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Windows 8 : Running Programs and Apps (part 2) - Arranging program windows

You can use options on the taskbar shortcut menu to arrange all currently open program windows. To get to that menu, right-click an empty portion of the taskbar, or right-click the clock in the lower-right corner of the screen

Windows 8 : Running Programs and Apps (part 1) - Switching among open programs

Whenever you have two or more programs open at the same time, you want to be able to easily switch among them. You have several ways to switch among open programs, as discussed in the sections that follow.

Windows 8 : Getting Around the Windows Desktop - Using Jump Lists

Jump lists were a new feature of Windows 7 that enhance the usefulness of the icons and pin items on the taskbar. Windows 8 continues to use jump lists. Jump Lists add the most recently used objects from the application to a pop-up menu.

Windows 8 : Getting Around the Windows Desktop - Windows Start Screen, Using the Windows Desktop

As mentioned, the Windows desktop is the electronic equivalent of a real desktop. It’s the place where you keep stuff you’re working on right now. Every program that’s currently open is usually contained within some program window.

Windows 8 : Getting Around the Windows Desktop - Logging In

Obviously, the first step to using a computer is to turn it on. Shortly after you first start your computer, the Windows 8 Lock screen appears (see Figure 1). To log in, slide the display up.

Windows 8 : Getting Around the Windows Desktop - Terminology for Things You Do

When you rest your hand comfortably on the mouse, the left mouse button should be under your index finger. You don’t want to hold the button down, however. Just rest your index finger on it lightly. If you are left-handed, you can switch the orientation of the buttons using the Mouse applet in the Control Panel.

The Windows 8 Apps (part 3) - Mail, Maps

The Mail app is an extremely simple mail client that offers only the most basic functionality: sending messages, responding to messages (Reply, Reply to All, or Forward), moving messages to different folders (although you need to create new folders online), and deleting messages.

The Windows 8 Apps (part 2) - Finance, Internet Explorer

The Finance app is Windows 8’s one-stop shop for business, economic, and investing news and statistics, gathered by Bing Finance.

The Windows 8 Apps (part 1) - Calendar,Bing,Camera, Desktop

Calendar is Windows 8’s scheduling app, enabling you to create events for meetings, appointments, get-togethers, and all-day tasks such as conferences and vacations.

Using the Windows 8 Interface : Bypassing the Start Screen (part 2) - Pinning a Program to the Taskbar, Using Desktop Programs as the Defaults

We mentioned earlier that it’s jarring to switch between the Start screen and desktop interfaces because they’re just so drastically different. Unfortunately, Windows 8 often forces this transition by using many Windows 8 apps as the default programs for certain file types.

Using the Windows 8 Interface : Bypassing the Start Screen (part 1) - Booting Directly to the Desktop, Accessing Start Menu Items from the Taskbar

The bad news is that Windows 8 doesn’t offer any built-in option that you can set to boot directly to the desktop. There’s no setting, no Registry value, no group policy. We experimented with various startup and logon tweaks, but we found them to be flaky and slow.

Windows 8 : Introducing Storage Spaces - Creating storage spaces

Storage Spaces is the new storage virtualization and management technology Microsoft has developed. The concept of Storage Spaces has been around for quite some time; Windows Home Server used Drive Extender to make external storage manageable within Windows Home Server, and Storage Spaces takes a cue from this technology.

Windows 8 : Working with file systems (part 5) - Working with quotas, Working with quotas for user accounts

Working with disk quotas can provide a way to ensure that certain volumes allow each person using the computer to use only a predetermined amount of space. Consider the following example.

Windows 8 : Working with file systems (part 4) - Understanding Encrypting File System, BitLocker

Windows and NTFS provide a method for each person using a computer to encrypt his or her files, folders, and drives. Encrypting File System (EFS) is a method used to encrypt files and determine who can access the files.

Windows 8 : Working with file systems (part 3) - Auditing access to securable objects by using SACLs

After the security of discretionary access lists is in place, NTFS allows only those user accounts or groups with the correct permissions to access objects. However, others within an environment might attempt to access files or folders.

