Teach you to easily Fun Windows8.1 application skills 3

Author: Song Jie

shut down and restart Win8.1 application

Windows 8.1 has been released In 2 weeks, some of the more obvious changes are believed to have been realized, such as the start of button regression. It’s just that after all, the time is still short, and there are definitely a lot of fine-grained things that have not been discovered. So today, Xiaobian will share with you some tips and tips related to Win8.1 applications, hoping to bring you some practical. help.

Closing and restarting Win8.1 applications

In Window 8, close the Modern style application by dragging them to the bottom of the screen <; discard & rdquo; (as shown below) But after updating to Windows 8.1, the same thing just hangs them back to the background, not shutting down.

In Win8, the application is closed, Win8.1 just hangs

To completely close the application in Windows 8.1, you need to drag and drop the application to the bottom of the screen. Hover for a while, wait until the application's main interface thumbnail is rotated and converted to the application tile icon and then release (as shown below), this will be closed.

This is the complete shutdown of the application

The above operation to completely shut down the Windows 8.1 application should be known to many users, but you may not know, when the application Once the thumbnail is rotated into an icon and then dragged up again, the app can be restarted.

Do not release but drag up again to restart the application

If you need to restart when running Win8.1 application, you can use the above operation to achieve Without having to close first and then boot from the start screen.

Turn off app auto-updates

Avoid app auto-updates

Windows 8.1 adds the ability to apply auto-updates, but sometimes you don't want it to be an app update. If you want to turn off automatic updates and return to the Windows 8 manual update mode, you can change the following settings.

Start the Windows Store first, then call the Charm bar, click Settings ——Apply Update;

Change Automatic Updates from here

Then Change the “Automatically update my app" option on the app update page to “No”

Turn off app auto-updates

After the change, when there is a new version of the app available, the number of apps that can be updated will still be displayed in the bottom right corner of the app’s tile. prompt.

Back to Windows 8 Update Tips

Quickly Find Newly Installed Applications

Quickly Find Newly Installed Applications

Windows Another minor change in 8.1 is that newly installed apps don't automatically generate tiles on the start screen, which requires us to add them manually. When you have more and more applications, how can you quickly find new applications? Just follow the steps below.

When you find an application of interest and the installation is complete, first click on the small arrow icon at the bottom left of the start screen (or the touch screen slides up) to switch to the application list view;

Click here to switch to the application view

and then change the classification method to “by installation date"; this will install the newly installed app first, and on the right side of the newly installed app icon An additional "add" typeface will be displayed to help the user confirm that this is the new app just installed.

Changing the sorting method to find new applications

Locate the newly installed app and fix it to the start screen, right mouse button (or press and hold the app on the touch screen) Open the command bar below and click “pin to the start screen”.

Finally, return to the start screen and move the new tile to the location you want.

Pin the newly installed app tile to the start screen

Ok, here are the three tips related to Windows 8.1 apps, I hope I can do it for everyone. Use is helpful.