Quick Settings

Quick reference

• 00:03 We've mentioned a few times already in this course, the Quick Settings panel,
• 00:09 but let's take a look at this in a little bit more detail.
• 00:12 Now, your Quick Settings panel is where we can go to very
• 00:16 quickly adjust some of our more common settings.
• 00:20 So things like the brightness on our PC, the volume,
• 00:23 we can toggle our Wi-Fi off and on from here.
• 00:26 And the point of the Quick Settings panel is really just for quickness.
• 00:30 It means you don't have to jump into the full settings menu and
• 00:34 start hunting around for these different common settings.
• 00:38 So let's take a look at the Quick Settings panel.
• 00:40 Again I'm going to show you some things you can do with it and
• 00:43 how you can customize it.
• 00:44 Now we get to our Quick Settings panel in the bottom right-hand corner,
• 00:48 where we have these three icons, Volume and Power.
• 00:51 If we click this, it's going to open up our Quick Settings.
• 00:54 And you can see some of the settings that I have set up in here.
• 00:58 So the first one up here allows me to quickly toggle off and
• 01:02 on my Internet connection.
• 01:04 So if I click the arrow just here, I can see my Internet connection.
• 01:08 And I can jump into More WiFi settings, which is going to jump me
• 01:12 directly to exactly the correct spot within that larger Settings menu.
• 01:16 So if I need to get a little bit more granular,
• 01:19 maybe start adding new connections, here's a quick way of getting to here.
• 01:24 Most of the time I just use this if I need to quickly turn off or on my Internet.
• 01:29 All of these buttons are what we call toggle buttons.
• 01:31 So when you click them once it's going to toggle them off, or
• 01:34 click again to toggle back on.
• 01:36 You can see here this is showing my headphones.
• 01:40 So this is your Bluetooth toggle.
• 01:41 It allows me to quickly toggle off and
• 01:44 toggle on any Bluetooth devices I have connected.
• 01:48 Now currently my headphones are toggled on.
• 01:50 So I'm just going to click this button to disconnect those headphones.
• 01:54 And I just briefly heard a little message,
• 01:56 an audio message in my headphones just letting me know that those are now off.
• 02:00 I can toggle off and on, Flight mode.
• 02:03 My battery saver button isn't currently active because I have my PC plugged into
• 02:07 the power.
• 02:08 We have a focus assist button just here.
• 02:11 Now, if you're not sure what focus assist is, and you probably won't be if you're
• 02:15 new to Windows 11, we have a whole lesson dedicated to this a little bit later on.
• 02:20 So I'm going to skip over that button for now.
• 02:23 And then finally we have a quick way of getting to our Accessibility options.
• 02:27 So we can do things like turn on the Magnifier.
• 02:30 So if I click this, notice what happens, I get this little magnifier and
• 02:36 I can move around my screen and everything is a lot larger.
• 02:40 So this is for people who, maybe, have accessibility issues and
• 02:44 need to see certain parts of the screen like that underneath a magnifying glass.
• 02:49 And we have a few different accessibility options which
• 02:53 we can toggle off or on from here.
• 02:56 Also notice, we can adjust the brightness and also the volume on our PC, as well.
• 03:01 Now notice at the bottom we have a little Edit quick settings icon.
• 03:05 So if we click on this pencil, it's going to allow us to make some changes.
• 03:11 So if I decide that there's certain ones in here that I don't want showing in my
• 03:15 Quick Settings panel,
• 03:16 I can get rid of them simply by clicking on that drawing pin icon.
• 03:21 So Battery Saver isn't really doing much for me right now.
• 03:23 I'm going to click on this to remove it from Quick Settings.
• 03:26 I'm also going to remove Flight mode from here, as well.
• 03:30 If I want to add something, I can click on the Add button at the bottom and
• 03:34 it's going to give me a list of all of the possible items that
• 03:38 I can add to my Quick Settings.
• 03:40 So maybe I want to add the Night light, I can select it and
• 03:43 it now becomes a little toggle.
• 03:45 I can also rearrange the order of these settings, as well.
• 03:49 So I could click on Bluetooth, I can drag it, and
• 03:52 I can drop it into its new location.
• 03:54 Once I'm happy with the layout, and what I have added, I can simply click on
• 03:59 the Done button and I have effectively customized my Quick Settings panel.
• 04:03 What you'll also notice in the bottom right-hand corner is that we have a way of
• 04:08 getting to all of our settings.
• 04:10 So if we click on the cog,
• 04:11 it's just going to open up that main settings window.
• 04:15 You'll also notice that for each of these,
• 04:17 if I right click on Bluetooth I have options to edit my quick settings, again.
• 04:22 Or alternatively, I can go to Settings.
• 04:24 And because this is the Bluetooth one that I right-clicked on,
• 04:27 it's going to jump me to exactly the correct place within settings.
• 04:31 Which makes things a lot easier, but that is it.
• 04:34 That is your Quick Settings panel, set it up so that it works best for you.

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