The left side is meant to be managed and run entirely by Windows itself. See your account name and picture in the upper-left corner of the Start menu Figure ? The picture is also a pop-up menu. And its commands all have to do with switching from one account to another.

See Chapter Some keystrokes from previous Windows versions are still around. This command takes you back to the Lock screen described at the beginning of this chapter. In essence, it throws a sheet of inch-thick steel over everything you were doing, hiding your screen from view. Whatever you had running remains open behind the scenes.

Sign out. It then presents a new Login screen so that somebody else can log in. Beneath your name icon, you get a list of the programs that Windows sees you using a lot. Windows computes this list automatically and continuously. See Jump Lists in the Taskbar for details on creating, deleting, and working with jump lists. Close Settings.

In general, the bottom of the left side is devoted to listing important places on the computer. On a shiny new PC, the list includes these:. File Explorer. Yes, adjusting the settings and preferences of your PC is about six steps quicker now, since Settings is listed right here in the Start menu. Chapter 7 covers Settings in absurd detail. Hard though it may be to believe, there may come a day when you want to shut down or restart your computer.

See Change the color. All apps opens the complete master list of all your programs, as described below. These are some of your options:. Documents : This command opens up your Documents folder, a very important folder indeed. That principle makes navigation easy. You never have to wonder where you filed something, since all your stuff is sitting right there in Documents. Out of the box, Windows puts your downloaded files into this Downloads folder which is inside your Personal folder.

It makes perfect sense to add this item to your Start menu so you have quick access to it. You can add other important folders to your Start menu. In the Settings window top right , choose Personalization. On the next screen, click Start. Music, Pictures, Videos. Microsoft assumes correctly that most people these days use their home computers for managing digital music, photos, and video collections. As you can probably guess, the Music, Pictures, and Videos folders are intended to house them—and these Start menu commands are quick ways to open them.

In fact, whatever software came with your phone, digital camera, or MP3 player probably dumps your photos into, and sucks your music files out of, these folders automatically. This command opens the HomeGroup window HomeGroups. Network opens what else? Personal folder. As the box below makes clear, Windows keeps all your stuff—your files, folders, email, pictures, music, bookmarks, even settings and preferences—in one handy, central location: your Personal folder.

This folder bears your name, or whatever account name you typed when you installed Windows. Why did Microsoft bury my files in a folder three levels deep? Because Windows has been designed for computer sharing. Each person who uses the computer will turn on the machine to find his own separate desktop picture, set of files, web bookmarks, font collection, and preference settings.

Like it or not, Windows considers you one of these people. But in its little software head, Windows still considers you an account holder and stands ready to accommodate any others who should come along. In any case, now you should see the importance of the Users folder in the main hard drive window.

Inside are folders—the Personal folders—named for the people who use this PC. You can ignore the Public folder. This is only the first of many examples in which Windows imposes a fairly rigid folder structure. Still, the approach has its advantages.

By keeping such tight control over which files go where, Windows keeps itself pure—and very, very stable. Other operating systems known for their stability, including Mac OS X, work the same way.

Furthermore, keeping all your stuff in a single folder makes it very easy for you to back up your work. It also makes life easier when you try to connect to your machine from elsewhere in the office over the network or elsewhere in the world over the Internet , as described in Chapters Chapter 13 and Chapter You can jump directly to your word processor, calendar, or favorite game, for example, just by choosing its name in this scrolling list.

Try it! Then tap the Enter key, the key, or the space bar. Just press the and keys to highlight the item you want or type a few letters of its name. Then press Enter to seal the deal. But there is one handy trick in Windows 10 that never existed before: You can now jump around in the list using an alphabetic index, shown at right in Figure Turns out that those letter headings A, B, C… are also buttons.

When you click one, Windows offers you a grid of the entire alphabet right. If you have a lot of programs, this trick can save you a lot of scrolling. It also houses a number of folders. See Figure Submenus, also known as cascading menus, largely have been eliminated from the Start menu. Instead, when you open something that contains other things—like a folder listed in the Start menu—you see its contents listed beneath, indented slightly, as shown at right in Figure Click the folder name again to collapse the sublisting.

Keyboard freaks should note that you can also open a highlighted folder in the list by pressing the Enter key or the key. Close the folder by pressing Enter again or the key. Software-company folders. These generally contain programs, uninstallers, instruction manuals, and other related junk. Program-group folders. Another set of folders is designed to trim down the Programs menu by consolidating related programs, like Games, Accessories little single-purpose programs , and Maintenance.

Everything in these folders is described in Chapter 8. Nor can you change the order of anything here. You do, however, have three opportunities to redesign the left side:. Move something to Start or the taskbar.

