Updated in 2025
Hello, my name is Sali Kaceli. The following is a comprehensive tutorial on using Windows 11. We will start with the very Basics and then proceed with more advanced features to master Windows 11 as you watch the video consider the quick guide posted in the video description the best way to learn Windows 11 is to also practice the described features handson while you watch the video as soon as you log into the system one of the first things that you'll notice is that the taskbar has changed it's changed the location and also the items in the taskbar also the options of the taskbar have changed you have the start menu the search option major Improvement in Windows 11 the virtual desktops and I'll get into more later as to how that works the widgets the integration of Microsoft teams chat and video conferencing as part of the operating system getting to the web Microsoft Edge Windows Explorer and then access to email part of the revamped user interface or UI you have a completely different color scheme and layout of the components in Windows 11 the login and log out has changed so it looks different here and even the shutting down of the computer it it's now in a new location in the start menu there are also some behind the scenes features and enhancements to the operating system with the emergence of the larger monitors that Windows allows you to resize a window by simply holding the mouse on The maximize button for any of the applications and you can choose a particular lay out there enhancements related to gaming there is a gaming mode also widgets so if you click here on widgets the taskbar is typically one of the tools of an operating system that it's used as a quick way to launch specific operating system functions so you want to get to settings for example you want to get to launch the different applications or launch your files so you need a way to get started in Windows 11 the taskbar is this set of icons here in the bottom now it's in the middle of the uh screen now some of the components of the taskbar and then how to customize the taskbar so one of the first options here is a start menu you'll notice the start menu has been revamped through the new user interface you can navigate pinned applications as part of your options you can get to all the apps in the operating system from here or there are also recommended apps or what you have used recently the next part of the taskbar is the search menu if we go to click on search and by the way you can get to the search by pressing the Windows key on the keyboard and it will launch the same thing the third option here is the virtual desktops so virtual desktops is a functionality where you can launch specific programs on a workpace so right now I have let's say word let's say five or six programs but then all of a sudden I need to meet with a client and instead of me having to clear my desktop and having to uh prepare my desktop to share my screen and so on I can come down here to the virtual desktops area click on it and create a new virtual desktop it's going to be a clean start I can uh follow up with a client work with them open new applications and switch between the multiple virtual desktops by retaining the previous settings to go back to the previous desktop I can simply click on or hold the mouse on Virtual desktops icon and then switch to my first virtual desktop where I'll get access to my apps co-pilot in Windows 11 to access co-pilot click on this co-pilot icon next to the search icon on the taskbar and then if you're signed in with a work account you'll be working through the cloud co-pilot application if you're using a personal account then it will use the desktop version of the co-pilot so in my case I'm going to click here on go to co-pilot for work and at this stage very similar to open AI for chat GPT here we can ENT The Prompt so we want to create a marketing plan for an MBA online program and then we simply click on submit we can also create images from here and this will most likely evolve from the time of this recording because AI is constantly changing and advancing at this point it's working to create to design an image uh if you use certain type of prompts you can also create bar charts visual representations of data the other cool feature as part of the new windows taskbar is the widgets to to access the widgets you can click on widgets and then you can have the weather you can have the Outlook calendar reminder Sports and you can add other widgets such as traffic and so on and if you scroll down down there is news and stock updates to the right of this there is the Microsoft teams video conferencing as part of this operating system then next Microsoft Edge which is one of the web browsers obviously then you have the file explorer and I'll get into more of those Concepts shortly and then email now to customize those settings for the taskbar you can right click on it and choose taskbar settings one thing that is different from previous versions is that you don't have the task manager and a whole bunch of other options you simply have now the task settings under task settings this is where you can customize whether you want search to show up as part of the taskar whether you want the task view to show up like those buttons that we saw down here whether you want them to be displayed or not if you have a touch screen you might want to enable the option for pen menu in most cases that would be enabled but if it's not this is where you enable it if you don't like the taskbar in the center how Microsoft has set it by default you can change it to be on the left and it will be very similar to the Windows 10 or Windows 7 if you have multiple displays you can control whether you want your taskbar to show up on all displays and this you'd have to have a check mark in here for that as part of the taskbar on the start menu area if you right click on it you have a bunch of options very similar to Windows 10 and Windows 7 where you can get to certain key areas in your computer so for example if you need to check the Disk Management or if you want to check the computer management devices and Tool and resources in your computer or if you want to get to the task manager this is how you now get to it the Run command and even shut down and restart the computer it's by right clicking on start menu on the far right you have this quick action center and we'll get into that later as well but for now here is where you can configure and connect to the Wi-Fi airplane mode and then change accessibility settings things related to the battery and so on so this is kind of the quick settings for your desktop to change your time clock and your computer you can do it from here along with adjustments of the notification settings while you are focusing on work the start menu in Windows 11 allows you to access applications installed on your computer the settings in your computer as well as files and navigate to the files and so on so it's basically a way to access what is available in your computer to access the start menu in Windows 11 notice that now it is centered in the bottom here we click