Exploring Windows 8.1!!

This Instructable will give you a quick overview of windows 8.1, all of it's features and programs

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First we will take a look at the windows 8/8.1 start menu

As you can see it's quite a bit different then the start menu in earlier versions of windows

Next we'll take a look at the Windows Store

1. Windows Store Homepage

• Games Category
• Social Category
• Entertainment

• Photo
• Music & Video
• Sports
• Books & References

• News & Weather
• Health & Fitness
• Food & Dining
• Lifestyle
• Shopping

1. Homepage Categories

• Games
• Social
• Entertainment
• Photo
• Music & Video
• Sports
• Books & Reference
• News & Weather
• Health & Fitness
• Food & Dining
• Lifestyle
• Shopping
• Travel
• Finance
• Productivity
• Tools
• Security
• Business
• Education
• Government

Now let's take a look at the Side Bar

1. Search

2. Open a program

• Type in the name of the program in the search bar
• Click on the program to open it

3. Share

4. Start

• Goes to the Start Menu

5. Devices

• Play
• Print
• Project

6. Settings

• Control Panel
• Personalization
• PC info
• Help
• Networks (Internet Connection)
• Volume
• Brightness
• Notifications
• Power

- Sleep

- Shutdown

- Restart

• Change PC Settings

- PC & Devices

- Accounts

- OneDrive

- Search & Apps

- Privacy

- Network

- Time & Language

- Ease of Access

- Update & Recovery

- Control Panel

- Personalize

- Lock screen

- Account picture

- Picture password

- View recently used settings

Next let's take a look at Apps

1. A list of all the apps on your computer

a) To get to your apps :

• Go to the Start Menu

- Click on start in the bottom left corner

• Click on the drop down arrow on the bottom left

Now let's take a look at some new Apps on Windows 8

• Alarm Clock
• Finance/Money
• Food & Drink
• Games

• Health & Fitness
• Help + Tips
• Maps
• Music

• News
• Reader
• Reading List
• Sound Recorder

• Sports
• Travel
• Video
• Weather