 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event, webinar, webcast, whatever you want to call us. We're online and we're here every week, almost every week. We weren't here last week, but there's a reason for that. Or we cover anything related to libraries. The show is free and open to anyone to watch. Both our live sessions that we do here live on Wednesday mornings at 10 a.m. Central Time and the recordings are all posted to our website afterwards. You can go and watch all of those as well. We upload them all to YouTube, so it's very easy for anyone to go there and see any of the previous shows. We also include any PowerPoint presentations or notes or handouts or anything that links that we related to a show. Are included in our archive pages as well, so you have all of those resources as well. I said we do a mixture of things here, presentations, interviews, many training sessions, book reviews. Basically, as I said, anything library related, we are happy to have it on the show. We do bring in guest speakers sometimes, and sometimes we have Nebraska Library Commission staff do presentations. That's what we have this morning. This week is our monthly tech talk with Michael Sowers. Michael's the Technology Innovation Librarian here at the Nebraska Library Commission. You can see him there in the corner. Hi, Michael. I'm in my office, and he has done the whole in his office because of the technical requirements we'll call it for doing today's show. The necessity for him to be on a particular computer on a particular connection to make sure this one goes smoothly. What we have today is Michael's tech talk. Usually it is the last Wednesday of the month. I don't know why I think it's Friday. I wish it was Friday, maybe. Subconsciously, I wish it was Friday. It's usually the last Wednesday of the month, but this month we bumped it up a little bit due to other scheduling issues. He is with us today. He usually talks about anything techy. Sometimes he brings on speakers, guest speakers as well for his own session, but this week we've just got him, which is cool. He's going to tell us everything you want to know about Windows 10. Is that a little too much? I'm going to do my best. That's cool. I'll just hand over to you, Michael. Take it away. Tell us what you know. Thank you, Krista, and good morning to everybody on the live show and anybody who's watching the recording later. This month in tech talk here, we're going to talk about the Windows 10 technical preview. We are so at the front end of the curve here that this came out about a week and a half ago. That tells you how much I've been playing with it, along with the fact that it would take a couple of days out for a state conference. I got to admit I'm pretty darn impressed with it, and I think you will be too. I do want to start out this session with a question. We're going to do a show of hands, which Krista is going to give me a rough head count of what it is. Here is the question. I would like to know in the audience, if you were presented with Windows 8, would you feel comfortable using it? Would you like it? I don't want to get into the whether or not Windows 8 is great or socks. How familiar are people with it? If you could raise your hand if you're in the audience, and if you feel like somebody sat you down on a Windows 8 machine, you would be able to use it and we're comfortable with it. I just want to want to gauge the level of Windows 8 familiarity with my audience here today. On your GoToWebinar interface, there's a little raise your hand icon there. It should be in the upper left section of it. You can just click there. Some of you in the audience should be raising your hand. Right now we've got somebody had their hand up and put it down. There was five hands raised out of the 13 that we have logged in at the moment. Great. I want to establish some context for this. The first thing I want to talk about is it's Windows 10. It's not Windows 9. Why? Well, there have been a couple reasons given. Microsoft's official reason that they gave in the presentation is that they want to show that it's the next level and there's one platform for all their devices and unfortunately Windows 1 was already taken and so they decided to go with Windows 10. That's kind of the official reason. An unofficial sarcastic reason is that they want to distance themselves as much from Windows 8 as possible. Maybe that's true, maybe that's not. An unofficial technical reason is some coders have looked at some legacy code in a lot of programs that will do a test for Windows 9 question mark for testing for Windows 95 and Windows 98 and if you were to call the next version of Windows 9 that would affect a whole lot of old legacy programs. That's the one that I believe most. That seems the most. The other ones are kind of just making up some sort of marketing speak but that one, a technical issue that could really screw up somebody's programming, I would believe that the most. Yeah, I tend to believe it too. Whether or not Microsoft will ever actually cop to it, I don't know but it does make sense and there's very little to argue about that one. So we are going from Windows 8 to Windows 10 and we're kind of skipping Windows 9. And the other thing I want to stress, especially for this presentation is this is the technical preview. So it is not feature complete but amazingly enough it is very, very stable compared to a lot of preview versions of Windows that have come out before. I remember very early previews of Windows 8 and you definitely did not want to run that on anything you used on a daily basis. I still would not recommend you run this on your main machine or anything that is mission critical but I've got it running in various formats that we'll talk about towards the end on various platforms and I have not actually run into any actual problems. I could use this on a daily basis but because it is a technical preview I wouldn't want to use it on my main machine. It is available, I will explain you how you can get it at the end of this session and how you can install it even if you don't have spare hardware. And I will remind you at this point that if you do install the technical preview it is my understanding that it will expire in April of 2015. So this is not a permanent solution but you will get updates and it will continue to work until April. Right now the release schedule for the official version of Windows 10 is considered summer of next year. So summer of 2015 so we've got a good six to eight month kind of window here to start playing around with it and testing it. And as for cost that is completely unofficial. Any information Microsoft has not officially released it yet. Some of the common wisdom is that if you are running with version 8 or 8.1 right now it will be a free upgrade but Microsoft has not officially said that and if you are running XP, Vista or 7 it will be a paid for upgrade just like Windows 8 is right now. So but like I said I want to stress very, very not official there no official word from Microsoft on that. We're at our desktop here and I'm going to walk you through this in just a moment here but one of the other things I wanted to point out to you is that