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| Windows 8 : Internet Explorer 10 - Tiles and Pinning |
| If there is a site or web page that you will return to, you can choose to pin this page to your Start screen. When you pin a page, it becomes a tile that you can tap or click to return to that page instantly. |
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| Windows 8 : Internet Explorer 10 - The Address Bar |
| The address bar in the tile-based interface allows you to enter an address or URL (Uniform Resource Locator) using touch. It works using your mouse as well. When you touch or click the address bar, it changes to look like it does in Figure 1. |
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| Windows 8 : Internet Explorer 10 - Working with Content |
| The page in tile-based IE10 is dynamic, and you can interact with it. It reacts to touches, swipes, and dynamic gestures such as pinch and expand. You can perform several actions to get to the content you want to see in a web page in a form that you want to see it in. |
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| Windows 8 : Internet Explorer 10 - Tile-based IE10 |
| The tile-based version of Internet Explorer is meant to be an immersive experience. A website should be displayed with little or no browser interface shown onscreen, thus maximizing the content’s size. |
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| Windows 8 : Sharing Settings (part 1) - To access sharing settings |
| Among the sharing settings you can control are network discovery, file and printer sharing, HomeGroup connectivity, media streaming, and password protection. Network discovery allows your computer to be seen on the network by others and allows your computer to find other devices. |
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| Windows 8 : Network Connections - To view your current network connection |
| When you set up your computer, you give it a name. This friendly name, or hostname, is what you see when you browse a network. However, a hostname isn’t what a network uses to send traffic back and forth between systems. Networks use network addresses—they are the recognized endpoints where traffic is sent or received. |
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| Windows 8 : Network and Sharing Center (part 2) |
| The Internet Protocol Version 4 dialog box allows you to set a fixed IP address, which can be useful when you want your device to always appear with a known address; for example, when you want to configure a PC as a media server. |
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| Windows 8 : Disks and Storage Devices - Optical Discs, USB Flash Drives |
| A flash drive, or thumbdrive, is a set of memory chips packaged into a container with a bus controller. Nearly all thumbdrives are USB drives, and over time the capacity of these drives has grown substantially while the price has plummeted. Small USB drives are given away as prizes in cereal boxes. |
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| Windows 8 : Disks and Storage Devices - Dynamic Disks |
| A basic disk is one that contains primary partitions and logical volumes, with each having its own file system. In Figure 1, you see a disk subdivided into the maximum four partitions: three primary partitions and one extended partition that contains multiple volumes. |
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| Windows 8 Explorer : Searches |
| One of the more important functions that Windows Explorer provides in Windows 8 is an advanced search capability. There’s nowhere else in Windows that offers this capability (although there are third-party tools that do so). |
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| Windows 8 Explorer : Properties |
| Files have descriptive data written into them that tells a viewer more information about the file’s contents. Data about data is called metadata, but the Windows operating system calls this data properties. |
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| Windows 8 Explorer : Working with Files |
| A file is an object in the file system that can store data. Files can be text, pictures, music, video, and so forth. Some file formats are universal; for example, TEXT (TXT), JPEG, RTF, and TIFF files can be interchanged (opened by) various programs. |
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| Windows 8 Explorer : Moving Around |
| If you find that you need frequent access to a file or folder in a specific location, create a shortcut to it. To create a shortcut, right-click a blank portion of the Content pane and select New > Shortcut from the context menu. |
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