Win8 together to create a personalized desktop

  
Win8 performance has surpassed Win7 in all aspects, but because many users are not familiar with its alternative style, so in a short time, everyone is not willing to completely replace the operating system. In fact, it is not difficult to understand Win8. Just let us build the most personalized Win8 desktop. After doing this, the Win8 system naturally becomes very familiar.
Multi-window browsing in separate screens
In the Win8 operating system, after opening multiple programs, you can browse other open but suspended programs from the sidebar while executing the current program. For example, while browsing sports reports in the picture below, you can also see the graphic content provided by Bing Tourism.

Split Screen Browser Program Window
Open more programs, just click the mouse to the right to see a thumbnail list.

In addition, by dragging the divider on the screen left and right, you can switch the suspended program (small sidebar) to the current program (larger window program).

Switching the current program

Switching the Bing search to the current program
Opening the desktop personalized life
It is a very good way to familiarize yourself with the Win8 operating system by setting up a personalized desktop. . Move the mouse to the right side of the screen, pop up the charm bar, click “Set”, then click Change PC Settings to enter the following interface. The first option in the upper right corner allows the user to change various lock screen images.

Personalization
Replace the start screen.

Replace the start screen
Create a user avatar, the avatar can directly reference the local picture, or use the camera to take photos.

Create user avatar
Create colorful program icons
Windows8 system icon changes are also very convenient, for various programs on the desktop, you can freely change the user's favorite icons, icon files can be used by the system You can also download it yourself from the Internet.
Right click on the blank space on the desktop, click “Personalize", click “Change desktop icon”, the following dialog box pops up. Select an item that needs to be changed, click on the bottom of the “change icon to ”.

Desktop Icon Settings
The Windows 8 system itself provides professional icons.

System Icons
Right-click on any program icon and click on <;Properties”. , select the corresponding icon file, press OK.

Properties
Select “change icon", select “Browse” from the pop-up dialog box, and change the penguin to the icon file provided by the operating system.

System icon file
You can also download the icon format file from the Internet, find the storage directory, click “OK” you can replace it.

Network icon
Font setting ClearType preview effect
Press CTRL+Q, search &ldquo All the fonts in it.

System installed fonts
Use ClearType to fine-tune the display of screen fonts.

ClearType
can preview the font display.

Font Display Preview
In order to save computer storage space, the system provides users with the ability to install font shortcuts instead of the font itself.

Save storage space to install font shortcuts
Personalization theme settings
Right click on the blank screen of the computer screen, click "Personalization", click on a topic below to change the desktop at the same time Background, color, sound and screensaver.

Change theme
Change window border and taskbar color.

Replacing the window border and taskbar color
The sound here is mainly to set the sound generated when the program event is changed.

Adjust the sound
Change the screen saver.

Change screen protection
Windows8 taskbar function analysis
Windows 8 taskbar function is also very powerful, let's experience it.
By right-clicking on the taskbar, you can select “Task Manager” to open in the pop-up menu.

Task Manager
The following figure is the task manager of Windows 8.

Win8 Task Manager Interface
Or right click on the taskbar, select “Properties", open the “Taskbar Properties” dialog box, click on the “ notification area: Customize &rdquo ;, set the notification area of ​​the application through a pop-up dialog box.

Taskbar Properties
Set the program icon and notification in the lower right corner. For example, email, QQ, computer virus monitoring, etc., you can choose whether to display the flashing notification information and program icon in the lower right corner. Prompt users to receive the latest information at any time.

Settings of notification area
Jump list, which can display the position of the document recently viewed by any program in the form of a list, such as the list of webpages recently browsed by the browser, and the number of items displayed in detail can be set. Users who are used to using jump lists can set it up.

Jump List Settings
For example, after right-clicking the taskbar browser program icon, it will display the last 10 webpage addresses (if the user sets the number of displays to 10).





Win8 desktop personalized settings experience here, Xiaobian introduced the Win8 desktop and taskbar settings from various aspects, I hope that the majority of users can start from this article, gradually understand, Then I slowly liked and skillfully used the Windows 8 operating system to experience great progress.

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