the minimum specifications for running this on some hardware are extremely low. The minimum specs for Windows 8 were actually lower than Windows 7 and the specs for Windows 10 are actually lower than Windows 8. Now I'm not going to run through all sorts of picky little details about what those are. What I am going to show you here real quick is what this PC that I'm running it on right now this is just a Core 2 Duo at 2.66 gigahertz with only 2 gigs of RAM and this thing is running smooth. So I mean I've run it on lower specs, I've run it on higher specs but this thing runs quite well. The other thing I want to point out is hard drive usage on this is extremely small. This is a 500 gigabyte hard drive. I have basically installed Windows. It was a clean installation and I have installed very few other additional programs. This thing is almost as stripped down as I needed it to be for this presentation and right now I'm still only using 18 gig of storage space on my hard drive. So if you've got some older hardware with a 50 gig hard drive in it you can run this sucker and you can test it and you can see how it's going to work in the future. So I just want to encourage everybody to play with this and like I said at the end I will show you how to actually do that. Alright so we have booted the computer. We have logged into the computer. Now like Windows 8 you can create what's called a local login or a Microsoft login. I have created a Microsoft login because I am running Windows 8 on several other machines in my environment and so I logged in as me with my Microsoft account and it started pulling over my settings and saying hey I noticed you have these apps installed which you like to install them so you can completely integrate this into your current existing Microsoft account if you have one. Now one of the biggest complaints about Windows 8 was that whole start screen thing and that was kind of dealt with a little bit in Windows 8.1 where when you booted you either got the start screen, all the big tiles or you got the desktop. Microsoft has heard those complaints and they are now adjusting Windows 10 accordingly and adding a lot of new features which are what I'm going to walk you through. The first one here is that when you boot the computer it's going to notice if you are in a touch environment or a keyboard mouse environment. I am running this on a desktop PC so I have got a keyboard and a mouse I do not have a touch screen monitor in front of me so I am booted into my desktop. If I was running this on a tablet or a touch screen laptop then I would be booted to the start screen with all the tiles that you see in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 right now. So there is kind of the first adjustment very similar to Windows 8.1 in this particular case. You can switch back and forth, I will show you how to do that but I'm just going to mention here again that I am currently running this demo in a keyboard mouse non-touch environment so those are going to be my defaults. I have the desktop here on the screen that you are looking at I have got my little video window up here it's not quite running down to the bottom because I do want to keep this Windows technical preview logo on the screen here just for anybody watching the recording later or jumps in in the middle. We have the familiar task bar across the bottom of the screen and we have some buttons that you should be familiar with and some that you aren't. Starting at the bottom right here we have our time and date we have the sound options we have the internet access options messaging center and I have this little click here where I can bring up the other icons that have been minimized into my system tray. Over on towards the left here we have icons for programs that have been pinned to the task bar even back to Windows XP you should be familiar with this and you can tell the ones that are kind of highlighted slash glowing here these are programs that are currently running. As I hover over them I will get previews as to what those screens look like if I open them up. So so far pretty much all features that you should be familiar with but what we have over here in the left now of that are two new icons and our familiar start button. Start button did come back in Windows 8.1 but it still initiated the start screen with all the tiles. Well in Windows 10 they've heard the queuing cry that there was no start menu and they have given you the start menu back but it is not your mother's start menu. So I'm going to go ahead and click on this and here we go we have the start menu. Now what you're going to notice here is that it is kind of an amalgamation of the start menu you were familiar with in Vista and 7 plus the tile interface that you were familiar with from Windows 8. So you can totally get rid of those tiles if you want to you can customize those tiles I'm going to kind of walk you through all of this but this is our new start menu. So I'm just going to kind of work through it here a little bit. We do have my account information that I'm currently logged in as if I was to click on that and I want to make sure I don't do this at the moment because we did some testing earlier that will give me information about my account properties give me the ability to log out of the system and log into a different account if I wanted to. Over here to the right is our new power options button and if I click that I have my various choices such as sleep, shutdown and restart. Earlier today when I booted up some updates were downloaded so when I clicked on the power button there I saw an update and restart and an update and shutdown option at the moment no updates available to me so those options are not there. Below that we kind of have our shortcuts here by default we have documents, pictures, PC settings and our file explorer and you'll notice our file explorer does have a little arrow there so when I hover over it it gets me my frequently used options or folders that I have browsed recently available to me instead of my tiles. Below that we have recently used excuse me we have recently used programs so this is a dynamic area here that will change this is something you should also be used to and in the case of something like Notepad where you might have opened different files excuse me oh I didn't save my previous file that's why similar to with File Explorer giving you recently used things if I had recently used some files in Notepad those recently used files I'm sorry I just hit my keyboard it would show up on the right. We then have our all apps down here so if I want to get a complete alphabetical list of all of the programs that are installed on my machine and the different folders I have accessed I have available that all apps also similar to Windows 7 and I can click back and go back there. Now that's the left column I'll get to the right column in a moment but one thing I do want to show you that they've added a neat little feature here notice if I go up to the top of my start menu I have the ability to actually drag and drop at least I'm supposed to yep there we go and make it a little taller I can make it shorter and then you'll notice my tiles will adjust accordingly