on start this icon here in the bottom left and that's where the start menu is in Windows 11 notice at the very top of the start menu you have the search option and this is Windows search it's also the same function as over here to the right of the start menu right below the search option you have the pinned applications those are commonly used applications that have either been pinned by Microsoft by default fault or that you can pin them on your own manually if you don't want one of these applications pinned in here you can rightclick and choose to unpin it from the start menu if you want a particular application to show up in here let's say PowerPoint search for it and then right click on it and choose pin it search for the applications once you locate your application you can right click and choose to pin it to the start menu if we click on the start menu again we should have PowerPoint as one of the options notice I have to scroll down to access it if we want to move one of those to a different location in the start menu in the pinned area select it and then drag it up or down in your list of applications to the right of the pinned area we have the all apps this is how you can can access all the applications in your computer if you click on all apps notice that they are categorized alphabetically and you'll simply scroll down and access any of those applications some of them contain folders so if we click here on text Smith for example notice that there are various other options within that folder one application could contain other sub applications as part of of that main application further down here we have also the recommended apps these are applications that Microsoft is recommending for you to have access directly from the start menu these could be various files that you have used or various applications installed in your computer to remove one of those applications from the recommended list right click and choose remove from the list further down in the start menu we also have the option to log off this is the account that I'm log into this computer currently and if you wanted to switch accounts you'll click on it and then choose to change account settings or to lock the account or sign out on the right hand side this is where we have the power options we can choose to put the computer to sleep from here or we can shut it down or restart the computer furthermore we could customize the start menu by clicking on this empty space because notice we have all this this empty real estate here in the bottom between the account logged in and the power options to get to the settings of the start menu right click anywhere in this empty space between the two and choose start settings from here we can select a different view so if we wanted more icons to show up as more pins to be displayed by default it's basically some of the pinned apps and then recommended apps but if you want more of the pinned apps as part of that real estate you can choose to more pins and it will look like this notice more of them showing up or more recommendations more recommendations will shrink the space of the pin apps and it will give you more recommended options down here below if you do not want to show the Recently Added apps in the start menu you can turn this option off so so notice down here this is what I had installed recently these two applications if you don't want that options you can choose off and now those will no longer show up in the start menu to show the most used apps in the start menu in Windows you can select this option turn this to on and now if I click on the start menu they will show show up in here now this account I don't use it much so that's why you're not seeing any difference at this point I use this only for the recordings you can also choose to hide or show the recently opened items such as file explorer files and if you want to turn this off now notice that the recently opened files that I had from earlier they'll no longer show up as part of the start menu further down you can choose to show the various folders as part of the start menu so this would be items that you want to be displaying in here between the DL staff and the power options so we click on here and then let's say I want to show the settings there I want to show file explorer documents downloads music network settings or even personal folders it allows you to create personal folders in your computer as part of the start menu now if we go back to the start menu notice that down here I have all of these options that I can access the documents downloads or whatever I selected to add over here so that is how you use the windows 11 start menu the desktop is simply an area where you can place various icons in order to launch programs in your computer and a lot of other cases is you can place shortcuts to website or even shortcuts to files so in this case we have a bunch of the icons or programs here in the left now the difference is that in order for me to open an application from here for example Microsoft Edge I need to double click on these icons to open them up while from the taskbar here in the bottom if I'm launching something from the taskbar I'll click only one time in order to open that application as you install different programs different icons will show up on the desktop what shows up on the desktop depends on whether the application has been configured by default to put an icon on the desktop you can customize a view of it by right clicking on it and you have a bunch of options here you can change the view to have larger icons or different types of icons and whether to arrange the icons on your desktop a certain way align them and even to show or not show the icons on the desktop also you can create new shortcuts or new folders on the desktop so if I want a new text document there I click on new choose new document or new Excel document and there it is now of course to move those things around you can drag them at wherever you want them to delete an icon from the desktop that is quite obvious you simply select it and you press delete one of the key components of the desktop it's also the access to the recycle bin so typically anytime you delete something from your computer it's going to put it automatically in a recycle bin so if you wanted to retrieve something from a recycle bin double click on it and then it will display what you recently deleted here I can right click on it and choose to restore it to customize the desktop right click on the desktop choose to personalize it and then under personalize this is where you can change a lot of the different settings such as a color themes the lock screen and taskbar items and things like that fonts and so on and obviously here we are personalizing the background and so on you can pick different backgrounds photos change those contrasts by right clicking anywhere on the screen or you can change the display settings if I wanted to change the font size on the monitor the resolution and so on this is where I'll make those changes if I right click again on the desktop notice there are some additional options here opening an