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37 37  Navigating the start menu is much like before. You have your most used apps at the top of the start menu, and more options to navigate your computer at the bottom. You cannot directly change your most used apps, they will update over time based on your actual usage.
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39 -* File Explorer will bring up a file explorer window. This is where you can access documents, pictures and your home directory (H: Drive).
40 -* Settings will bring up your computer's settings. **Note** that this version of settings is different than the control panel of Windows 7.
41 -* Power gives you the options of putting your computer to sleep, shutting it down, or restarting it. \
39 +* File Explorer will bring up a [[file explorer window>>attach:file explorer.gif]]. This is where you can access documents, pictures and your home directory (H: Drive).
40 +* [[Settings will bring up your computer's settings>>attach:settings.gif]]. **Note** that this version of settings is different than the control panel of Windows 7.
41 +* Power gives you the options of putting your computer to sleep, shutting it down, or restarting it.
42 42  * All apps, which replaced All Programs, shows you **almost** all your apps. Some apps, like Microsoft Paint, are absent from this menu but you can find it if you search for them.
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44 - [[image:attach:file explorer.gif||height="250"]] [[image:attach:settings.gif||height="250"]]
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46 46  ===== {{id name="Customization"/}}Customization =====
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48 -There is a lot of customization that you can do with the Start Menu. You cannot change your most used apps but if there is an app you want to always be in your Start Menu you can pin it to the start menu and it will show up with the live tiles. Just right click on the app in the start menu and select //Pin to Start//. Speaking of live times you can customize them quite a bit. To remove a tile from the menu right click it and select //Unpin from start//. You can also move the tiles around by clicking and holding them then drag them to where you want them. You can group the tiles together and name the groups. Some Microsoft apps have live features such as news, and weather. You can enable and disable the live updating of these tiles by right-clicking them and selecting either //Turn live tile off// or //Turn live tile on//.
46 +There is a lot of [[customization that you can do with the Start Menu>>attach:customizing_start.gif]]. You cannot change your most used apps, but if there is an app you want to always be in your Start Menu you can pin it to the start menu and it will show up with the live tiles. Just right click on the app in the start menu and select //Pin to Start//. Speaking of live tiles, you can customize them quite a bit. To remove a tile from the menu right click it and select //Unpin from start//. You can also move the tiles around by clicking and holding them, then dragging them to where you want them. You can group the tiles together and name the groups. Some Microsoft apps have live features such as news, and weather. You can enable and disable the live updating of these tiles by right-clicking them, and selecting either //Turn live tile off// or //Turn live tile on//.
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50 -The start menu is technically a window and you can resize it or even make it full screen in the settings. To access the start menu settings go to **Start Menu > Settings > Personalization > Start** which is at the bottom of the list on the left. From here you can choose which folders appear in the start menu. This will allow you to add folders that you access a lot such as //Documents// or //Downloads// to your Start Menu for easy access. Instead of having a blank file explorer pop up it will bring you directly to the folder listed. This way you can access your //Documents// as you did in Windows 7.
48 +The start menu is technically a window and you can resize it, or even make it fullscreen in the settings. To access the start menu settings go to **Start Menu > Settings > Personalization > Start** which is at the bottom of the list on the left. From here you can choose which folders appear in the start menu. This will allow you to add folders that you access a lot, such as //Documents// or //Downloads,// to your Start Menu for easy access. Instead of having a blank file explorer pop up, it will bring you directly to the folder listed. This way you can access your //Documents// as you did in Windows 7.
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52 52  == {{id name="Accessing-Your-H:-Drive"/}}Accessing Your H: Drive ==
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54 -The file explorer is how you can browse the contents of your computer. To open a file explorer window go to your start menu and click file explorer. A file explorer window will open. The default page for the file explorer is the Quick Access view which shows folders you frequently use and a number of recently changed files. To access your documents or H drive just find them in the left side panel and click on them.
52 +The file explorer is how you can browse the contents of your computer. To open a file explorer window go to your start menu and click file explorer. A new file explorer window will open. The default page for the file explorer is the Quick Access view which shows folders you frequently use and a number of recently changed files. To access your documents or H drive just find your H drive in the left side panel and click on it.
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56 -You can modify the default folders in your start menu by going to **Start Menu > Settings > Personalization > Start > Choose which folders appear on Start** this will allow you to quickly access different folders from your start menu.
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55 +[[image:attach:fileExplorer.PNG||height="400"]]
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57 +You can modify the default folders in your start menu by going to **Start Menu > Settings > Personalization > Start > Choose which folders appear on Start** this will allow you to quickly access different folders from your start menu. For instance, if you want quick access to your Documents but don't care for the default file explorer, then you can disable the //File explorer// and enable //Documents//.
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60 +[[image:attach:settings_Start.PNG||height="400"]]
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58 58  == {{id name="Google-Chrome"/}}Google Chrome ==
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60 -Microsoft is pushing its new Edge browser (it's pretty much still Internet Explorer) pretty aggressively but we still suggest you use Chrome. There is a Chrome Shortcut on your desktop by default but to have links open in Chrome by default you'll have to change the default web browser. To do this go to **Start > Settings > System > Default apps** then scroll down to Web browser and choose Google Chrome from the list.
64 +Microsoft is pushing its new Edge browser (it's pretty much still Internet Explorer) pretty aggressively, but we still suggest you use Chrome. There is a Chrome Shortcut on your desktop by default but to have links open in Chrome by default you'll have to change the default web browser. To do this go to **Start > Settings > System > Default apps** then scroll down to Web browser and choose Google Chrome from the list.
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73 +== {{id name="Finding-Programs"/}}Finding Programs ==
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76 +The easiest way to find programs in Windows 10 is to [[search for them>>attach:search.gif]]. To do this press the Windows key on your keyboard and start typing the name of the program you wish to find. If you are wondering where the search bar in the start menu is, it's gone. But if you just start typing in the start menu it will load the search that you want.
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79 +If you don't want to search for a program every time you want to use it, you can [[pin it to the start menu>>attach:pin_start.gif]] or you can pin it to the taskbar.
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