so if you like a nice short squat and wide menu you can do that or you can drag it up to that. Basically this is going to influence how many tiles you can see although as you add tiles it will automatically expand more importantly it's going to control how much you see in the left hand column of that start menu down in the bottom of the start menu in the left hand column you have a search functionality many of you familiar with windows 7 know that you can start typing after you click the start menu here we also have that but it is clearly labeled with a search everywhere so there are a couple of different things here that can happen one is let's say I'm looking for a particular program that I know I've installed for example I know I've installed chrome on this machine but I don't see it here in my tiles or on my start menu I could go to all apps and find that or I can just start typing and get this now what's going to happen though is it's going to offer you a lot more resources now obviously the first choice up there at the top is labeled Google chrome it noticed that I have installed a program called chrome and if I'm searching for chrome chances are I want to run it so at this point I could just go ahead and click on that to run chrome or I could press enter but it's also giving me some other choices such as here is the vnc viewer for Google chrome and the sunrise calendar and an installation program these are now other programs that is found with that keyword in it on my pc but then going a little further down notice we have here tube for chromecast and tube for chromecast pro and underneath those it says install app so what is also searching against is the store or other apps related to that program and if I was to click on this tube for chromecast it would launch the app store and it would allow me to install that program what is also searching is urls that I have recently gone to and in this case I have here in the chrome browser I went to a website google.com slash chrome so not only is it finding the programs for me or the program I want it's finding other files documents things like that on my machine and this is doing it almost instantaneously then we also have down here after the line these are actual web searches that I may want to do so if I was looking to download chrome I could just start type chrome and there's my chrome download and that would perform an internet search for me in Bing and I'm going to show you another way you can do this too so we've got it's the start menu search is searching your local machine for programs and content and urls and it is also allowing you quick access to Bing searches I do not know if you're going to be able to change your search provider let's say I would rather use Google than Bing at the moment there's no way to change that maybe in a future release they'll do that and I'm not going to speculate as to whether or not they will actually give us that feature I can go ahead and press escape and that will take me back to my start menu but we do have a question Michael over on the right hand we have a question okay I think they want to know if the install app will still come up if you need an administrator password to install any new software yeah there is still the user authentication control that should be familiar with from any other currently current version of Windows so if you try to install a program that needs privileges it will either ask you to approve it assuming you are an administrator or ask you for an administrator login it will still sound very similar that hasn't changed at all okay cool alright go ahead anybody have any questions type them into your question section of your go to web interface or just say unmute me please and I can unmute you and you can ask your question using your own microphone and Kristen will happily interrupt me like I just did alright yeah I'll just keep talking so just jump on in if we got a question start menu we have also our tiles built in here and most of these at the moment are the default tiles that came with Windows I've added one down here at the bottom because I did install the overdrive app so I want to talk a little bit about how tiles work here on the start menu but first I just want to talk a little bit about tiles because we had a number of people not familiar with Windows 8 tiles in Windows 8 are a full screen sort of event the new start screen that was there and I'll get to that and show you that before we're done the tiles here now allow you to kind of create nice big targets for accessing programs on your machine tiles I will admit are a little more designed for a touch environment because this menu here on a kind of a smaller tablet is really it can be hard if you get nice big sausage fingers like I do to hit small targets whereas these are nice big targets and you'll notice there are different sizes that you can manipulate them with so there's that the other benefits of tiles is you have this concept of live tiles and as you may have noticed already some of these are changing and some of them are kind of staying the way they are not all tiles can be live but when there is a live tile what will happen is information will be presented in that tile and update itself as needed so for example you'll notice here the update the overdrive tile for that program is showing that I'm currently reading a book called title new Cthulhu by Charlie Strauss and that I am currently zero percent in it and that I have one book in downloaded my account here this is for the news app that comes with windows and it is showing the latest headlines and in this case just one because it's really not important but as it does it will scroll through and update those headlines the store as you'll see has been kind of moving around a bit and it's in this case marketing to you and highlighting a program it thinks you should install the people app is something that you can use to integrate with twitter and facebook and various other social media and then as twitter updates come in they can show here I personally like live tiles I like being able to kind of bring this up and get a glance at what's going on with the software that I've connected to my machine in my other outside accounts I've talked to another co-worker where she finds that this information moving around on the screen is really annoying and if she wants to know what the news is she'll run the news program fair enough some people like them some people don't if you don't like the fact that it's a live tile you can right click on it and notice here it says turn live tile off and then that's just going to go back to the static news tile if I want to turn it back on I can right click from it right click on it again and turn my live tile back on and it will start pulling that information so you can customize this some of the other choices that you'll see as you right click on tiles you can unpit it from the start so if I don't want the weather there at all I can just do that and it goes poof and it's away if I want to get something back onto it what I can do here is do a quick search and there's my weather app or I can install the weather channel we'll just stick with the basic weather app