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Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 2How to Use This BookWhen something in Windows 8 leaves you stumped, find the troublesome topic in this boo

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 92Beneath the names of your e-mail accounts, the Mail app lists its main folders: Inbox: Shown when you f

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps93 Outbox: When you send or reply to a message, the Mail app immediately tries to connect to the Internet and se

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 94Figure 5-4: As in all Start screen apps, the App bar rises from the screen bottom.These materials are the

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps95Composing and sending an e-mailWhen you’re ready to send an e-mail, follow these steps to compose your letter an

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 96Figure 5-5, for example, I’ve added the subject Memorandum for Success. Although optional, the Subject li

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps97 5. If you want, attach any files or photos to your e-mail. I describe how to attach files in the “Sending

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 98 1. Click the Start screen’s Mail tile. Mail opens to show the messages in your Inbox, shown earlier

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps99Respond and choosing Reply All from the drop-down menu.• Forward: Received something that a friend simply must

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 100Saving the attached file or files takes just a few steps. 1. Click the word Download next to the attac

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps101 4. Click the word Files in the File Picker’s top-left corner and then choose which library to receive the in

Introduction3 ✓ When told to click, you should tap. Quickly touching and releasing your finger on a button is the same as clicking it with a mouse. ✓

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 102 2. Open the Mail app’s App bar and click the Attachments (paper clip) icon. Open the App bar by ri

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps103 ✓ Mouse: Point in the screen’s top- or bottom-right corners; when the Charms bar appears, click the Search ico

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 104Figure 5-7: The People app stocks itself with friends from your social networks.That means you’ll need t

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps105 2. Right-click on a blank part of the People app, and the App bar rises from the program’s bottom edge. Then

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 106 The answer hinges mainly on which cellphone you own. Choose your Google account if you use an Andro

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps107 Clicking Delete removes the person completely. However, the Delete button appears only for con-tacts you’ve

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 108The Calendar displays your Facebook friends’ birth-days, for example — if your Facebook friends have cho

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps109 The Calendar opens to show a monthly view, shown earlier in Figure 5-9. To switch to other views, right-click

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 110Figure 5-10: Add your appointment’s date, start time, duration, and other details.Chatting through Messa

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps111To begin swapping small talk, er, philosophical conver-sations with your online friends, follow these steps: 1

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 4 Don’t forget to remember these important points. (Or at least dog-ear the pages so that you can look them

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 112see a notice from his or her own messaging pro-gram, whether it’s on Facebook, a cellphone, or a differe

Chapter 6Getting Connected and Having Fun through the Start ScreenIn This Chapter▶ Connecting to the web wirelessly▶ Playing music from the Start scre

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 114Why Do I Need an ISP?Everybody needs three things to connect with the Internet: a computer, web browser

Chapter 6: Getting Connected and Having Fun . . .115Connecting Wirelessly to the InternetWindows constantly searches for a working Internet connecti

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 116icon changes shape, depending on your surroundings: •Available: When the icon says Available, you’re w

Chapter 6: Getting Connected and Having Fun . . .117at home, here’s where you type in the same pass-word you entered into your router when you set up

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 118keep your cordless phone out of the same room as your wireless PC, and don’t heat up that sandwich when

Chapter 6: Getting Connected and Having Fun . . .119Figure 6-1: The Start screen’s browser offers hidden menus along the top and bottom.Playing Music

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 120onscreen real estate to advertising: Billboard-like tiles promote the latest releases by the latest arti

Chapter 6: Getting Connected and Having Fun . . .121 2. Sign in with your Microsoft account or your Xbox Live account, if desired, or click Cancel.

Chapter 1The New Start ScreenIn This Chapter▶ Finding out what’s new in Windows 8▶ Signing in to Windows 8▶ Understanding the Start screen▶ Getting us

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 122choose to play it on your computer, play it on your Xbox, or add it to a playlist. 6. Adjust the music

Chapter 6: Getting Connected and Having Fun . . .123Taking Photos with the Camera App Most tablets, laptops, and some desktop com-puters come with b

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 124your computer. If you see More Options at the pop-up menu’s bottom edge, choose it to tweak even more op

Chapter 6: Getting Connected and Having Fun . . .125 4. To snap a photo, click anywhere on the screen. To see the photo you just snapped, click