application and managing an application from Windows 11 now this is a very B basic concept that most of you have used but yet if somebody is for the first time trying to understand the windows 11 operating system this would potentially help so to launch an application if if the application is already on the taskbar you can simply click on it and single click and it will open up for example here Microsoft Edge if I wanted to open an application from the start menu you just simply click on start and then pick the application from here or under the all apps so in that case I'm simply finding it then clicking on it and then launching it if the application is also listed on the desktop and you want to launch it from the desktop here you'd have to double click instead of single clicking one of the features in Windows 11 in any application actually is that on the top right here typically you have these controls now on a MacBook or in a Mac OS those controls would be on the left hand side that you can minimize this app by clicking on the little minus icon in the bottom left and it will bring it down to the taskbar and you can get a preview or relaunch it by clicking on it again the other option is this minimize maximiz option what you see here on the screen this is a new feature in Windows 11 and this allows you with the emergence of the larger desktops you simply hold the mouse on the icon here on the middle one and then you can select to park this application in half of your screen or a certain position of your screen so if I want to just on the bottom right top Corner the fourth of the screen out click on this and now it's only on that part of the screen and then I can have something else on a different part of the screen to close the application you can click on X on the top right and that is standard with other versions in some cases when working on an application it crashed on you and you just need to somehow make sure to close it without rebooting the computer one of the ways to do that is to access or to close the application from the taskbar so let's say the application is here somehow it's misbehaving now I need to get to the taskar to close it to access a taskbar and by the way this has changed you right click here on the Windows icon and you click on task manager or you can simply go to the search option and type task manager and now this will give you something like this it will show up task manager and the apps that you currently have opened so if I wanted to end this app application forcefully I'll click on the application and then choose and task in some cases that application may not show up in this list and then in that case you can click here on more details and then find the application and choose end task to find it you click here on processes in this module of the windows 11 tutorial I'm going to go over how to switch between applications in Windows 11 the process is the same as previous versions of windows but for the purpose of understanding how the windows 11 operating system works I'll cover it here as well so let's say we have two or more applications opened and we need to switch between them and we have only one monitor let's say I wanted to switch to word one of the options is to Simply go to the taskbar in the bottom and then click on word and switch between the two if I have more than two applications opened obviously the process is going to be very much the same so I'd go the taskbar and switch between the applications here on the bottom another way to switch between the applications is to hold down the ALT key on the keyboard and then press tab this will display all the applications running currently on this computer and then keep on pressing Tab and switch to a different application or while I'm holding the ALT key I can go and click on a specific one to switch to it earlier I also covered that you can switch and have multiple desktops or multiple virtual desktops as well if I want to switch to a completely different desktop I'll go here to the bottom and switch to a new desktop desktop 2 let's say and from here I can launch a whole new setup a variety of applications in this module of the windows 11 tutorial I'm going to go over briefly how to use Windows search Windows search it's actually one of the cool powerful features of the upgraded Windows operating system instead of you having to scroll and locate a various application and identify where it is and so on you can click here on search and simply start typing that will search for apps it will search for all the components on the computer we'll search for documents uh the web and people photos videos and so on those search options can be customized by clicking here on these three dots or options icon on the far right and then customize various icons and also the search settings as well the search can launch it directly here by clicking on the Windows icon or you can press the Windows key and then simply start typing so you type the name of the application and then you just click on it and it will bring it up the other thing you can do is that you can search for settings in your computer so let's say you wanted to change the display settings you go here to the display area or any of the display components and then change the various settings like the scaling and so on another example would be for example the Wi-Fi if you're not sure how to connect to the Wi-Fi you can type Wi-Fi or Wireless and then click on it and it will take you to your Wi-Fi settings so the idea is anytime you need something instead of having to know where it is located you can search for it with an approximate word and the system will bring up that particular file or that particular setting or that particular application in this session of the windows 11 tutorial I'll demonstrate how to use file EXP Explorer in Windows 11 file explorer is a tool for navigating the files in your computer to access file explorer click here on file explorer from the taskbar and then on the left hand side we have the home option this is a new option in Windows 11 that contains by default a quick access options such as the desktop downloads documents pictures and so on favorites folders and items that you have marked as favorites and then recent files these would be files that you have been working on recently then on the left hand side options such as one drive or items that you have marked as favorites or marked for quick access then further down you have desktop downloads documents pictures and uh various key folders that you may want to access quickly further down we have the options for this PC and network this PC this is what lists the storage devices that you have in your computer by default every computer has C drive and then if you have a second hard drive it will be listed something similar to this but then if you have a cdrom drive in your computer it would be D drive typically or e Drive and then if you add a flash drive this is where it will show up so basically to access a any of those items you'll need to click on this PC and then further down this is where you can navigate the files and folders in your computer