Turns out you can right-click its name on the left side. Add certain Windows folders to the Important Places list. You do that in Settings, as described on Recently Added. How cool is this? Just right-click it or hold your finger down on it ; from the shortcut menu, choose Uninstall.

Confirm in the dialog box that appears. The right side of the Start menu is all that remains of the Great Touchscreen Experiment of , during which Microsoft expected every PC on earth to come with a touchscreen.

Instead of a Start menu, you got a Start screen , stretching from edge to edge of your monitor, displaying your files, folders, and programs as big rectangular tiles. Unfortunately, the Start screen covered up your entire screen, blocking whatever you were working on. And it just felt detached from the rest of the Windows world.

Turns out most people preferred the Start menu. There were some nice aspects of the Start-screen idea, though.

The Calendar tile shows you your next appointment. Your Mail tile shows the latest incoming subject line. The People tile shows Twitter and Facebook posts as they pour in. Not all Start menu tiles display their own names. Some apps, like the ones for Calendar, People, and Mail, are meant to be visual dashboards. A tinted, rectangular tooltip bar appears, identifying the name. So in Windows 10, Microsoft decided to retain those colorful live tiles—on the right side of the Start menu Figure You can also adjust the height of the Start menu—by dragging the top edge.

You can goose it all the way to the top of your screen, or you can squish it down to mushroom height. The right side, however, is your playground. You can customize it in lots of different ways. If you have a mouse or a trackpad, you can make the right side of the Start menu either wider or taller; just grab the right edge or the top edge and drag.

Maybe you were one of the 11 people who actually liked Windows 8, including the way it had a Start screen instead of a Start menu. Well, that look is still available. Right-click anywhere on the desktop. Touchscreen: Hold your finger down on the desktop.

From the shortcut menu, choose Personalize. In this mode, the left side of the Start menu is gone. The live tiles fill your entire desktop which is handy for touchscreens.

Just turn on Tablet mode Chapter In Tablet mode, the Start screen is standard and automatic. With the Start menu open, just drag the tile to a new spot. The other tiles scoot out of the way to make room. That works fine if you have a mouse or a trackpad. Instead, hold your finger down on the tile for half a second before dragging it. Tiles come in four sizes: three square sizes and one rectangle. As part of your Start menu interior decoration binge, you may want to make some of them bigger and some of them smaller.

Maybe you want to make the important ones rectangular so you can read more information on them. Maybe you want to make the rarely used ones smaller so that more of them fit into a compact space. Right-click the tile. Touchscreen: Hold your finger down on the tile; tap the … button that appears.

From the shortcut menu, choose Resize. All icons give you a choice of Small and Medium; some apps offer Wide or Large options, too. Tiles on the right side come in four sizes: Small tiny square, no label ; Medium 4x the times of Small—room for a name ; Wide twice the width of Medium ; and Large 4x the size of Medium.

Wide and Large options appear only for apps whose live tiles can display useful information. Drag them around into a mosaic that satisfies your inner Mondrian. You can add tiles to the right side. They can be apps, folders, or disks but not individual files.

You can use either of two techniques: dragging or right-clicking. The drag method. The right-click method. Touchscreen: Hold your finger down on the icon for a second. From the shortcut menu, choose Pin to Start. In the Edge browser, you can also add a web page to the right side. With the page open, click the … button at top right; choose Pin to Start.

In each case, the newly installed tile appears at the bottom of the right side. You might have to scroll to see it. Some of your right side tiles are live tiles— tiny dashboards that display real-time incoming information. There, on the Mail tile, you see the subject lines of the last few incoming messages; there, on the Calendar tile, is your next appointment; and so on.

It has to be said, though: Altogether, a Start menu filled with blinky, scrolling icons can look a little like Times Square at midnight. Touchscreen: Hold your finger down on it, and then tap. Open the Start menu. Right-click the tile you want to eliminate. Touchscreen: Hold your finger down on it, and then tap the … button. From the shortcut menu, choose Unpin from Start.

It works like this:. Drag a tile to the very bottom of the existing ones. Touchscreen: Hold your finger still for a second before dragging. When you drag far enough—the right side might scroll, but keep your finger down—a horizontal bar appears, as shown in Figure You want to create a new group right here. Go get some other tiles to drag over into the new group to join it, if you like. If you like, you can drag that strip up or down to move the entire group to a new spot among your existing groups.

Or horizontally, if you have a multicolumn right side. Top: To create a new tile group, start by dragging one lonely tile below all other tiles. This is your colonist. Let go. Bottom: Type a name for the group. Use the grip strip to drag the group into a new spot, if you like. At any point, you can rename a group click or tap its name; type. To eliminate a group, just drag all of its tiles into other groups, one at a time. When the group is empty, its name vanishes into wherever withered, obsolete tile groups go.

