
Cortana functions as a Microsoft cloud-based voice assistant in Windows, offering advanced capabilities beyond search and integrating with accounts, privacy settings, and access to apps like calculator and sticky notes.
Learn how to use cortana in microsoft edge by accessing edge settings and advanced options, enabling cortana features, and optimizing browser productivity.
Access Microsoft OneDrive by using the start menu, selecting apps, and signing in or creating a free account to enable online access.
Discover Microsoft OneDrive, a cloud file hosting service offering 5 GB free storage and paid plans up to 1 TB, enabling access and sharing of documents from any device.
Learn to upload and download data with OneDrive, view online, select folders, and save files to your local hard drive while exploring OneDrive storage and premium options.
Learn how to add, color, delete, and backup sticky notes in Windows 10, using the start menu or search, and restore notes from a backup.
Learn to create shortcuts for sticky notes, snipping tool, and step recorder in Windows 10, enabling quick access without typing names or navigating menus.
Pin frequent folders and recent files in Windows 10 File Explorer quick access, and customize options to open File Explorer to quick access or this PC.
Learn how to use step recorder to capture every step of a software installation in Windows, from starting a recording and navigating options to saving and opening the captured steps.
Learn how Windows firewall blocks unauthorized access, inspects traffic between private networks and public networks, and protects private data while allowing access to public areas.
Navigate to Windows firewall in the lower left area, choose private or public settings, and keep it enabled to protect your PC from unauthorized access.
Learn how Windows Defender provides built-in anti-malware and antivirus protection in Windows 8 and later, including access, quick/full/custom scans, updates, and history.
create a password-protected local Windows 10 user account by navigating to Control Panel, User Accounts, change account type, and add a new local user instead of a Microsoft account.
Explore gpedit: the local group policy editor that centralizes management of computer and user settings, enabling policy configurations, control panel options, and desktop behavior in Windows.
Create a gpedit shortcut on Windows to access gpedit.msc quickly. Right-click, create the shortcut, enter the path, name it, and open it for quick security policy access.
Disable wallpaper changes using the local group policy editor by setting the prevent changing wallpaper option, then switch to not configured to re-enable the default display.
Hide a hard drive in Windows 10 using Group Policy Editor by configuring user configuration, administrative templates, and Windows Explorer to 'hide specified drives in my computer', then restart.
Learn how to lock drives using group policy editor by configuring administrative templates under Windows settings to restrict access to drives such as a, b, c, and d.
Use the local group policy editor to remove and prevent access to the shutdown, restart, and sleep options, then set them to not configured to restore access.
Learn how to install and uninstall a program using the Windows 10 control panel, guiding you through clicks, prompts, and confirming choices on a Windows 10 computer.
Windows 10 is the latest release of Microsoft's Windows operating system and the successor to the underwhelming Windows 8 (and Windows 8.1).
Windows 10 features
The familiar Start Menu, which Microsoft replaced with Live Tiles in Windows 8, returned in Windows 10. Users can still access Live Tiles and the touch-centric Metro interface from a panel on the right side of the Start Menu, however.
Microsoft Windows 10 Continuum allows users to toggle between touchscreen and keyboard interfaces on devices that offer both. Continuum automatically detects the presence of a keyboard and orients the interface to match.
Windows 10's integrated search feature allows users to search all local locations, as well as the web simultaneously.
The familiar Start Menu, which Microsoft replaced with Live Tiles in Windows 8, returned in Windows 10. Users can still access Live Tiles and the touch-centric Metro interface from a panel on the right side of the Start Menu, however.
Microsoft Windows 10 Continuum allows users to toggle between touchscreen and keyboard interfaces on devices that offer both. Continuum automatically detects the presence of a keyboard and orients the interface to match.
Windows 10's integrated search feature allows users to search all local locations, as well as the web simultaneously.
Windows 10 security
The operating system also includes virtualization-based security tools such as Isolated User Mode, Windows Defender Device Guard and Windows Defender Credential Guard. These Windows 10 features keep data, processes and user credentials isolated in an attempt to limit the damage from any attacks.