this is a recent update to Windows 11 notice that there are now tabs that you can open instead of opening multiple windows to navigate through your files in your PC you can now open a new tab very similar to a web browser for navigating the files now at the very top if we go let's say to a Loc that say downloads in this computer and if I want to create a new folder I can click here on new so notice we have these icons or menu items right below the tab here so if I want to create a new folder I click on new and then choose folder and then simply give it a name from here and I double clicked on it to access it now to create a new file I could create it either using word from the application or I could create the file directly from here as well so if I click on new word document I'm basically giving it a new name from here and then it will give me the option to double click on it and then open it in word and it will save it to the location that I created this file once you select an item notice that the other menu items in the top show up after the item has been selected so it's very similar to contextual tools in office applications to determine as to what these icons stand for you need to hold the mouse on them and it will display what the item is remember also that to modify any of these files you can rightclick on them and then you have other options as well related to that file if I want this folder to be listed here under my favorite folders all you have to do is is you right click on the folder and select pin this to quick access and Noti this point it will add it here on the leftand side the advantage of the quick access is that anytime I'm working in file explorer instead of going to downloads and then selecting my folder I can click here on the left hand side and it will take me directly to that folder now to copy a file right click and choose copy and then I can go to a different different folder where I want to paste it and right click in that location and then paste it obviously this is a simple concept but it's to demonstrate the functionality in Windows Explorer to rename this file right click on it and choose rename or click over here and the file name and then choose the rename icon notice there is also the Sorting option that I can sort them by name or by date and then there is the view option whether I want large icons or whether I like a listing of files or also the details for those files there is also the compact view the changing of the various views so if you want to see more files in a compact way You' select this option and you can also select from here whether you want to show the preview pane on the right hand side so if I click on this file it will give me a preview of what that document contains can even have checkboxes under View and then show this is where you can also select to show hidden items or hidden files in Windows further to the right we have these three dots this is where you can see additional options whether you want to select them all or the properties for this folder or options for file explorer if we click here here on options this is where we can configure in the system when you open File Explorer if you wanted to see the Home tab or if you want to go to this PC automatically here in the bottom this is also where you can define whether you want to open each folder in the same window or in its own window and whether single click or double click on items to open them here is how you can clear the history for privacy reasons in your computer if for some reason you mess up those settings you can also restore those defaults by clicking on this button restore defaults Under The View area and this is where we are getting more granual this is where you can specify additional options whether you want to show certain items and you can apply this to all the folders now if you make changes in your PC and you want to go back to revert back to the default options you can always click here on reset folders and that will reset all the settings to the default folder settings as I mentioned earlier you also have the tabed browsing in file explorer the advantage of this is that you can navigate to various folders in your PC and instead of interfacing between various Windows you're just interfacing via the various tabs in your computer with a 24 H2 update of Windows 11 there's new function fun ality related to Windows Explorer prior to this release if you right clicked on the file You' only see these little icons and didn't have the tags or the labels below the icons so now with this update you can right click on something press copy and then right click again and then select paste but it's more obvious as to the function for copying and pting in those files or folders same thing also with file so if you right click on this notice you have the options which are more meaningful at the very top here with the labels below them and then if you want to paste it in this case it's larger and in the past it used to be a tiny icon without the label below it so you'd have to know what it was now if you help the mouse on it it will tell you what that icon stands for and also what the shortcut for it is this segment of the windows 11 tutorial I'll demonstrate how to pin apps to the taskbar in Windows 11 now you can pin apps to the taskbar by simply dragging them from the desktop to the taskbar and just letting the mouse go let's say I want to pin the zoom application to the taskbar I simply can drag it to the taskbar and then let the mouse go and it will create a shortcut on the taskbar if you want to add another application to the taskbar go to the start menu search for the application or locate the application and then right click on it and choose pin to taskbar to remove an application from the taskbar right click on the icon and then select unpin from taskbar in this segment of the windows 11 tutorial I'll demonstrate how to change the location of the taskbar in Windows 11 in Windows 11 by default the taskbar is centered to the bottom of the screen if you want to change this similar to the prior versions of Windows right click here in the taskbar and select that taskbar settings scroll down under taskbar behaviors and then change the taskbar alignment from Center to the left then close the taskbar settings and then you are all set working with folders I find that most users don't fully understand working with files let's say I wanted to create a new folder here if I click on new up here I can choose to create a new shortcut or a new folder and a new bunch of other stuff here but for now I want to create just a new folder so I click on new and then choose folder and then I have the name of the folder and then you hit enter to move a file into this folder I can do it a couple ways let's say I have this file right here and I want to move it over here I can simply drag it and then it will put it in that folder drag and drop it's great as long as you're precise there's a danger in a drag and drop because sometimes you may drop a file in the wrong place so the best thing to move files around is by selecting them if there are more than