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What I'm going to do in this tutorial is go through some of the basic settings to personalise Windows

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Now I'm not going to go into too much detail here because there are a lot of settings, but rather I'm

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going to visit the basic settings because the tutorial would end up being half an hour long.

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So starting with the first thing now, typically when I am on windows, I don't usually have the taskbar

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exposed like I do here now.

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I've just kept it exposed for the sake of the course.

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So typically what I like it to do is just to drop down out of sight when I'm doing other things on my

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computer and this is just a personal preference of mine.

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So we'll take a look at that setting and a few other settings as well.

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With regards to the taskbar, so let's see these settings.

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You can just come down to the taskbar itself.

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Right click come to taskbar settings.

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We just come straight down to the bottom to taskbar behaviors.

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And here we have automatically hide the taskbar.

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So with this selected, you can see the taskbar disappears.

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And like I said, this is just a personal preference of mine.

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So you might want to use this yourself.

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But basically, this is how you can turn it on and off.

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Then we have the taskbar corner overflow, and that is going to be this area down here at the bottom

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right now, if I open up these settings, we have these kind of widgets that you can turn on and off.

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So let's just take a look at in video container.

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I'll turn that on and you can see the icon shows up and then we have TeamViewer.

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You can see that icon shows up as well.

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So you can just tailor this to your preference.

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Then we have this error here.

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The pen, menu, touch, keyboard and virtual touchpad.

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Now, let's be honest with you, this is a desktop computer, and I think virtual touchpad has something

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to do with laptops, quite possibly.

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But in any case, I don't actually know.

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But one thing I do know is the touch keyboard, and I have this turned on at the moment.

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So with it turned on, it shows up down here.

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And if you click on this, you're presented with this keyboard here, but basically you can turn it

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on from here.

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Now, just clicking on personalization up here.

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Well, actually, before I move on, we have these settings here.

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The task view So if I turn this off, you can see that option disappears from the taskbar and then we

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have widgets and then we have chat as well.

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So I'm just going to click on personalization and we end up with these settings here.

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Now if you're wondering how to get here, you can on the desk top, just right click and come down to

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personalize.

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So firstly, we have the background, and I think this is pretty obvious.

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This just deals with the background picture on your desk top.

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And we have three options here.

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We have picture, solid color and slideshow, so solid color allows you to choose obviously a solid

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color.

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And then we have picture, which is what it's said to now and then.

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This slideshow now if you click on Slideshow, what would happen is the pictures would obviously change

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every now and again, and you can specify how often you want those changes to take place.

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So you can do that with these settings here and the change picture every.

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Option or setting, I should say.

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So we have one minute, 10 minutes and so on, so you can choose that.

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So with regard to this being a slideshow, they don't actually slide in and out, but rather they just

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fade in and out.

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But I'm going to leave this on picture.

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Now, just click on personalization once again to go back, and I'm not going to go to colors because

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while I, I'm not going to too much detail with all of these settings because it would just be it would

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take too long, but rather I'm just going to jump straight into themes.

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And this is quite an interesting one.

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You can just choose from these various themes that are available.

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So let's go for glow.

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You can see how it changes.

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Then we have this one here.

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Which is what I kind of like, so what I'll do is I'll just leave it on this thing, you just choose

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from whatever option you want.

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Now we have under related settings, contrasted contrast themes.

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So click on this and what you can do is here.

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You can just choose from these four options from this dropdown here.

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So let's just go for dessert.

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And then click apply.

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And then it just takes a few seconds for it to take effect.

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And then you end up with a look that looks like this.

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Now I do like this look, but I don't like it as much as the original look.

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But maybe you would like to go through some of these options, and who knows, you might find one that

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you really like.

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But to put it back to its default setting, you can come back to this dropdown and then click on that

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and then click on Apply.

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There is going to click on Personalization once again, and I'm going to come down to.

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Well, there's only two more we're going to take a look at.

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We're going to take a look at lockscreen first.

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So here we have the Window Spotlight option selected.

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So when you turn on your computer, you may have noticed that you have this picture in the background

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that every now and again changes.

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And this is whatever Microsoft specifies.

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So I'm quite happy just leaving it on this.

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But if you wants to, you can choose a picture or slideshow.

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Then we have the screen timeout option.

