Edge is a browser, which is an Internet application for exploring the web. Chapter 6 covers Edge in detail.
Scroll downward to see all that is on the web page you are visiting. Use these techniques to scrolclass="underline"
Mouse: Drag the scroll box on the right side of the screen up or down. If your mouse has a wheel, you can also turn the mouse wheel to scroll.
Touchscreen: Swipe the screen up or down.
Close Edge and the Weather app. Use one of these methods:
Mouse: Click the Close button (the X) in the upper-right corner of the app’s window.
Touchscreen: Tap the Close button (the X) in the upper-right corner of the app’s window.
Keyboard: Press Alt+F4.
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Chapter 5 explains how you can open a second desktop on the screen and in so doing keep some of your open apps on one screen and some of your open apps on another. When you’re running many apps, opening a second desktop is a great way to be able to switch quickly from one app to another.
Open apps appear as icons on the taskbar, but when you close an app, its icon disappears from the taskbar. Some icons appear permanently on the taskbar. For example, the File Explorer icon is always on the taskbar regardless of whether File Explorer is running. Chapter 5 explains how you can pin your favorite apps to the taskbar. Pinning an app to the taskbar places an icon there so that you can open an app quickly.
Press Alt+Tab and continue to hold down the Alt key after you press Tab. A window showing thumbnails of all open apps appears onscreen. While holding down the Alt key, press the left- or right-arrow key to move between the open apps to select one; then release the Alt key. The Weather app appears onscreen. Pressing Alt+Tab is yet another way to switch between open applications.
Chapter 5 demonstrates techniques for moving windows onscreen, changing the size of windows, and snapping windows to the side of the screen.
To close an app that is frozen (an app that is unresponsive), press Ctrl+Shift+Esc. The Task Manager opens. It lists all apps that are currently running. Select the app you want to close and then select the End Task button.
Use the App Bar
From the Start screen, open the Weather app if it isn’t already open.
The app bar contains functions specific to the current app. Display the app bar by selecting the Show Options button. (Refer to Figure 2-2.)
The app bar may appear across the top of the screen, the left side of the screen, or in both locations.
In the Weather app, the app bar leads you to different functions. Select Maps, for example, to see a weather map of the area where you live, shown in Figure 2-4.
Display the app bar in Weather again. Then select Historical Weather. A screen appears showing you weather trends over the past 12 months.
Display the app bar again and take notice of the Home icon. Wherever you travel in an app, you can return to the app home screen by selecting this icon.
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In most apps, you can select the Back button (a left-pointing arrow) to return to the previous screen you viewed. The Back button is found in the upper-left corner of most screens.
Add a Location in Weather
From the Start screen, open the Weather app if it isn’t already open. With the Weather app on the screen, select the Show Options button to expand the app bar and see the option names (refer to Figure 2-2).
Select the Favorites button on the app bar. The Favorites screen appears, as shown in Figure 2-5. Your screen will show a different Launch Location.
Select the Add to Favorites icon, which looks like a plus sign in a square. The Add to Favorites screen appears.
Type a location name, such as a city, in the box under Add to Favorites, as shown in Figure 2-6. As you type, matching location names appear below the box. If you see the location you want, select that name to add an icon for that location to the Places screen. No need to click the Add button, unless your location does not appear automatically.
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You can add other locations by repeating Steps 3 and 4.
Select the icon for the location you added. The Weather app displays full information for the location you selected.
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You can switch among multiple locations by using the Favorites button on the app bar.
Select Favorites in the app bar to see a screen with weather locations you chose (refer to Figure 2-6). From there, you can select a weather location to get reports and predictions about weather in a different city or place.
Change App Settings
On the Start screen, select the Weather icon if the Weather app isn’t open already.
In the Weather app, select the Settings button on the app bar. The Settings screen appears, as shown in Figure 2-7. Settings is the bottommost option on the app bar. If you have trouble locating it, select the Show Options button, the topmost button on the app bar, to see the buttons on the app bar.
It may be hard to remember whether you need the Settings panel or the app bar to do something. In general, functions on the app bar are used more frequently than those on the Settings panel. When in doubt, guess — that’s how discoveries are made.
FIGURE 2-7
Choose whether to show air temperatures in Fahrenheit or Celsius.
Choose a Launch Location option. The Always Detect My Location option tells the Weather app to note by way of your Internet connection where you are currently and give the weather report for that place. Select Default Location and enter the name of the place where you live if you want to receive weather forecasts for that place.
Select Privacy Statement in the Settings window if you’re interested in how Microsoft collects data about you when you use Weather and other apps made by Microsoft. You see a page clotted with legalese and other obfuscations.
Search for an App
Open the Start screen. A Search box appears at the top, as shown in Figure 2-8. If you select the Search box to type a search, the screen automatically changes to the Search screen, shown in Figure 2-9. More easily, you can just select the Search icon on the taskbar to search for an app (or anything else!).
In the Search box, type calc (the first four letters of the word calculator). The Search window shows you the results of your search, as shown in Figure 2-10. You can search for just about anything from the Search box.
Select a filter option at the top of the Search panel (refer to Figure 2-11) to redirect your search. For example, select Apps to search only for apps, Documents to search for files on your computer; select Web to search the web. You can select More to open a drop-down menu and search for any number of things, including folders, music files, photos, and videos.