if I right click on that there's pin to start and if I go back to my start menu there it is pinned at the end and I can drag and drop these and put them wherever I want I'm going to add one more real quick here I'm going to go ahead and actually I'm going to pin PC settings because I really like to get into my settings there so I'm going to pin that to start and you'll notice what has happened here if I get back out it's added a PC tile PC settings tile and that start menu has expanded out to the right accordingly now a few other things you can do here I can right click on this and I can pin something to the taskbar pinning to the taskbar we'll put it down here at the bottom in my taskbar and I can pin that from any source so if I want to pin the windows power shell I could right click and pin the taskbar there I can change the size of it I can make it small I can make it medium I can make it wide or if I really really like it I can make it large which makes it this big giant square here and notice everything adjusts around accordingly so you can really customize the content of this you can rearrange it you can say I want the weather over here you can turn live tiles on and off you can add tiles you can remove tiles you can really make this a customized experience I gotta admit personally I like the big giant full screen event but I think this is a nice compromise this gives people that familiar start menu that they really wanted and really missed from windows 8 and but then also gives you the ability to get those tiles in there if you want them and to customize them to fit your needs if you really want that full screen environment back again you can right click on the taskbar and select properties and then over here under start menu here is where it has defaulted to use the start menu and start the start screen if I was to uncheck that I would then get instead of a start menu when I clicked on the button I would get that full screen windows start screen environments again so you can do that you can also have it choose to remember recently used programs and recently used apps here if you want I'm not going to go ahead and actually change that because I'm not sure what it would do to our broadcast here but you do have that ability to get that full screen back additionally going the other direction if you're on a tablet like I said it's going to fall to that full screen but if you want the menu you would just come in here again and you would check this use the start menu instead of the start screen and then in a touch tablet environment you can have exactly what I'm showing you here instead of that full screen if you want it so I just want to pause here for another minute if there are any questions about what's going on with the start menu because really this is kind of one of the biggest new features in windows 10 nobody has typed in anything yet anyway have any questions you can use the questions section type in your question if you want to be unmuted just say unmute me and we can do that okay well I'll keep an eye on things okay I'm going to go ahead and move on and you know like I said we do just have a comment nope it all seems very straightforward you know yes it is interesting because the jump from 7 to 8 a lot of people had difficulty with that big changes yes it was massive but 10 is kind of this compromise if windows if windows 8 was two steps forward windows 10 is almost one step back but it's still out of 7 so people from 7 to 8 was a big leap but from 8 to 10 or even 7 to 10 it's not that big of a leap it's a smaller step and people seem to be getting used to it pretty darn quickly okay so I'm going to go ahead I'm going to unpin the weather app for my taskbar another comment seems like the switch from DOS to the GUI DOS to go yeah a little bit in fact I do for those of you who still like the DOS window I have something to tell you later on I remember the DOS window yeah improving the command line can you believe that? we'll get back to that one that one definitely is in my left here's the next big thing the next kind of big change that's going on in here most if you've been using any version of windows since windows 95 you know that when you run a desktop program and I'll go ahead and I'll bring up internet explorer here you get it in a window you have the minimize, the maximize the close I'm going to close that up there you can full screen it you can do this you can make it smaller by dragging the edges and everybody's used to that and everybody I'll just say likes it because if nothing else that's how windows works well the problem was with what are called the windows apps this internet explorer here desktop program windows 8 introduce the concept of apps and apps are actually very familiar to people except when they got them on a windows machine and apps are very familiar to anybody who's used an iPad or an android phone or anything that isn't a desktop where you would install an app think of your cell phone or your iPad if you install an app the app runs full screen and when you're done with it you go home and you run another app you don't run them in a windows environment well that's how apps worked in windows 8 when you ran an app in windows 8 it ran full screen it took over everything and that just freaked people out I admit there's a learning curve there but it freaked people out with windows 8.1 they went to it's still full screen but you at least got the task bar down at the bottom but one thing you couldn't do was you couldn't really resize that window it wasn't in a window it was full screen they've fixed that and I'll put, if you can see my video I'm using error quotes here, they fixed that in windows 10 so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to run the weather app this is a full screen app but you will notice up at the top here we have our close, our resize our minimize and I can now run a windows app in an actual window now this app oh there we go, this app doesn't seem to be doing much at the moment but it's trying to figure out where I am so it can show me the weather so we have now the ability to take windows apps that you get from the app store and actually run them in windows and resize them and can it use my location? I'll say sure why not we can close them I obviously did not run this before this demonstration here so it's asking me a bunch of different information there we go and so I can run it full screen I can run it in a window I can scroll back and forth if I was in a touch screen environment I could just swipe across the screen and move it around I can bring it up to full screen again basically all they have done is they have brought back the title bar windows 8 there was no title bar windows 8.1 the title bar was there if you knew to move your mouse up to the top of the screen windows 10 the title bar is back and everybody's happy about that me, I'm like okay it's back but that's there so you can run your apps I'm going to run another one here real quick I'll run PC settings just so you can kind of take a look at that apps now show up in the task bar down at the bottom of the screen I can get my hover here I can switch between them I can move them into a window I can