System Settings

Quick reference

• 00:04 In Windows 11, we can easily change our system settings, and set things up so
• 00:08 they work in a way that's most productive for us.
• 00:12 And we briefly jumped into settings a little bit earlier on in the course,
• 00:16 but let's take a look at it in more detail.
• 00:18 Now the first thing I'm going to do here is I'm going to press the Windows logo key
• 00:22 on my keyboard just to pop open that start menu.
• 00:25 Now what you might find is that under your pinned applications.
• 00:28 And again yours might look a little bit different to mine,
• 00:31 you might have Settings in there.
• 00:32 If you can't see it in this pinned area, remember click on All Apps.
• 00:36 To show a big long list of all of your applications on your PC organized
• 00:41 alphabetically, we can then scroll down to S.
• 00:44 Or alternatively we could just type settings into the search bar at the top,
• 00:48 in order to find the one that we're looking for.
• 00:50 Now another thing that you could do if settings or any other application that
• 00:54 you're searching for, is something that you use all the time.
• 00:58 It can be a lot more beneficial to pin the application to your taskbar.
• 01:02 What that means is you're going to see it as an icon down in the taskbar like many
• 01:06 of these others that we already have.
• 01:08 And that makes it really quick and simple, to dive into the application.
• 01:12 Because it means you don't have to keep coming into the start Menu mach time.
• 01:15 So we're going to be using Settings quite a bit, so
• 01:18 I'm going to pin it to my taskbar.
• 01:20 So let's scroll through to the S section, and there I can see Settings.
• 01:24 Now if I right-click my mouse, I get a small contextual menu,
• 01:29 the first option here is to Unpin from Start.
• 01:32 So that's worth noting we can pin applications to the start menu, or
• 01:36 we can pin them to the taskbar.
• 01:38 And if we pin to the start menu the application is going to appear,
• 01:41 in that pinned list at the top.
• 01:43 Now I already have Settings in that list in my start menu,
• 01:47 which is why I'm only getting the option to Unpin it from Start.
• 01:51 If I was to go to something like the Snipping Tool and right click,
• 01:54 you can see the option I get is Pin to Start.
• 01:57 Now what about pinning to the taskbar?
• 01:59 Well if we right click again for this I need to go to More, and
• 02:03 then I have the option to Pin to the Taskbar.
• 02:06 So I'm going to do that to make it really simple.
• 02:08 So now, when I click away, you can see in the taskbar I now have settings there,
• 02:13 so when I want to access it, I can simply click it once.
• 02:17 So the Settings window is where we go to customize our copy of Windows 11.
• 02:22 And there are so many settings in here it can be a little bit overwhelming.
• 02:26 But I would highly recommend just taking some time before you really get going
• 02:30 using Windows 11.
• 02:32 To go through each of the categories and
• 02:34 make sure everything is set up in the way that you like to work.
• 02:38 Now we are going to be diving in and out of here throughout the course.
• 02:41 As we get to different sections I'm going to show you where you can come to
• 02:45 adjust certain settings.
• 02:46 But a quick run through of what we have so
• 02:48 you get a general idea as to where you can find things.
• 02:51 So if we go to System, this is where you're going to find all of the most
• 02:54 common things you might want to customize.
• 02:56 For example, we can make changes to our display,
• 02:59 we can make changes to our display.
• 03:01 So adjust things like the monitor that we're using and
• 03:05 the brightness, we can adjust our sound and even add other devices.
• 03:09 We can modify our notifications,
• 03:11 we can use something called Focus Assists which I'll talk about later.
• 03:15 And we also have things like our Power and Battery options in here as well.
• 03:19 We have a section for Bluetooth and Devices.
• 03:22 So if you have any Bluetooth devices connected,
• 03:24 this is where you would come to set those up, and also manage them.
• 03:28 Anything related to our Internet connection we're going to find under
• 03:32 Network & internet, so things like our WiFi.
• 03:34 And the Personalization area is really where we come for
• 03:37 all of that fun stuff changing things like our desktop wallpaper.
• 03:40 The theme we're using, the different colors that we're using.
• 03:44 And of course Apps is where we come to find a full list of all our apps.
• 03:49 And this is also where we can do things like uninstall certain apps on our PC.
• 03:53 Our Accounts is where we can go to manage our account information,
• 03:57 create new accounts, and add new users.
• 03:59 This is also where we find our sign in options.
• 04:02 So if you want to do things like, change the way you sign in from using a password
• 04:06 to a pin, this is where you would come to set that up.
• 04:09 You can also do things like change your password from in here as well,
• 04:13 Time & Language settings.
• 04:14 Again definitely make sure you're using the correct timezone, and
• 04:18 also the correct language for your region.
• 04:20 We have a Gaming section so I'm not much of a gamer so
• 04:23 I never really come into this section.
• 04:25 But if you are, this is where you can come to adjust those settings.
• 04:29 We have an accessibility area so this is where we can make
• 04:32 things a little bit more accessible to people who are maybe visually impaired.
• 04:37 For example we can do things like make the text size bigger.
• 04:41 We can turn on the magnifying glass which we can hover over different parts
• 04:44 of our screen to really make that text large.
• 04:47 We can change the color filters that we're using and change our contrast themes.
• 04:51 Next, we have Privacy & Security, pretty much what it says on the tin.
• 04:55 If you want to take a look at your security settings,
• 04:57 this is where you can come.
• 04:59 And then finally at the bottom, we have Windows Update.
• 05:02 So Windows is constantly being updated,
• 05:06 particularly newer versions like Windows 11.
• 05:09 So if we have any updates that have been automatically deployed to our PC,
• 05:13 this is where we can come to check for updates.
• 05:15 And also where we can download and install any new updates to the system.
• 05:20 So that's a very brief run through as I said we are going to be diving in and
• 05:24 out of here a lot.
• 05:25 Then the other thing to really know about these settings area if we click back
• 05:29 on System.
• 05:29 Is that when we start going through these different menus if I click on Sound,
• 05:33 just remember you get this little breadcrumb trail at the top.
• 05:36 So if you need to go back then you can I can go back to Systems simply by clicking
• 05:40 on it, and we also have a back arrow at the top here.
• 05:43 So if we're a bit too far through our menus, we can click on back,
• 05:46 to go back to where we were.
• 05:48 Also notice with some of these, what you'll find is that we can change some of
• 05:53 our settings using drop down menus.
• 05:55 And some are going to have these little slider toggles.
• 05:59 Now if we go back to something like Notifications,
• 06:02 you can see we have a lot of slider toggles in here.
• 06:06 This is simply to turn certain functionality off or on on our PC.
• 06:11 So you might have a drop down menu in here, you might have a slider toggle, but
• 06:15 that's pretty much it when it comes to settings.
• 06:17 Let's click on the cross in the top right hand corner to close that down because we
• 06:22 are ready to move on to the next lesson.

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