Windows 8 : Working with file systems (part 2) - Inheritance and cumulative effectiveness

The combinations of permissions are complex. Before you consider them, think about the inheritance of permissions and the fact that permissions for user accounts and groups have a cumulative effect. This alone can be confusing.

Windows 8 : Working with file systems (part 1) - Security within the file system

One of the primary focuses of the NTFS file system is security. People who use Windows have at one time or another tried to open a file on the network and received an Access Denied message for that particular file.

Windows 8 : Managing disks and storage (part 5) - Using Microsoft Drive Optimizer to organize data - The DiskPart utility

This section looks at the DiskPart utility in more detail, explaining the options available with DiskPart and how it might be used when performing maintenance on or troubleshooting a computer. The DiskPart utility and commands are designed to work directly with disks, volumes, and partitions.

Windows 8 : Managing disks and storage (part 4) - Using Microsoft Drive Optimizer to organize data - Check Disk (chkdsk)

The disk optimizer and Disk Cleanup utilities provide methods to handle poorly performing disks within a computer; chkdsk (pronounced “check disk”) performs disk repair to help correct problems with the drives themselves.

Windows 8 : Managing disks and storage (part 3) - Using Microsoft Drive Optimizer to organize data

Disk Defragmentation doesn’t clean up files and folders on a computer as much as organize them into a more efficient layout on the disk. It does this by consolidating free space at the end of the disk and by ensuring that system files and similar files are grouped together.

Windows 8 : Managing disks and storage (part 2) - Disk Defragmenter and Disk Cleanup

Files become fragmented as they are used; as a result, they are not optimally placed on the disks within a computer as they are read and written.

Windows 8 : Managing disks and storage (part 1) - Using disk management

The concept of disk management has been useful in understanding how disks are used for several versions of Microsoft Windows, and Windows 8 is no exception.

Windows 8 : Sharing printers - Configuring shared printers, Configuring printing permissions

Sharing printers on the network is an easy task that doesn’t take much time. You just need to think about whom you want to access your printer and which permissions are available.

Windows 8 : Sharing files and folders (part 6) - Understanding NTFS permissions - Identifying permissions, Taking ownership of a resource

With this permission sleight of hand, you might wonder how you can discover who has permissions to what. As you move deeper into the folder hierarchy and as permission inheritance is blocked at different levels, it can become confusing.

Windows 8 : Sharing files and folders (part 5) - Understanding NTFS permissions - Creating advanced security settings

NTFS permissions can get confusing because of the way they work. What you just saw was straightforward information—apply a permission, and it takes effect. However, as you investigate further, additional complexity becomes apparent.

Windows 8 : Sharing files and folders (part 4) - Understanding NTFS permissions - Modifying file or folder permissions

In addition to the permissions that you can set when you share a folder, Windows includes a second, more comprehensive set of permissions. Called NTFS permissions, these can allow or deny permissions on a per-file or per-folder basis on the Windows 8–based computer.

Windows 8 : Sharing files and folders (part 3) - Sharing a folder

By using the simple method, you can’t control the name of the share; it will always assume the name of the folder you’re sharing. Although you will want to do this in some instances, it won’t always be the case.

Windows 8 : Sharing files and folders (part 2) - Enabling folder sharing using the Windows 8 interface, Enabling folder sharing using the traditional interface

The ability to share files and folders remains one of the most basic reasons that organizations deploy networks in the workplace and why more people are deploying networks in their homes.

Windows 8 : Sharing files and folders (part 1) - Configuring the Network and Sharing Center

The Network and Sharing Center has been the primary location for managing networks in Windows for quite some time and remains available in Windows 8. This tool includes some high-level options for how sharing options operate in Windows 8.

Windows 8 : Configuring virtual machine networking and storage (part 3) - Assigning a virtual switch to a virtual machine , Assigning storage to a virtual machine

Virtual machines can have multiple network adapters and exist on multiple virtual switches. A number of additional features, such as bandwidth management, MAC address assignment (if an address other than the 00-15-5D-xx-xx-xx format is required), and VLAN identification, can be set as properties of the virtual machine.