resize I've got all sorts of options available to me here somebody just asked a question about that actually I read they fixed the ability to snap the windows they don't necessarily have to take up half the screen you can customize how they fill the screen that's what you just did you just redid well actually it's a little different and bonus points to whoever asked that because that's what I'm going to cover next there you go so we've got now desktop programs and windows apps now run in the same sort of environment it used to be kind of two different environments now it's one environment they're all running in windows so consistency always a good thing snapping is a little different now I'm going to admit right now that I'm still getting the hang of this so if it doesn't work as smoothly as you think it should I will completely take the blame for that okay I'm still getting the hang of this so let's say that I've got my PC settings and I've got Internet Explorer running and let's say Internet Explorer I've got a page up that says here's the instructions for how to do something in PC settings so I want them next to each other so I can see them well the first thing I can do is what's called snap in windows 8 you could snap a window to one side or the other and so you could have two things running at the same time in windows 8.1 you could then adjust to make maybe one of them two thirds and the other one one third you didn't have to do 50-50 they've kind of now taken that up to the next level and so I need to kind of do two things and narrate at the same time here because they have added some features that you have not seen before if you haven't looked at windows 10 so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take my Internet Explorer window and I want it to take up the left half of the screen so what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab the title bar here I'm going to drag that over to the left side of my screen and you'll notice now there's a gray area on the left side of my screen that's where if I let go of the mouse button that's where it's going to drop this window so I'm going to let go now here's the new part and this is the part you're seeing over on the right hand side of the screen on the right hand side of the screen it's now saying hey I've seen that you've put one program off to the left what other running program would you like to put off to the right as to which program I want to choose from and I want PC settings so I'm going to click on that and it's now going to fill the upper right hand side of the screen it used to be that windows would choose for you or it would give you your one program and one half of the screen and then leave the other half of your screen blank until you have found the program you were looking for one of the benefits here now with the new snap it's called snap assist that it will make suggestions for what it is you might want to put in the rest of the screen now that's a 50-50 the other thing you can now do and this is where I'm getting a little tricky on this so bear with me here I'm going to make this I'm going to pull that out of my snap and I'm going to drag this over to the right but then I'm going to try to let's see there's a way to do this okay in this case notice it's now part of the screen I was trying to do a quarter of the screen and this is where I kind of got this weird two thirds of one half but notice snap assist is still down here and I can say you know what I want to put oh weather okay this is where I'm totally blaming myself here this is not working the way it's supposed to you're supposed to be able to put these things into quarters you see if I can get it to it's not working and there's my snap assist with my weather okay I've seen a demo I have actually pulled it off before for some reason I cannot get it to work today and I'm going to completely blame me on that but you could theoretically have four programs running in the four quarters and each time you fill in a half or a quarter that snap assist will show you in the screen real estate that's left what it is you can pick from to snap into that area so I think that's what the person was getting to with the asking so that that's how that kind of snap assist to works now we will take this to the next level in just a minute here but I will just pause for anybody who might be typing a question that's how the new snap assist works the other thing is your alt tab still works so if I press alt tab but it's going to look like this it's going to show you your open programs give you a full blown preview window and it's actually going to show you what shape they're currently in so if I want to switch over to PC settings I still have that alt tab available to me they just kind of cleaned up that interface a little bit and as always the best key combination in the world windows key M minimizes everything so you can always get back to your clean desktop excuse me with a windows the person who asked about this and that said yes that is what I was curious about thanks so if you're the type of person now I got to admit the screen we're looking at here is actually a low resolution monitor and square so that might be part of the issue with the snapping and getting things to line up I'm thinking that the machine I had was a higher resolution widescreen monitor and that whole putting things in corners was working much better so it could be the fact that the type of monitor that I'm using and the resolution I'm using might not be working as well with that as I would like so one of the other buttons we haven't talked about here I'll get back to searching in a few minutes but this task view, task view is kind of like the alt tab that you're used to but I'm going to go ahead and click on that now this brings up our alt tab as you can see here and then I can go ahead with my mouse or if I was on a touch screen switch to a program but the other thing I want to show you here and I know we've got some kind of a higher techie people in the room right now, hi break I'm talking to you down here at the bottom if you bring that up we have add a desktop this is something that has been around in Linux for years and finally finally Microsoft is adding this to Windows so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to click add a desktop and I now have two desktops here's the desktop where I'm running my weather program okay and so let's say here I'm running my weather program and we're going to go ahead and bring up Internet Explorer also so we've got that going on and let's say on this desktop I'm just kind of tooling around checking Facebook things like that but if I switch over to this desktop I now have I can run a completely different set of programs over here I can run Chrome give that a second to launch up there and I could run the store let's say so if I now switch back to this you will see that I have this desktop with this set of programs running but I also have this desktop with this set of programs running so you can create I think four or five or six now you're getting into RAM and CPU issues here but you can actually run multiple desktops on Windows now so if you like to organize your work so that on this