one then you can either select all of them or select just a few of them or you can hold the control key and select random ones or you can click on the first one hold down the shift key and then select a few of them and then use these options up here by the way Microsoft in Windows 11 change this so we can cut these and then move them somewhere else this is the safer way to move files around or you can also right click click on Cut here and now I go back navigating to the top folder or I can go to the left and use navigation on the left and then let's say I want to paste those files in here right click and choose the option to paste or you have the paste icon on the top these may be very basic concepts but it's necessary in the workplace now one of the needs that I also find the users are not very familiar with in any version of Windows is how to create a compressed file or a zip file as it's called so let's say I have here this word 2019 folder and it has a bunch of stuff in there now let's say I want to send that to somebody in a compressed format because it has a lot of stuff in it to create a zip folder a zip file all you have to do is right click on it click on compress to zip file now the terminology here in Windows 11 has changed so we click here on create a zip file it's going to do its thing and it's actually putting all of these files including the folder and potentially sub folders into one single file for you to send away notice it says it's a zip folder it has a zip little icon thingy here and that's what You' need to send but you're sending one compressed package typically for large files instead of emailing them maybe share them either using one drive or Google drive or some kind of cloud file sharing platform now let's say that I received this file typically with a zip file you also need to extract those files notice there is an option for extract all items in this folder or you can right click on it and choose to extract all and that's a necessary process for any zip files for you to do on your end obviously you need to do this only when you're completely assure from a a safe sender notice it's going to by default extract it in the same folder that we had it however you can change it to a different folder you press extract and all those files at this point will be displayed in here notice it creates a new folder matching the zip folder and under that then there are the actual files the context menus for the file explorer and windows 11 have changed notice first the rounded Corners the visual look and feel and then these options have been kind of rearranged and the icons have changed more options this will bring more of the old look and feel from Windows 10 and that's how it used to actually look finally as you're accessing files in some cases there might be a need to track down hidden files in your computer there are certain places that the files are stored and you just need to make sure to kind of get to them or view them or do something with them so and one common area is for example if we go here under the users folder we go under this account my profile account notice that by default you see maybe 10 or 12 different folders in here however there are files and folders in there that are actually hidden by default and to view those files and folders going under view scroll down under show and then choose show hidden files or unshow hidden files and notice now app data you'll have this displayed so if you have a Windows PC with a network connection a wired connection obviously you simply take the wired connection and provided the port in the wall is active you simply plug it in and you should be able to connect to the internet if you have a wireless laptop or a wireless device with Windows 11 and you want to connect to a network whether at home or at your business in the bottom right here you'll see a globe with a little arrow like this so you'll need to click in this area it doesn't matter which area and it's going to bring up quick settings notice that currently the Wi-Fi is not turned on so I can click here to turn it on and notice now it's blue so typically this has to be blue it has kind of changed in Windows 11 and once this is blue for the wireless connection that means that it's on and available to view the wireless networks then we need to click here on this right arrow to click on the wireless connections and then you would pick the connection in your area or from your business typically the ones that have a lock means that there is a passphrase and you need to know the passphrase typically on your own router or in a business it might be a shared password through the IT department or in a lot of cases it's upon login click on the network connection and then you press connect it will prompt you to enter it if it doesn't need a password in this case I was connected before that's why it didn't prompt me then it will remember those settings under this little icon you can also check additional properties related to the wireless network to get to these settings obviously you can go to the settings area and Windows search and then choose wifi settings and then choose show wireless networks and this is where you pick to connect to another Network so that's another way to manage the wireless network and connect to the network in this module of the windows 11 tutorial I'm going to demonstrate how to connect to the internet this is really very basic but it's one of the aspects of learning about an operating system particularly if you're not sure how this is is done once you have connected your computer to the network in a wired way or a wireless way once you have done that typically you need to use a browser and the default browser included in Windows 11 is Microsoft Edge other browsers are Google Chrome Firefox and other ones such as Brave which is recent one based on Chrome as well but for more privacy notice that you have a search box here on the bottom and then you have an address bar on the top on the top that's where you type your url now that can search also if you type sell tutorials notice it'll perform a search that's because the address bar on the top acts as both a navigation tool and also a Search tool they are combined into one now a lot of users they search in this area here this search box so whenever you're typing in here cell.com for example that is actually not going to take you directly to the website you're just searching as part of the default search so it's going to give you a lot of different options here but not necessarily take you there directly so my suggestion to be effective and to know how this is done you just type what you want to type on the top part and not the second part well another thing to consider for the web browsers check the settings and modify the settings in your browser so you click on these icons here on the top and you go under settings and then here is where you can change whether it's a privacy whether it's the appearance look and feel of your browser starting page this is where you can set a new page so for example if I want to always start with a new page here and that new page should be ci.com that's
