Virtual machine installation Windows10, you need to close the virtual machine and adjust the "CPU & Memory" in "Configuration & ndash; Hardware" to 2G or more memory, and edit the "Hard Disk" size to reserve at least 9G of disk space.
For users who have used Windows 8.1 for a while, Windows 10 changes are worthy of recognition and easy to get started, but if you are upgrading directly from Windows 7 to Windows 10, it is estimated that you need a little adaptation time. After browsing through Windows 10, I found that there are still many places where I need to change the default settings, both in terms of preferences and related to the working environment of the virtual machine.
Installation boot interface settings
Windows10 The final stage of the installation will prompt the user to set up quickly. It is best not to select "Use Quick Setup" in this place, but to turn off unnecessary settings through "Customize Settings". Some choices.
Although it can be adjusted in "Settings" after installation, the customization of the installation wizard interface is more concentrated on Microsoft's "intention". In fact, other than "Location" The selections are all closed.
Clean up the installation file
The original old version of the system is still in the upgrade after upgrading to Windows10. After the installation, a lot of residual files are left. (Resource Manager selects the disk, right click on the disk – attribute – disk cleanup).
Old Windows system files allow you to fall back to the old system for a period of time, and immediately delete your own judgment.
After cleaning, you can close the virtual machine to "Configure & ndash; Hardware & ndash; Hard Disk" and re-edit the hard disk space because of the cache space requirement during installation, because it is upgraded from Windows 8.1, universal In the setting, the type and name of the virtual machine are changed.
, view weather, stocks, translations, simple calculations and searches.
If you want to call out the list of skills of Xiaona, click on the microphone icon and ask her directly: "What can you do?"
To enable Cortana and voice in your virtual machine, You need to enable "Setting & ndash; Privacy & ndash; Voice, Ink Writing and Typing". In the "Configuration" of the virtual machine, "Hardware & ndash; Sound" needs to check "Connected".
Start menu color and recent software list
It is estimated that many users and I always start from the system's "face value", right click on the desktop, select "personalize" to set the system theme and color.
In the "Personalization & ndash; Color" setting, open "Automatically select a theme color from my background" and the following two "Make" & Starts & rdquo; menu, taskbar and operation center transparent, This way the start menu and the bottom bar will change as the color of the background image changes.
With the new Start Menu mode, the program icon on the desktop is a bit repetitive. For this reason, I fixed the commonly used programs to "Start & rdquo; Screen", so the desktop is clean, if even recycled The station icon is not needed. Go to "Personalization & ndash; Theme & ndash; Desktop Icon Settings" to remove the check box. However, before removing the checkbox of the desktop recycle bin, you need to add it to "Quick Access" to eliminate the need to access it later. Obstacles when recycling bins. (Open the Recycle Bin, select "Fixed to "Quick Access" in the Explorer)
"Personalization & ndash; Start" settings, open "Show Most Used Apps" and "Recently" Open the item so that you can get back to the familiar Windows 7 Start Menu list of frequently used programs.
Display Settings
Parallels Desktop 10 and Windows10 both support the display of Retina screens. In the virtual machine's "Configure – Hardware – Video" check "Enable Retina Resolution".
For example, the MacBook of 13″, the recommended resolution of the installed Windows virtual machine is 2500 × 1600, the "change the size of text, applications and other items" in the custom display settings is recommended to be 200%.
As with the previous Parallels Desktop version, Parallels Desktop 10 sometimes forgets the scaling. Suddenly the screen zoom is restored to 100%. In this case, you need to go to the "Settings & ndash; system" In – Display, change the zoom ratio to 200% and apply it.
Privacy-related adjustments
The first conversation during Windows10 installation is to ask if the recommended settings are used, but the custom selections displayed in the lower left corner of the interface are not as obvious. If you missed the installation process, you need to adjust it yourself in Settings – Privacy.
For the working environment of the virtual machine, many settings in the privacy settings can be selected to be closed:
● General, allowing the application to use my advertising identifier
●General, open the SmartScreen filter
●Voice, ink writing and typing. When this item is closed, Cortana in the search bar of the menu will be closed.
●Feedback and diagnosis, the feedback frequency is changed to "Never", and the diagnostic data is selected as "Basic"
● Background application, allowing applications running in the background to retain only the necessary calendar, alarm clock and OneNote
control panel and settings
Windows10 personally feel that the interaction is a little backward is the various settings, the settings have Two, one is the "Settings" in the Start menu, and the other is the traditional "Control Panel" (the right-click menu on the Windows icon). The awkward thing is that the settings in these two places overlap and some are different. In addition to Windows updates, most of the content in the Settings panel can be said to be a flat version of the Control Panel item, and the individual settings are not as intuitive as in the traditional Control Panel. For example, in the language settings. There is no "Advanced Settings" in the Settings panel. If you want to enable "Allow me to set different input methods for each application window", you can only go through the traditional "Control Panel" to complete the settings.
Parallels Desktop When switching between a virtual machine and a Mac desktop, the input method of the virtual machine often changes back to English mode. For example, if you are editing content in Word, switch to the desktop of Mac and come back. I found that I had to switch the language once at the button (shift+option). If you want to avoid this, you can only keep "Chinese" in "Language – Change Language Preferences".
Extra Fonts, OCR and Voice Packages
The compatibility between documents is often caused by fonts. Windows 10 provides additional fonts for Simplified and Traditional Chinese to choose from, as well as additional languages for management. Voice package, OCR file package (current language voice package, OCR package is installed by default).
It is a little peculiar to enter this interface. Right click on the Windows icon in the start menu, go to the "Control Panel" and navigate to the "Font" item. After opening the font panel, select "Management Optional" in the left setting item. "Features", then it will be awesome to pop up the "Settings" panel style "optional features".
Modify the default browser
Windows 10's browser becomes Microsoft Edge, and several changes that can be seen intuitively from the interface style are the addition of web notes, reading lists, and sharing. The original IE is still there, you can select "Open with Internet Explorer" from the menu, or modify the default web browser directly in "Settings – Default Application".
The new browser looks good, but because the plug-ins that don't have ad filtering are usually the most used, Safari or Google Chrome. The mission of Edge and predecessor IE still exists for compatibility.
Edge can import IE's favorites, but has not found an intuitive and convenient collection of channels, so the current best way is to organize the content in "Resource Manager & ndash; User & ndash; Favorites", then Import to Edge.
Uninstalling built-in applications
As a virtual machine environment, many built-in applications of Windows 10 can be uninstalled, such as Xbox, Movies, Maps, Groove, Camera, and so on. Find PowerShell in all apps and run with administrator privileges, type something like get-appxpackage Microsoft.WindowsCamera |
The command line of remove-appxpackage completes the uninstallation.
how to uninstall Windows10 built-in App table The second column is the uninstall command line, the third column is the specific name and address in the app store, if you want to reinstall only need to use Edge to access the application's address in the app The installation is complete in the store.
PS: If you want to search for the official Twitter app in the Windows 10 app store, you can select Hong Kong in "Setting – Time & Language – Region & Language - Country & Region".
Parallels Desktop virtual machine is mainly used to compatible and process Office documents in my work environment, and use Outlook to receive company mail. I am glad that I have never touched Office for Mac, which saves a lot of trouble, so I have saved a lot of trouble. If your primary purpose is also compatible with Office documents, Parallels Desktop + Office for Windows is the right posture.