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 126 •Pictures Library: These photos live in your own computer, inside your Pictures library. You can see

Chapter 6: Getting Connected and Having Fun . . .127 2. Click a storage area to see its photos; while inside any storage area, right-click the scre

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 128 On a touchscreen, slide your finger up from the screen’s bottom edge to see the App bar. Depending on

Chapter 7Ten Things You’ll Hate about Windows 8 (And How to Fix Them)In This Chapter▶ Avoiding the Start screen▶ Avoiding the desktop▶ Stopping the pe

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 130 ✓ Add user accounts. The desktop’s Control Panel lets you manage a user account. You can toggle a user

Chapter 7: Ten Things You’ll Hate about Windows 8131 ✓ Click the Desktop tile. This app brings you straight to the desktop zone. To hide this tile or

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 6scratch in an attempt to please two camps of com-puter owners.Some people are mostly consumers. They read

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 132In short, the Start screen works well for most simple computing tasks. But when it comes to fine-tuning

Chapter 7: Ten Things You’ll Hate about Windows 8133minutes. And, when you belatedly press a key to bring the screen back to life, you’re faced with

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 134That leaves you with a more easy-going Windows. When your computer wakes up from sleep, you’re left at t

Chapter 7: Ten Things You’ll Hate about Windows 8135blank part of the taskbar and choose Properties from the pop-up menu. When the Taskbar Properties

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 136I Can’t Line Up Two Windows on the ScreenWith its arsenal of dragging-and-dropping tools, Windows simpl

Chapter 7: Ten Things You’ll Hate about Windows 8137the Administrator account. And the administrator usually gives everybody else a Standard account.

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 138any screen. When the pop-up menu appears, choose System. When the System window appears, look near the t

Chapter 1: The New Start Screen7Figure 1-1: The newest version of Windows, Windows 8, comes preinstalled on most new PCs today.Figure 1-2: The Window

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 8In a way, Windows 8 offers the best of both worlds: You can stay on the Start screen for quick, on-the-go

Chapter 1: The New Start Screen9Figure 1-3: To move past this lock screen, drag up on the screen with your mouse or finger, or press a key on the key

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 10When you’re in the door, Windows wants you to sign in, as shown in Figure 1-4, by clicking your name and

Chapter 1: The New Start Screen11 ✓ If you just bought the computer, use the account named Administrator. Designed to give the owner full power over

Dell and Microsoft: Partners in innovation.For more than 30 years, Dell and Microsoft have brought you ground-breaking technologies that are easy to m

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 12 Even while locked, as shown in Figure 1-3, your computer’s screen displays current information in its bo

Chapter 1: The New Start Screen13 •Keyboard: Hold down the key and press the letter C. •Touchscreens: Slide your finger from the screen’s right

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 14 4. Type a password that will be easy to remember. Choose something like the name of your favorite veg

Chapter 1: The New Start Screen15 ✓ Another new option in Step 3 is Create a PIN. A PIN is a four-digit code like the ones punched into Automated Te

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 16accounts, automatically stocking your address book with your friends from Facebook, Twitter, and other si

Chapter 1: The New Start Screen17Figuring Out the New Start Screen in Windows 8 The new Start screen in Windows 8 whisks you away from the traditiona

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 18As you work, you’ll constantly switch between the screen-filling Start screen and the traditional screen-

Chapter 1: The New Start Screen19 ✓ See the little bar along the Start screen’s bottom edge? That’s a scroll bar. Drag the scroll bar’s light-colored

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 20No matter which item you’ve chosen, it fills the screen, ready to inform you, entertain you, or maybe eve

Chapter 1: The New Start Screen21Figure 1-8: Point in the bottom-left corner of the Start screen. Slide your mouse up the edge to see a list of curre

Windows® 8FORDUMmIES‰by Andy RathboneDELL POCKET EDITIONThese materials are the copyright of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and any dissemination, distri

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 22 ✓ To cycle through your currently running apps, hold down the key and press Tab. The same bar you see i

Chapter 1: The New Start Screen23 ✓ Mouse users can right-click on a blank portion of the Start screen. A bar rises from the screen’s bottom showing

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 24To add programs or apps to the Start screen, follow these steps: 1. Press the Start screen’s All Apps b

Chapter 1: The New Start Screen25eager to impart a little humanity to your computer, calls it a Charms bar.Shown in Figure 1-9, the Charms bar’s five