how I add it in here now that I change the default start page notice that once I open it up again it will take me just to that website that I configured earlier one of the tools that I find useful is also here under the settings and then which is the three dots up here and then under more tools there is this option also to cast this to a device to connect to a remote display in this segment of the updated window Windows 11 tutorial I'll go over some of the features in Microsoft Edge that were added with this update I have opened Microsoft Edge and notice on the right hand side we have this new sidebar and the sidebar you can search with Bing directly from here and obviously you can search from the top here as well but this is an option that it doesn't close the existing tab the Discover option you can search whether from this site based on this site or relevant information similar to this site other tools such as a calculator the clock various conversion tools games open Microsoft Office Outlook and add a variety of other applications from here so for example if you wanted to always open Gmail it can simply click on it and it will add this little icon on the right hand side now furthermore you can customize the sidebar by clicking here on settings and then selecting additional options from here if you do not want to see this sidebar you can click to hide it to bring it back click here on settings and then click on show sidebar another Improvement was the menus notice that the menus now are much more visually appealing with around corners as well another enhancement was the addition of Collections and collections are similar to bookmarks but you're adding screen clippings articles websites to to a particular collection so if you click here on collections you can create new collections by clicking on start a new collection and you can sort them however you want so to add this page to one of the collections you can right click on the tab and then click on add the tabs to a specific collection so you're adding all the tabs that we currently have opened to the tech collection another useful function in the updated Microsoft Edge is to automatically save money while you shop so if we go here to walmart.com and search for the word computer or whatever you want to search for notice at the top we have the option that says this site has coupons click on it and it will display current coupon codes that you can utilize from this website you can copy the coupon and then enter it during the checkout other enhancements also include the privacy settings so if we go here under settings and go under privacy search and services under balanced has also the option to block The Trackers from sites that you haven't visited content and ads and it blocks harmful track haers as well so this is selected by default and you can even make it stricter than what it is here another helpful tool is the web select feature which basically it allows you to select a whole bunch of text so if I click here on web select you drag the mouse to the section of text that you want to select and notice it's going to pick all of those text areas next we can paste what we copied from here in another application another great feature is also the option to read this page aloud when we click here over 400 free tutorials start learning and advance in your career free technology training access more than 400 free tutorials on the YouTube channel on Microsoft Office 2019 so the audio is it's fairly clear and accurate and it makes it very easy to read with a natural voice this as you notice also it highlights and Autos Scrolls the text to help the learner and those with reading difficulties another feature that is very helpful is and this is new as well is the web capture feature the web capture you can select either the whole page or you can capture a particular area you select the section that you want to capture and then you can copy this or mark it up we going to bring up The annotation tools similar to to this another nice feature in the updated Microsoft edge with the ability to launch a particular website or a tab as a separate app so if we have this website and we click here on the configuration then go under apps then you can click here under install this site as an app give it a name press install and then it will pin it to the start it will pin it to the taskar it'll can create the desktop shortcut and it can also auto start it when the device signs in you click on allow here this is how it will look and there will be an icon on the desktop and on the taskar to launch it other helpful tools with this update include also this area here if you go to settings and choose more tools you can obviously cast this to a media device you can even site this and this is actually pretty cool so if we go here to the YouTube channel you're not sure how to site this resource click on settings go to more tools click on site this and it will prompt us to pick what style for citations whether it's MLA or APA 7 and then you copy this and then put it in your paper as part of the citation you can pick whether it is a website and put the author's name the date it was published in the year you can pick today and then put some kind of annotation if necessary and the citation will look like this then you'll copy this and put it as part of your citations as part of your research paper other helpful tools include the math sober the math sober is basically if you want to use mathematical equations whether they are on a website where it will allow you to select those math problems or you can write and it will help you solve those particular math problems Windows 11 has a new feature called widgets here in the taskbar it's one of the main icons by added by default you click on widgets and you'll be able to see particular ones that the Microsoft has already put in there by default for you however you can customize those widgets by using the more options item here and you can make this large or medium or remove it completely you can go and add new ones pick the items that you want to add and customize the size and other options related how to shut down the computer in Windows 11 this might seem like a very easy and simple step to shut down or reboot the computer you simply go here under the start menu and then you click on the the power power icon in the bottom right from here select the shutdown option or the restart option obviously the restart option but clear everything from the memory if the computer is running into problem it is highly recommended that you first reboot the computer before you get too frustrated with a problem that you are running into when you put the computer in sleep mode it's not closing the programs it's keeping everything the way you had them before but just conserving energy and putting things to sleep the hibernate mode is actually more effective in saving battery life on your laptop but it takes a little bit longer for it to start up if you have a solid state drive the hibernate mode probably is the better option for conserving battery in this module of the windows 11 tutorial I'll