Windows 10 offers a range of features and functions to its users. With Anniversary update it has offered more hidden features to perform a range of tasks. Let’s discuss top 10 amazing tips and trick for Windows 10 user.

Customize the start menu: Windows 10 offers you to customize your start menu easily. If you want some correction in live tiles you can simply do it by hovering your mouse over a tile and right-click on it to resize tile. You can make tile size smaller or even wider according to your needs. You can pin programs to the taskbar or unpin them from the Start menu effortlessly. Live tiles also update widgets constantly and to turn it off select the feature ‘Turn the live tile off’ and it will stop all updates. You can also choose the option Settings > Personalization to make edits of your choice.

Windows 10 Keyboard shortcuts: Here are some Windows 10 shortcut keys to make your work easy.

• Switch to recent window: Alt + Tab
• Snapping a window: Win + Left or Right or Up or Down arrow key
• Task view: Win + Tab
• Create new virtual desktop: Win + Ctrl + D
• Close current virtual desktop: Win + Ctrl + F4
• Switch virtual desktop: Win + Ctrl + Left or Right key

Open File Explorer to ‘This PC’: In a new form, File explorer opens to a view of recently used files and folders putting extra work to reach to the drives. You can change this back to an old familiar view by heading File explorer, then select View > Options from the Ribbon. Now the folder options window will appear, click on the “Open File Explorer” from the drop-down menu at the top and click “This PC” option.

Get Faster Updates with P2P: To ascertain your updates are downloaded swiftly and efficiently you can use peer-to-peer tech. To activate this, go to Settings > Updates and Recovery > Windows Update > Advanced Options and select how updates are delivered and enable “Get Updates from more than one place”. This way your system will grab updates from the system on both your Internet and local network.

Disable Windows updates from using your bandwidth: If you prefer not to share the bandwidth then you can turn it off using certain steps. To disable it, head to Start Menu > Settings > Update & Security > Advanced > Choose how updates are delivered.

Find My device: Windows aren’t just on desktops anymore thus using Find My Device feature make sense. It does exactly what its name suggest. Though it is not supported by a remote lock or wipe capabilities yet. To activate it go to Start > Update & Security > Find My Device then click on the change button and enable the “Save my device’s location periodically” option. When it’s on, you can log in to Microsoft account to check the last known location of your Windows 10 device.

Install Windows Store apps elsewhere: Earlier Windows didn’t allow users to install Windows Store apps anywhere else. It was a serious problem with those users who were using small SSD boot drive. To fix this issue and to save apps to external storage or on secondary drives head to Start menu > Settings > System > Storage (attached drive or SD card etc.). Now click on the drop-down menu under “New apps will save to” and choose the external drive you want to use.

Schedule system restarts: If you have certain pending updates which require your system reboot, you can schedule a reboot of your system on specific time using these step. To do so, go to Start > Settings > Updates and Recovery > Windows Update. If you have pending updates you can check them at the left side of the screen, from where you can schedule your system reboot by selecting “Select a restart time” option.

Stop annoying office ads: Lots of ads flow forth from Windows 10’s Get Office app, which is installed on the system by default. You can stop these annoying ads and notifications. To do so head to Settings > System > Notifications & Actions and disable the notifications from Get Office app. This procedure can be followed to silence Get Skype app ads as well and to manage your general notifications.

Remove old stuff: When you upgrade to latest Windows version (in this case Windows 10) your system keeps a copy of old operating system in a folder dubbed Windows.old in case you want your old OS back. If you are sure you are not going to use it again it’s better to get rid of it as it occupies GBs of your storage space. To do this, search for option “Free up disk space by deleting unnecessary files” and click on it. Select your primary drive and click on “Clean up system files” when window prompted. Now check for the “Previous Windows installations”, click on it and confirm you want to delete the files.

You can use these amazing tips and tricks to enhance your user experience working on Windows 10. These simple trick can prove handy and effective to save your time and efforts. Other than these tips and tricks you can use certain tools like disk cleaners, Cloud backup apps, noise reduction software etc. to perform certain tasks instantly. These tools can help you perform a range of tasks effortlessly like cleaning disk space, creating backups time to time, improving quality of photos etc.

Summary: Windows 10 is an effective operating system which offers a range of services to its users. You can perform a variety of tasks with its hidden features too. In this article, we can discuss major tips and tricks of Windows 10 which can be helpful to the user.

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