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 26 ✓ Mouse: Point at the top- or bottom-right corner. ✓ Keyboard: Press +C. ✓ Touchscreen: Slide your fing

Chapter 1: The New Start Screen27Tap a Charms bar icon, and Windows gives a hint as to its purpose. For example, tapping the Settings area’s Screen i

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 28 ✓ Finance: A live tile, this shows a 30-minute delay of the Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P. Choose Finance to

Chapter 1: The New Start Screen29Google, and others — the People app grabs all your contacts, as well as their information, and stocks itself automat

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 30information. (Unless your computer has a GPS — Global Positioning System — the app narrows down your loca

Chapter 2The Traditional DesktopIn This Chapter▶ Finding the desktop▶ Finding the Start screen▶ Touching the desktop on a touchscreen▶ Working on the

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Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 32The Desktop tile looks like a miniature version of your real desktop, complete with your current desktop

Chapter 2: The Traditional Desktop33 The desktop, with its tiny buttons and thin bars, works best with a keyboard and mouse. If you’re using Windows

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 34mouse and keyboard. Anticipating your frustration, all Windows 8 tablets include at least one USB port fo

Chapter 2: The Traditional Desktop35 ✓ Start screen: Although hidden, you can fetch the Start screen by pointing your mouse at the very bottom-left c

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 36the mysterious doodad, and Windows pops up a little box explaining what that thing is or does. Right-clic

Chapter 2: The Traditional Desktop37Figure 2-2: Point at the bottom-left corner to reveal an icon that takes you to the Start screen. 2. When the

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 38 You can also fetch the Start screen by pressing the key on your keyboard or tablet.Cleaning up a messy

Chapter 2: The Traditional Desktop39 ✓ Show Desktop Icons: Always keep this option turned on. When turned off, Windows hides every icon on your deskt

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 40Figure 2-3: Try different backgrounds by clicking them; click the Browse button to see pictures from diff

Chapter 2: The Traditional Desktop41website’s picture and choose Set as Background from the pop-up menu. Microsoft sneakily copies the image onto you

About the AuthorAndy Rathbone started geeking around with com-puters in 1985 when he bought a 26-pound porta-ble CP/M Kaypro 2X. Like other nerds of t

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 42Figure 2-4: Snapping an app (placing it alongside your desk-top) lets you view an app from the desktop.To

Chapter 2: The Traditional Desktop43 4. Snap the app of your choosing against your desktop. These steps are much simpler to do than read. But he

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 44 ✓ You can’t snap an app to the side of the Start screen. The Start screen always consumes the entire scr

Chapter 2: The Traditional Desktop45 ✓ For a quick deletion rush, click the unwanted object and poke your Delete key.Want something back? Double-clic

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 46 ✓ If you delete something from somebody else’s computer over a network, it can’t be retrieved. The Recy

Chapter 2: The Traditional Desktop47Not sure what a taskbar icon does? Rest your mouse pointer over any of the taskbar’s icons to see either the prog

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 48 ✓ You can add your favorite programs directly to the taskbar. From the Start screen, right-click the fa

Chapter 2: The Traditional Desktop49 add a second time zone, click the Time/Date area and choose Change Date and Time Settings. Windows Media Cent

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 50 Task Manager: Coveted by computer techni-cians, this little program can end misbehaving programs, monit

Chapter 3Storage: Internal, External, and in the SkyIn This Chapter▶ Managing files with the desktop’s File Explorer▶ Navigating drives, folders, and

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Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 52Browsing the File ExplorerTo keep your programs and files neatly arranged, Windows cleaned up the squeaky

Chapter 3: Storage: Internal, External, and in the Sky53 Notice the hard drive bearing the little Windows icon (shown in the margin)? That means Wi

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 54 If you plug a digital camcorder, cellphone, or other gadget into your PC, the File Explorer window will

Chapter 3: Storage: Internal, External, and in the Sky55Figure 3-2: Windows 8 provides every person with these same four libraries, but it keeps ever

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 56Windows react when you insert something new into your computer, such as a CD, DVD, or flash drive? Earlie

Chapter 3: Storage: Internal, External, and in the Sky57Figure 3-4: Choose how Windows 8 should react the next time you insert a particular item, suc

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 58Notice the little arrows between the folder names. Those little arrows provide quick shortcuts to other f

Chapter 3: Storage: Internal, External, and in the Sky59Figure 3-6: Creating a new folder where you want it. 3. Type a new name for the folder.