demonstrate how to install the Windows updates and keep the computer up to dat we go here under the windows search or press the Windows key and then type Windows update notice that there are some updates here we simply press install now and the updates will be installed in the computer the other thing to remember is that you can pause Windows updates if you don't want the computer to be restarted during business hours or you want to pause them for a week and so on this is where you can change those settings if you want to look at the history of update you can click on Windows updates history and it will show you what has been installed in the computer further down here under Advanced options you can also choose to install the updates at certain hours of the day or at certain times you can choose when to receive the Windows updates under optional updates sometimes there are a driver software for your PC or non-crucial updates for your PC that might be helpful but it is important to keep your PC up to dat for security reasons for better performance of your PC and sometimes additional functionality as well in this segment of the windows 11 tutorial I'll demonstrate how to customize the look and feel of Windows 11 there are a couple ways you can do the the changing of their look and feel you can right click from the desktop here and then choose personalize and then under personalize you can change and pick themes so let's say I want to utilize this one it will adjust all the colors and everything related to that Windows theme I'm going to revert it back for now if you want to further just customize certain things for example the desktop settings if you wanted to change the The Sounds or change defaults or the cursor and so on this is where you'll do it as well to change the font size of your icons and components of Windows right click here on the desktop and choose display settings I'm showing you this from the desktop functionality however you can also search for it just choose display settings and then under the scaling you can change change this so that it can be larger fonts and larger icons or smaller if you prefer and screen orientation and things of that nature how to customize the windows 11 settings just like with any other operating system there is typically a need to go and modify particular settings in the computer so think of it like if you have an iPhone and you go to the settings area you can modify by a variety of things whether it's for the apps or the privacy and things like that regarding your device so the same thing here as well you can uh go under the search option to get to settings and this would be the easiest one you can press the Windows key on the keyboard or you press the search option and then type settings that's the quickest way to get to it once you click on settings this is actually a major Improvement in Windows 11 while in Windows 10 you had settings that had the different the old look and feel to them in Windows 11 Microsoft they are really outstanding uh work on restructuring them making sense and also visually appealing as well so the very top here you have the option about the system so you can change system related settings such as the name of your computer the updates about the computer and obviously under the system settings you can change settings related to the display the sound notifications power storage anything that is system related as far as devices and so on you can click on that and you'll be able to customize settings related to any devic is connected to your computer and the same under uh Network and so on then personalization this is where you change the themes and a look and feel of your operating system system and then under apps this is where you can click and choose default features or even and uninstall various applications in your computer so this is where you can add and remove programs from your computer now if for some reason you need to delete an application to remove it notice that this has changed in Windows 11 and you can click here on the three dots in the far right or in the configuration icon in the far right and then choose to uninstall it from here Additionally you have the gaming settings and also privacy settings and Windows update so all of that to say that very similar to an iPhone or a smartphone where you can change and customize the settings about that device the same idea is here as well you can also search here for a particular setting let's say your not sure where dis cleanup is located you can still search for it in this module of the windows 11 tutorial I will demonstrate how to customize the privacy settings in Windows 11 so you go in the start menu or the windows search either one of them and we type privacy settings now this on the left you'll have privacy and security and then you can change other stuff related to security as well but in our case here we are concerned primarily about the privacy settings so you can go here under General and you might want to turn off a lot of these options then we go back here under privacy and you're not done yet by the way you go here under the speech settings and then you change also the speech settings to change those to off basically you're not sending the speech patterns or whatever you say it be stored externally from your PC then you can go down under the ink and typing personalization you can turn off also the dictionary and certain terms and words that you type on the on the soft keyboard so that those are not stored outside of your PC additionally go under the diagnostic and feedback and you want to potentially turn all of these off and then under the feedback frequency so basically put the most minimum that it allows you to put in there of course take note of what you're turning off so that just in case something happens you'd come back to them if you go under the activity history and you can choose to turn that off as well you can clear the privacy setting there then go under the search permissions this is probably what you want to do for the safety of kids or the moderate search this has to do with the web content that is that's going to display in your computer as far as the cloud search content and so on you can turn these off as well in more privacy under location notice that there are also app permissions such as location and this is very similar to like if you have an iPhone you can control what apps can access your location and things like that it's very similar to that here as well you're just going here and then identifying which apps have access to your location settings and change change this by default or you can clear that history the same is with camera and microphone however for camera and microphone i' be cautious on turning things off from here for example if you're turning this off from Skype uh you're not allowing it at all for a specific app when you go to use that app you'll most likely have problems with using the camera or the microphone so I'd be very cautious on turning off the camera settings voice activ keep these off for the particular Cortana or keywords this would be like apple has hyeri Windows