screen I'm working on this stuff and then when I want to I'm going to switch over to this desktop and I'm going to work on this stuff and kind of never the tween shall meet you have the ability to switch between multiple desktops well that is something apparently that was very wanted Nathan Carrzon says add a desktop finally finally finally yes I mean this is I mean you could buy software that would add this to Windows but why this has not been built into Windows years ago I have absolutely no idea it's just one of those things where everybody's like yay Microsoft finally got around to it and so they did so now I've shown this feature to a whole bunch of people and some people will look at me and go well why would I want more than one desktop if the answer if you're asking that question you don't need it but for those of us who are going yay we have multiple desktops we have our reasons and we we love this feature what's your reason I gotta admit personally I don't use it all that much but I see Nathan if you have your reason let us know yeah do you have a microphone there I can unmute you if you want to Nathan let me know otherwise let us know what your reason is in the yeah it's kind of a good way to organize your work if you don't have multiple monitors and you really want to kind of keep I'm gonna use the word firewall and a very loose term between what you're working on so you know you want to keep Facebook and chat running but while you're doing your writing you want to just completely switch over to another desktop and work on that writing and so that stuff still running in the background but it's not it's something you want to kind of set off to the side it's kind of about the use case scenario I envision it with he's oh Brig McCoy actually says I use multiple desktops all the time in Linux to separate projects one desktop for each major project yeah that could work too exactly so it's that it's that way of kind of organizing and separating your work and that is a great way to do it and so can you show again how that you how you actually switch desktops what the process was describe it a little menu we have a search we start start button search button and then we have the task view button and you click that and then you you will have your list of desktops down at the bottom of the screen here and as you hover over them it will show you which programs are running in which desktop so brand new button and Nathan says he likes to use desktops like some people use user accounts and he says I like to flip between Netflix and a desktop full of my daughters web pages and one for my web pages so if you have different people yeah that works too that way you don't have to log out log back in and then if you want to close a desktop we just go back to our task view and there's this wonderful little X here and I just close that desktop now what's really interesting is it has left those it has now made those programs that were running available to me on my current desktop so if you didn't actually close any programs you just close the desktop and move them on to your current desktop or one that's left yeah exactly so actually that kind of surprises me I hadn't tried that before and I love how my video is now kind of hovering in the middle of the screen here so we're going to turn that off so basically just jammed all the running programs on to a single desktop now I want to stress here one more time this is a technical preview and these features are subject to change so if you just looked at what happened it went that's horrible that could change between now and next summer so we'll see what happens or if you really want it somehow tell them keep that yeah well and there is a feedback mechanism here there's this welcome to the technical preview and when I at the end when I show people how to get it there there is a feedback mechanism that you'll take a look at and it is clever than not closing programs when you close desktops we do have a question going back to the snapping since before we get too far away from that first Nathan really liked it he says windows 10 snap assist is a change I didn't know that I really really wanted but someone wants to know can you snap things stacked or just side by side if by stacked you meant they're kind of like if I did this and then kind of over like there was a thing and when yeah yeah yeah used to be that now not to my knowledge I have not seen that it's side by side or it's it's 25% quadrants so you could do like a 50 and 225 or you do a 5050 or 425 but I have not seen a stack windows feature and I'm just looking here just for fun to see if it's there or clicking on my desktop a setting or something that you can yeah no I'm not seeing that so yeah I'm thinking about it I'm not sure I've ever actually used that myself but you know I'm sure there's a use for it for somebody okay so let me close a couple of things up here I do have another follow up question somebody just said can you do a 5050 horizontal instead of side by side like on top of each other let's no it's not letting it do that no because if we go up to the top that full screens it so no at them and again I will just say maybe later but right now no it is just horizontal yeah Nathan said he uses the horizontal 5050 a lot for word documents one above each other for working on two different things yeah yeah I'm just gonna kind of make a guess here at the moment stacking horizontally yeah on top of each other when you get into widescreen monitors can make things really hard to use now I'm not saying you shouldn't do it if you have a use great but I'm just thinking that they might not be doing it because of ultra widescreen monitors where side by side works a little better than up and down but alright okay so let me move on to a couple more things that I want to show you here one is in the file explorer just a quick new little feature there is now this home area it used to search you out in this PC or my PC now we have a new home screen where you can pin some favorites it will show you frequently used folders and then recent files and if you dig into the settings you can change what is shown here you can change how many recent files things like that if I wanted to let's say in favorites here I have desktop downloads and videos let's say I wanted to make this a favorite now my screenshots folder is a favorite so a little more of kind of a default quick access to your stuff in the file explorer that wasn't there before and again you know it will be useful to somebody and not useful to others so there you go okay the last thing I want to show you is this search button down here I mentioned earlier the searching everywhere on the start screen but there is actually a search button now that you can click on and that's going to kind of bring up this little search window this like with the search everywhere is a Bing search at the moment I do not know if you're going to be able to customize that in the future but it is a Bing search it is supposed to remember recent searches and I did some searches earlier this morning and they are now not here so I do not know where they went but let's just do a quick dummy search here for library you will see that