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 60filename or folder name to select it, wait a second, and click the name again to change it. Some people c

Chapter 3: Storage: Internal, External, and in the Sky61are highlighted, along with every file and folder sitting between them. Windows 8 lets you la

Table of ContentsIntroduction ...1Chapter 1: The New Start Screen ...5What’s New in Windows 8? ...

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 62highlighted items whenever you — or an inadvertent brush of your shirt sleeve — press the Delete key. Be

Chapter 3: Storage: Internal, External, and in the Sky63 Moving the mouse drags the file along with it, and Windows 8 explains that you’re moving

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 64Depending on your screen’s current layout, some of the following onscreen tools may work more easily: ✓ R

Chapter 3: Storage: Internal, External, and in the Sky65can’t burn discs, remove any discs from inside the drive; then open File Explorer from the St

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 66DVDs come in both R and RW formats, just like CDs, so the preceding R and RW rules apply to them, as well

Chapter 3: Storage: Internal, External, and in the Sky67If you just want to copy files to a CD or DVD, perhaps to save as a backup or to give to a fr

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 68When the pop-up menu appears, choose Send To and select your disc burner from the menu. •Draganddro

Chapter 3: Storage: Internal, External, and in the Sky69Working with Flash Drives and Memory CardsDigital camera owners eventually become acquainted

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 70 ✓ Now, the procedure: If Windows complains that a newly inserted card isn’t formatted, right-click its d

Chapter 3: Storage: Internal, External, and in the Sky71 ✓ An Internet connection: Without an Internet signal, either wireless or wired, your files s

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition viChapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps ...85Adding Your Social Accounts to Windows 8...

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 72Figure 3-8: The SkyDrive app lets you keep files in a private Internet cubbyhole. When you spot the fo

Chapter 3: Storage: Internal, External, and in the Sky73Figure 3-9: Click the files to be sent to SkyDrive.The SkyDrive app makes it fairly easy to o

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 74your desktop’s web browser, a chore described in the next section.Accessing SkyDrive from the desktopIf t

Chapter 4Working with AppsIn This Chapter▶ Opening a program, app, or document▶ Installing and uninstalling apps▶ Updating apps▶ Seeing the apps you’r

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 76expanded the Start button, turning it into a full-screen launching pad for your programs. I explain the g

Chapter 4: Working with Apps77 •Keyboard: Press the Windows key ( ). •Touchscreen: Slide your finger inward from your screen’s right edge and then

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 78 If you still can’t find your program on the admit-tedly crowded Start screen, follow these tips for othe

Chapter 4: Working with Apps79Adding and Deleting Apps Apps, which are mini-programs specialized for single tasks, come from the world of smartphones

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 80Adding new apps from the Store appWhen you’re tired of the apps bundled with Windows 8 or you need a new

Chapter 4: Working with Apps81 As you see more of the Store, you see several more ways to sort the available apps, as shown in Figure 4-3.Figure 4

IntroductionT his Pocket Edition isn’t intended to make you a whiz at Windows; instead, it dishes out chunks of useful computing information when you

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 82 A page opens to show more detailed information, including its price tag, pictures of the app, reviews

Chapter 4: Working with Apps83Note: When you update an app, it’s not updated for every account holder on the computer. Each person has to update it f

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 84the screen’s left side. To switch to an app, click it. To close an app, rightclick its thumbnail and choo

Chapter 5Engaging the Social AppsIn This Chapter▶ Adding your accounts▶ Setting up e-mail▶ Sending and receiving files and photos▶ Managing your cont

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 86Windows 8 about your Facebook account, for exam-ple, and Windows 8 automatically stuffs your Facebook fri

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps87 •Mouse: Point at the top- or bottom-right corner to summon the Charms bar. Then click the Start icon that app

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 88 2. Enter your accounts into the Mail app. To add accounts, summon the Charms bar, click the Setting

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps89Figure 5-2: Import your Facebook friends into your People app.Understanding the Mail App Windows 8 comes with a

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition 90If you need to add a different type of e-mail account, you do it through Internet Explorer on the Windows

Chapter 5: Engaging the Social Apps91Figure 5-3: The selected e-mail’s contents appear on the right.To see the mail sent to your account, click the a