if you have this option on it's always listening for the word Cartana in this module I will demonstrate how to use the action center or quick settings Center in Windows 11 typically here in the taskbar on the far right of the desktop we have these options this is area a listing of items or functions that you can quickly access anything in blue that's active anything that is not in blue that's not activated at this point we can change the display we can change the sound settings and so on and the volume settings and you can go and more volume and so on there is also an edit icon in here and we can add additional items to the quick settings are area which Microsoft would actually have added these additional settings by default so I click here on ADD and let's say I want a cast option so I can connect to a remote display easily let's say I also want the NightLight option I want um the nearby sharing and also the project option then I click on done now those options will be available at any point by clicking anywhere in here and then selecting that particular option for quick access with a 24 H2 release of Windows 11 Microsoft is making changes to the control center the Quick Settings area so if you click here next to the clock on your computer you click on the control center now in a new feature is these set of icons that you can scroll up and down so we have here energy saver accessibility project and so on but if you click on this next page that will give you more options such as live captions hotspot nearby sharing in this module I'll demonstrate how to change the default printer or how to set up the default printer in Windows 11 by default in Windows 11 the windows determines as to which printer becomes the default so to set the default printer we go here under the search menu and then we type printers we go to printers and scanners and then the first option that we want to change to scroll down here below the list of printers and turn off the option for letting Windows manage it once we have uh turned off the option for Windows to manage the printer then we go to the particular printer that we want and then click on it and then this button will show up for making it as a default and notice here at this point it will state default in this module of the windows 11 tutorial I'll demonstrate how to connect to the windows 11 store think of the windows 11 store as the app store if you have an iPhone or the Google store if you have an Android phone so to access the App Store you click on the Windows start or on the search and and then you can simply search for store or you just click on the Microsoft store these are apps from Microsoft or third party apps that you are adding onto your PC to increase its functionality there is also in Windows 11 functionality or the option for you to be able to install Android apps as well and you'll do that primarily through the Amazon app store if we wanted an app installed whether it's Netflix or Whatsapp or whatever it is the apps here you simply click on it and then sometimes you might have to pay additional fee for it sometimes may not you can check the ratings you can check the description and uh so on and if you decide to install it then you can click on get it will associate the app with your Microsoft account you'll need to enter your Microsoft account login and it's going to be very similar to an app store from Apple or from Google and smartphones in this video I'll demonstrate how to change your Windows password there are a couple ways to change it if you're working in a corporate environment and you're connected to a network then obviously you change the password through the tools that the IT department has set up for you in most cases even if it's a network account you can change your Windows password by simply pressing control alt delete in your computer and then a prompt like this will come up and then you can click here on change password and then you can put in your old password the new password and confirm the new password as well and this is the quickest and easiest way to change the password the other options are also under the search if we go here to search and then change password we have more clicks that are involved in this step through this procedure but You' still reach to the same conclusion in this module of the windows 11 tutorial I'll demonstrate how to lock your computer if you're going to step away from your desk for a few minutes or for the rest of the day this is a very good practice to get into the custom of doing and obviously this is for security and maintaining your privacy and the security of your files so you can be on any application that you're working on and at any point that you want to lock your computer you simply can press the Windows key and the letter L on the keyboard and then it will bring you back to this option so it's basically going to bring you to the login screen again when you're ready to come back and start working again you can hit any keys on the keyboard enter your password in this segment of the windows 11 tutorial I will go over the Windows security settings and how to check your computer for viruses and malware Windows 11 actually comes packaged with its own Security Suite and firewall tools as well to get to those tools we need to go to the or one of the ways to get there is to open the start menu or the search window and then search for Windows security go to security settings and here it's going to give us a preview of actions that are necessary in your computer things that are okay in your computer so now to customize the settings click here on open window security and then set up one drive if we preferred to this is not really necessity this is basically Microsoft pushing One Drive and also trying to make sure that you're backing up your files online on the cloud and not necessarily lose them at some point in time then under the account protect login here with the Microsoft account on the left hand side we have here the firewall and network protection notice that there no action is needed at this point but you can go and click on it and check various firewall rules and advanced settings and customize those fire wall settings if you prefer under the app and browser control this can block unwanted apps and currently it's turned off you want to make sure it's turned on and you press put in your password and it will enable it for you under the device security there are additional settings behind the scenes here that it's utilizing such as the single core isolation the security of the processor level and so if we go here on under virus and threat protection on the left hand side this is where we can run a scan on your computer you can do a quick scan in my case it took uh 2 minutes and 31 seconds or you can change those scan options and do a full scan a custom scan and once you pick the type of scan that you want you click on scan now and it may take quite a bit of time if you have a lot of files and you choose the full scan option as the files are scanned typically it's going to show you the results and
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