that is interesting it launched overdrive I did okay I know what happened but I don't know why that happened so let me let me back up here again and go back to my search screen and you will see here oh here are my recent searches I know this one works let's search Nebraska Library Commission this does not actually launch your browser this launches the search app which works like a browser and it does a Bing search on a on my keywords basically if I shut that down and I go back here and I do click on my recent search for yaw cam that is also going to do a quick search even though I do have yaw cam installed now the one I tested earlier which is kind of I think what happened with overdrive is I search desk pins which is the program I am using if you see on my video window here a little red pin here that is what is keeping this on top of everything else notice if I just wait it starts going oh wait I found a help I found the desk pins program I found the installation zip file and here are some other searches if I was to press enter and I think this is what happened with library it ran the first thing it found and in this case it would have run the desk pins help so let me set this over again if I just click search and type library and I just wait ok and I can't type library correctly notice it does give me overdrive ah but then here is file history settings home group because these things do involve what are called libraries in that or if I actually wanted to do a Bing search itself so the difference between this search button and the search on the start menu I am still trying to work that out a little bit but there are similar results faster access to particular things or it launches that search app this is something I need to play with this is why I saved it towards the end because I am still trying to work out the slight differences between these two different things ok one last thing I want to talk about before I tell you about how you can get this if you want Windows 8.1 there is the charms bar which is that thing that shows up if you take your mouse pointer go all the way over to the right hand side of the screen or the lower right hand corner and you get this the search PC settings things like that in this version of the technical preview that is turned off but that does not mean the charms bar has disappeared in the technical preview if you want the charms bar you can press win C on your keyboard and the charms bar does show up and you have that search share start devices and settings along with your clock date and time down here the charms are not going away they are just kind of temporarily hidden in this particular technical preview so if you are a Windows 8 user and are looking for the charms in Windows 10 technical preview those are available to you just press win C in an update eventually as I understand it they will be turning back on the whole come in from the right or move your mouse pointer all the way to the right hand side of the screen ok well that's pretty much it that's the big features there there's not a lot of them but they are big changes so let's talk about how you get it we will provide all these links to you at the end in our delicious account you can either go to mine or Crystal will be copying these over to go in the show notes but if you want to get the Windows 10 technical preview you can it is completely available for free and it's at the moment that the URL is Microsoft.com just search for Microsoft technical preview they ask for your email address you sign up and then you can download the ISO file for the Windows 10 technical preview in both 32 bit and 64 bit and there are some other versions floating around if you want to run on a server and things like that so it is completely available to anybody who wants it you just need to give them your email address and then you can download a 2 to 3 gigabyte file to do that now once you have that ISO file you have a couple of options you can burn it to a DVD and you could install it on some hardware that you have lying around if you've got spare hardware I had some spare hardware here so I just went and did a completely clean install if you've got a test machine that's running Windows 7 and you want to run this you could run it as an upgrade to an existing installation just please don't do this on a mission critical machine do this on spare hardware that being said maybe you want to play with this but you don't have any spare hardware there's another option that works great I've done it on several machines the other link you want to pay attention to is a program called VMWare player now I can spend a whole hour itself getting into the concept of virtual machines but what this program allows you to do it's completely free you can download it for Windows or Linux and I have done it for both you download and install this program you run this program and then you use this program to install the ISO you got for Microsoft so what you're going to do is you run it and you create what's called a virtual machine and you say which is just a file on your on your computer you then say I want to install the technical preview to this virtual machine it's kind of like where earlier we talked about multiple desktops in this case you're creating multiple computers on your computer and you say my ISO files over here please install the technical preview as a virtual machine as a fake computer and what happens is you come back you run the VMWare player and you say please boot my Windows 10 technical preview and it will run the Windows 10 technical preview in a window on your existing computer and anything you it will act like you're running a computer in a computer and it won't affect your main machine it will just run in this little window this little package itself so my laptop that I currently take around and give presentations on it boots to Windows 8 but then I can go to VMWare player and run Windows 10 inside a window if I want to I've got an Ubuntu Linux box at home I've installed VMWare player I can boot to Ubuntu and then I can run the technical preview in a window if I want to test it on that hardware so even if you don't have a spare machine you can run it as a virtual machine and it runs slick it rolls in about 10 minutes it's really easy to use if you've got more questions we're running short on time I can take some questions about that now if you want to or you can send me an email and I can happily run you through how to do it we have time if people do have questions we start about 5 after so not a problem I'll take some questions now but if somebody really needs a step by step we don't have a time to do that but I can point you to some resources for that and I've like I said I've run it on at least two other machines in a virtual environment and it works great so if you don't have spare hardware I mean you know a whole desktop and a monitor and a keyboard and whatever you can run it as a VM on existing hardware and still get to play with it Nathan wants to know can you show again how much hard drive space Windows 10 takes up after it's unpacked and updated I think you showed in the beginning but he came in later yeah I can do that okay so this is a 2.6 