Technical information

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition

✓ Mouse: Point at the top- or bottom-right corner.

✓ Keyboard: Press +C.

✓ Touchscreen: Slide your finger inward from the

screen’s right edge.

When the Charms bar appears, lingering along your

screen’s right edge, it sports five icons, ready to be

either clicked or touched. Here’s what each icon does:

✓ Search: Choose this, and Windows assumes

you want to search through what you’re cur-

rently seeing onscreen. To expand your

search, choose one of the other search loca-

tions: Apps, Settings, or Files.

✓ Share: This fetches options for sharing what’s

currently on your screen. When viewing a web

page, for example, a click of the Share button

lets you choose Mail to e-mail the page’s link

to a friend. (I cover e-mail in Chapter 5.)

✓ Start: This simply takes you back to the

Start screen. The

key on your keyboard

or tablet also whisks you back there.

✓ Devices: Choose this to send your current

screen’s information to another device,

such as a printer, second monitor, or per-

haps a phone. (The Devices option lists only

devices that are currently connected with

your computer and able to receive the

screen’s information.)

✓ Settings: This lets you quickly tweak your

computer’s six major settings: Wi-Fi/

Network, Volume, Screen, Notifications,

Power, and Keyboard/Language. Not

enough? Then choose the words Change PC

Settings along the bottom to open the Start

screen’s mini-Control Panel.

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