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And now if you're on a laptop, you might want to take a look at this and just find out how long it

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takes for your screen to turn off to turn off when plugged in.

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And then you have some sleep options here as well.

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Seniors come to these drop downs and specify what you want.

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OK, so that's what I want to take a look at there, circling back to personalization, actually before

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I go any further and I just wonder where it is.

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There was actually a screensaver that you can turn on.

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I think it's on the themes.

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Let's just take a look.

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No, it's not here.

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Actually, it would be under lock screen, so let's just take a look here.

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Oh, yeah, OK, no problem.

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I kind of just didn't notice it.

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So under lock screen, you have screensaver now.

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If you live through the 80s and the early 2000s, there was a time when screensavers were all the rage.

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Now I can't remember if they were available in Windows 10, but they are available in Windows 11, saying

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come to the setting here and click on it.

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You'll be presented with this.

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Window here.

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And don't worry about the aspect ratio here, you can see it's it's square, which is the old aspect

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ratio for windows.

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But in any case, you can come to the dropdown here and you can choose the type of screensaver you want.

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So at the moment, minus sets to ribbons, but you can choose whatever one you want.

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And there's also a 3D text.

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Now, if you choose 3D text, you can come to settings.

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You can choose what you want the text to say.

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Then you can have the resolution, the size, the rotation speed and also the type of animation as well.

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And then just click, OK, once you're done and if you want, you can just click on.

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Previous Take a look.

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Now, with regard to my screen recorder, I'm not sure if this is actually going to record this.

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So while let's just take a look and see if it works.

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So at the moment, I don't know if that actually works, because I need to take a look back at the video,

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but hopefully it did work.

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But if it didn't?

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Don't worry.

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The preview is in here in this monitor.

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And then you just have this option here to choose how long you want the computer to wait for before

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its turns on the screen saver.

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So once you're done here, you can just click Apply.

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Then get rid of this here, and you're all done now well onto the last two things.

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If you are quite a heavy computer user like I am, then you might want to turn on the nightlight before

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you go to bed or some hours before you go to bed.

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Because, as you know, when it comes to blue light, which is what the screen emits, it can mess around

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with your sleeping pattern.

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So you might want to take advantage of the night light before you actually go to bed.

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So come up to the search bar up here at the top left Typekit Night Lights, or just type in night and

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select night lights.

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Now mine is actually turned on at the moment, and I think I need to reset my computer because for some

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reason, every time I turn it up and then back down, it doesn't seem to be working for some reason.

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Yes, so I think I need to restart my computer or maybe update my windows.

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But basically, you have the strength here you can choose from and obviously can choose to turn it on

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and off.

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But then you also have this dropdown here where you can schedule the night lights and you can turn on

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the night light at this time here and have a turn off at this time here.

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And then finally, we have this here.

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So if you hold down the Windows key and press on your keyboard, you end up with a side panel here.

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And basically, this just gives you access to basic information.

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Obviously, the weather.

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And here we have some stock market reports and so on.

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But if you want to add some other widgets, you can just click on, add widgets and we have some more

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options here you can choose from.

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Then just press escape to get rid of that.

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So you notice this picture in the background, it does look quite nice.

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Now you might recall at the beginning I showed you that you can choose a kind of slideshow that would

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change the picture according to whatever interval you specified.

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But with regard to these picture backgrounds, these default picture backgrounds, I've noticed that

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they change automatically anyway.

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I'm not sure what the intervals are, but I've just noticed every time I call on my browser, then come

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back to the desktop.

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I found that maybe the Sun is in a different position in the sky, or maybe the trees aren't here anymore,

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or the whole picture is just changed.

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So I think that is pretty cool.

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So the last thing I want to show you now is with the icons on your desktop top.

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So as you could see, if I try to drag this over to the right here, it doesn't allow me to do that,

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but rather it just goes back into place here.

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And this is just something I prefer to keep it all nice and neat.

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Now to adjust this, you can just right click Go to view, and then you can uncheck auto arrange icons.

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Which means you can just move them around freely and they'll stay where they are.

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Then you have a line icons to grid.

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And I suppose I can see how this works.

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You can't actually sort of put it in between.

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It has to be within a column or within a row.

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So the roads are this way or the columns are the vertical lines.

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OK, so that's all I wanted to show you with regard to personalization.

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We'll move on now to the next tutorial.