gigahertz machine running a Core 2 Duo with only two gigs of RAM so you can guess you can see how smooth this has been running it's a 500 gig hard drive but I have literally just installed Windows 10 there's been a couple of updates so far and I have installed maybe five programs I mean this video program you're seeing me in I installed Chrome I installed GoToWebinar I've installed very little on this machine and I am now using just under 20 gigs of storage the rest of it is completely empty at this point so you know if you've got an old machine with a 50 gig hard drive in it you're going to at least get this running if nothing else and not a lot of RAM necessary so very low overhead one other comment I'll make related to this issue if you do run it in a virtual machine one of the things the program will ask you is how much of your existing RAM do you want to set aside for use by this virtual machine so for example on my home computer I have 10 gigabytes of RAM but if I run Windows 10 in a virtual machine I have to use some of that RAM for the virtual machine and I've said 2 gigabytes and it's run perfectly smooth and it's running on 2 gigabytes of RAM here so you know like I said low overhead and it's something you can run an old hardware or a virtual machine he's impressed that it's only 17.9 yeah I mean I don't know what's going on because it was 15 earlier but I've downloaded something without paying attention going on here one other thing I mentioned I said I mentioned something about command line for those of you in the audience who are command line junkies cut copy and paste have never worked the way it should in the command line you've always had to right click and select and you could never use keyboard shortcuts for selecting text cut copy and paste you had to use the mouse things like that they haven't turned it on yet but they have said it is coming you will be able to use ctrl-v ctrl-c ctrl-x at the command line so if you like to copy and paste content at the command line they are finally going to turn that on I tested it before the show it was not turned on yet but that is coming so a lot of people who are command line junkies will like that I'm sure Vern, our head techie here will love that he cracks the ribs at the command line any other questions or comments coming in anybody have anything else they want to know pretty much my show not a lot but significant so any comment on the folks who have said that the preview has a key logger in it I've read about this part of the technical preview is kind of a they are paying attention to what you are doing they want to see how people are using it that kind of makes sense to help it out but is that cool is it something they let you know right off the bat by the way we are doing this as part of the installation there is a screen that says as participating in this here is kind of what you are allowing us to do I will admit I probably didn't read that as close as I could have because I totally missed this but I've been told it's there and I believe there are ways to customize some of those but I just accepted all the defaults when I installed it so probably another reason not to do real live work but I got you know we can get into a whole conversation of if Google has your email what does Google know about you so and I would trust Microsoft to not steal my eBay password I guess if I was doing that this is Brig and he does say thanks he's been a little more paranoid about things like that since Adobe Digital Editions 4.x which I think which I believe is in your that's in your links for this month yeah it is um yeah so usually I share a couple things in news and so here's I was thinking of avoiding this but thank you for coming up Brig okay so the two the news bits that I want to cover this month just two short ones real quick here one one is this every everything you need that's supposed to be need I don't know there's a typo there you need to know about the lack of e-book security in Adobe Digital Editions it has been discovered that Adobe has been collecting data on what you read now I went I you know basically went through the roof in my office when I first read about this and I intentionally said you know what I'm going to conference I'm gonna let this settle down before I try to have an opinion it is a security problem there are issues potentially with library laws and they are sending the data which technically by installing the software you have agreed to they are sending the data unencrypted and unclear so there are some security and privacy issues there to even ignoring state library law Adobe has said that they are going to issue a patch shortly to take care of the greater security issue of sending in that data and it only affects there were some rumors that said otherwise but according to all reports I've read recently it only affects books that you download and read in Adobe Digital Editions which from my anecdotal experience is a very small percentage of your patrons because most people are running the overdrive app at this point I'm not saying there are no patrons who use Adobe Digital Editions but it isn't the number that there was two years ago so something you want to be familiar with I did link to one rather kind of on the short end that covers the gamut of the information needed out there in that list so I would say let's not everybody totally freak out but let's definitely pay attention to this start the other one I want to show people real quick here is this is a new program out of the New York Times called Madison and what they're trying to do here is to go through the old newspaper ads that have not been indexed in the newspaper and have crowdsourced the indexing of that I'm probably oversimplifying this a little bit but they will bring up a page and they will highlight an ad and they will ask you what is this ad about so it wasn't an ad for upholstery or it wasn't an ad for candy and you can provide that information so if you're that type of person who likes to help out in a large scale digitization project this is something that you may want to take a look at cool so that's my news thank you very good for making me talk about that bring yeah and real quick before we wrap up anybody in the audience actually played with Windows 10 yet say something if you have I'm getting the impression none of you have and that's cool but now you should now you know it's not that bad install it into VM if anything else and play with it a bit alright that's my bet if you have any other questions or comments we'll happily take them but I think officially not seeing anything I'm going to send this back to Kristen to wrap up okay Nathan says it's not played with it yet and Briggs says we have a touch Windows 10 we're working on convincing our current vendors to provide the Linux clients yeah good luck yeah okay let me know how that goes sure alright okay well thank you very much Michael thank you everyone I'm going to pull back presenter control here to my screen so that I can wrap up here there we go alright so that will wrap it up for this week's episode of Encompass Live it has been recorded and we'll be posted here on 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