- Make Cortana respond to voice commands
For a hands-free operation, click on the Cortana search bar, select Notebook from the left menu, choose Settings, and enable the 'Let Cortana respond to "Hey Cortana"' option.
Now repeat the phrase anytime to activate Cortana.
- Make Cortana respond only to you
You can now ask Cortana to respond only to your voice. Head back to the Settings in the Notebook and press the 'Learn my voice' button and speak the phrases to teach Cortana your voice.
- Cortana natural language search
Since Cortana can understand natural language you can use it for complex search tasks. For example, ask Cortana to 'Find pictures from August' and the intelligent assistant will rummage through your local and online files and apply the appropriate filters to fetch results.
- Share your preferences with Cortana
You can get better recommendations if you let Cortana know your preferences. For example, open Cortana's Notebook and head to Eat & Drink to define your choice of cuisine, price range and more.
Now repeat the process for other sections as well.
- Send an email with Cortana
You can also use Cortana to send an email hands-free. Say 'Send an email to [Name]' followed by the message.
Cortana searches for the [Name] in the People app and composes the email with the text you spoke. If you don't wish to make any changes, say 'Send'.
Cortana can also help you as you browse the Internet. To enable it in Microsoft Edge, go to Settings > Advanced Settings >View Advanced Settings and under 'Privacy and Services' enable 'Have Cortana Assist Me in Microsoft Edge'.
The new Start menu doesn't bring back Control Panel to the menu list, but you've still got the power user menu from Windows 8. Just right-click on the Start icon or use the Win + X keyboard shortcut to bring it up.
You can now save documents as PDFs without any third-party software as both the Modern apps and the traditional desktop programs offer the option as part of their standard printing options.
The new Mail app in
Windows 10 supports a couple of gestures for common tasks. Click on the gears icon in the app to bring up the Settings and switch to Option section.
You don't need any third party software to browse the contents of an ISO image. Right-click on an ISO image and click 'Mount'.
The ISO images are auto-mounted as virtual discs and you can then access them from the File Explorer.
A contact in the People app can include an email address, work/home address and more. And depending on what information has been added to the contact, you can use the app to launch a Map view of the address or compose an email to the contact.
Edge has a distraction free view for reading web pages that you can switch to by clicking on the Reading View icon (or pressing Ctrl + Shift + R on your keyboard) .
To configure the Reading View head to Settings and scroll down to the Reading section.
- Move Photos from your phone
Plug your Android/iOS phone to your
Windows 10 computer using the regular microUSB cable. This will launch the new Phone Companion app with information about your phone.
Now scroll and select the 'Import photos and videos into the Photos app' option.
- Enable new features in Command Prompt
The new Command Prompt in
Windows 10 allows you to use Ctrl+C or Ctril+V to copy and paste commands more easily.
To activate the feature, simply open the Command Prompt, right-click its title bar and select enable the new features under the 'Edit Options' section.
You can easily take charge of the settings that synced from the current installation to your online account. Head over to Start > Settings > Accounts > Sync your settings and disable any of the listed settings that you don't want to sync with your
Microsoft account.
You can make sure you are using the maximum power of your main processor on a desktop PC running Windows 10 by heading to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options.
Here click Change Advanced Power settings > Processor power management > Minimum processor state and change it to 100%.
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