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| 5 Awesome Windows 11 Features you should use |
I want to show you five awesome features in windows 11.now
we all know that windows 11 has a lot of new functionality but these features
are at the top of my list.
Dictation with auto punctuation
Feature number-one and that’s windows dictation with auto
punctuation in the past on windows 10 you could dictate but it didn't include
punctuation ,here I have a notepad file open and to open up windows dictate I’ll
press the windows key together with the h key h is in hotel and this opens up
the dictate tool right down below here if I click on the settings gear here I
can see all of the different settings and there's now a new option for auto
punctuation I’ll make sure to turn that on now when I click into this text
field icon click on the microphone and it’ll start listening have you ever
tried a cookie from the Kevin cookie company they are the best cookies in the
world and check that out it adds all of the correct punctuation here put a
question mark in and here it inserted a period so the dictation tool has become
much more useful in windows 11.
Multiple desktops
this brings us to awesome feature number two you can now set
up multiple desktops and you can customize what those desktops look like on the
taskbar there's an icon to view all of your desktops and when I click on this I
can see that currently have one desktop when I click on the plus icon this will
add another desktop over here I can right click on it and now I can customize
it this is something that I could not do on windows 10.
I can click on rename and maybe I’ll call this one play and
just for the fun of it I’ll press the windows key together with the semicolon
key and I can insert an emoji here I’ll go with a robot since that's what my
voice sounds like here.
When I right click on it I can also choose a custom
background for this desktop let me go with this light background I could also
shift the position of my different desktops could right click and here I can
move it to the left or I can move it back to the righty could also simply click
on it and drag it to the position that I want to jump to my various desktops
all indeed to do is click on it.
Here and that'll bring me to the other desktop but what's
even faster I can simply use shortcut keys can press the control key together
with the windows key and my arrow keys and then I can navigate between all of
my desktops overall multiple desktops have gotten a lot better in windows 11
but it's still missing some key functionality you can't currently customize the
appestat appear on the taskbar across your different desktops and you can’t
currently take one of your desktops and put it on one monitor and another
desktop and place it on a different monitor.
Window snapping
This brings us to awesome feature number three and no it's
not my new website kevinstratford.com right over here although I would say that
is a pretty awesome website in windows 11 you're now able to take snapping to
the next level and I could always snap in windows 10.
Here I could simply take a window drag it over to the side
and I could snap it into that position but now along with being able to simply
drag it over to the edges here I can hover over the maximize icon and I get
these nice snapping hints.
So maybe I’ll place this in the top right hand corner and
right down here’ll place this in the bottom right hand corner so I have a
little bit more flexibility now if you really want to take snapping tithe next
level.
Microsoft offers a free tool called power toys and this is
available on both windows 10and also on windows 11 and you can do so much
beyond what you can do in windows 11.
Here for example I have power toys open and over on the left
hand side there’s something called fancy zones think of this as very advanced
snapping over here I can launch a layout editor and can choose exactly.
What I want my
different snap zones to look like and if I’m not satisfied with any of these
options I could also create my own layout so here let's go with arid and I’ll
click on create if you look at this I could select exactly what my snapping grid
looks likes once again you get ton of power around snapping along with snapping
you get all of these other awesome tools and once again it's completely free to
download and install if you're interested in power toys I’ve included a link in
the description down below.
Snap Groups
Another awesome feature number four and this one’s related
to snapping once I take the time to snap all of these different windows on my
screen don’t want to have to go through all of that again luckily there's now
something called snap groups.
Now if you remember I had three different browser windows
that I had snapped to miscreant can go down to my taskbar and they were chrome
windows here I could see each one of the individual windows and now also see
the entire group so here when I click on the group that’ll restore the entire
group back onto my screen.
Widgets
This feature brings us to the last awesome feature of today
and that's the inclusion of widgets in windows 11.
It's a little bit of a flashback to windows 7 right down on
the taskbar I can click on the widget icon and here I get a whole bunch of
helpful information here for example I could see all of my tasks hey it says
film a video well I’m doing that,
So let me check that item over here I can see the weather
the calendar traffic information photos I get all this information and icon
also customize what these look like when I click on the ellipsis I could set it
to small medium large and I could even customize it with the weather.
For example I could set my location here I’ll click on
cancel here I could also reorder all the different widgets so it appears how I
like it and if I go down right at the bottom icon also add additional widgets
and here you can seal of the different widgets that are available and my guess
is over time.
You'll see more widgets joint his list down below you'll
also see some of the top news headlines before we wrap up I want to leave you
with one bonus awesome feature and to be fair this isn't new to windows11 but
it’s really not that well known and it’s the secret start menu down on the taskbar
I have my typical start menu I click on it with my left mouse and that opens up
but instead of left clicking on it I can right click on it and that opens up
that secret start menu right up on tope have some settings and I can jump
directly to them and down below I could also open up the task manager and I
have a few other settings as wells it's just a handy.
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