If you like your Start menu to look like it did in the good old days, with only the left side showing, you can do that, as shown in Figure Now you can open apps only from the left side or the taskbar. Top: To remove all the tiles from the right side, right-click it and choose Unpin from Start. Touchscreen: Hold your finger down on the tile, and then tap the … button to see Unpin from Start. Middle: Now only the left column remains, just as it was in Windows 7. Bottom: Drag the right edge of the menu inward, closing up the empty space where the right side used to be.

Still, you have options. To see them, click on the hamburger menu at the top-right. From there, you’ll be able to customize the look of the app, select privacy settings, and choose basic functions like email composition options. With my testing, Thunderbird was a mixed bag for sending and receiving speeds. Outbound emails were received almost instantly from my web-based Gmail account. But receiving emails in the Thunderbird client took anywhere from 10 seconds to several minutes.

Send Later lets you schedule future times to send emails or send messages repeatedly using rules such as “every two days. Thunderbird price : Free. One of the more modern and user-friendly email clients I tested, Mailbird ‘s array of third-party integrations makes managing both email and your most-used apps easy.

When connected, the integrations share the UI with your inbox, which makes Mailbird attractive for users who don’t want to leave. Slack, Trello, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Twitter are just some of the apps with native integrations.

To get started, download the client, add your email or connect to an existing client , and you’re ready to go. As your emails sync, you’ll be asked to select a layout and connect third-party apps.

To connect, click on your app, sign in, and you’re ready to go without leaving your inbox. Each app you add appears as an icon in the sidebar for one-click access. With my Slack account connected, I just had to glance at the sidebar to see activity and quickly respond to messages. One new feature is speed reading, which Mailbird claims will increase your email productivity by allowing you to quickly absorb sentences all at once rather than identifying individual words. First, select the speed read option in an email.

Then click how fast from to 1, words per minute you want the email to play back. Your email will then be flashed on the screen one word at a time at your desired speed. One way to use your inbox without resorting to other tools is the Snooze feature. If you want to be reminded of an event such as a webinar, right-click the email, pick a date and time, and the email will appear back in your box at that moment.

It will also be stored in your Snooze folder to let you see what’s coming up. With the unified mailbox feature, you can add multiple email accounts and manage all emails and folders from your one inbox. Windows Mail. I’ve used the Windows Mail app regularly since the ’90s and continue to use it as a secondary email account because it’s both free and simple to use. Click the settings wheel to find all your available options, from personalization to notifications.

You can create a signature and set up basic automatic replies. Personalization lets you create a few different themes with accent and background colors. One feature I like is the Focused inbox—a filter that learns which emails you read regularly and places these in a separate inbox.

All other emails are put in the Other inbox. You can specify Other emails to be moved to the Focused inbox by right-clicking and selecting Move to Focused. There’s also a Microsoft To Do add-on that lets you schedule tasks and create repeatable to-do lists with a few clicks from the taskbar.

You won’t really find many bells or whistles in Mail for Windows—which, for plenty of people, is perfect for your inbox. Windows Mail price : Free. Microsoft Outlook. Since the ’90s, Microsoft Outlook has been the go-to mail app for Windows for businesses large and small. It’s a sophisticated platform with many advanced features, but it’s still relatively easy to use. And when bundled with Microsoft —a suite of several dozen productivity apps including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint, among others—it makes for a powerful platform.

For any business that wants to buy one email client and never look back, Outlook is that platform. To start, you get a handful of themes and seemingly limitless options for organizing all of the functions within the UI. That includes customizing the horizontal top menu the Ribbon , which contains all your commands for performing tasks. You can add any of hundreds of command options for quick access based on your preferences.

And there are hundreds of third-party integrations called Add-Ins to customize your experience. Click the blue Viva Insights icon on the top-right ribbon to get your insights for the day: view tasks, prepare for upcoming meetings, things like that.

One I found particularly helpful is the daily briefing I got for following up on requests I’d sent. For example, I emailed a contact about trying to get a meeting last week. In the briefing email, I can click Done or Remind me , which automatically sets a reminder for the next day or a custom date. Or click the bar graph icon above your name to see insights into your productivity.

How is your day spent e. Are you distracted by email? You’ll get productivity tips based on your most recent work patterns.

If you’re set on using the email client developed by Microsoft, it’s not going to be a compromise at all. Microsoft Outlook price : You need to purchase or own a Microsoft license to use Outlook after a free trial.

Note that Business Basic does not include the desktop client. Kiwi for Gmail. If you want your Gmail experience replicated in an email client, Kiwi for Gmail brings that—and then some. Not only does it provide the same Gmail UI you’re used to, but it also lets you work on all your Google apps without leaving the client—no opening files in new browser windows. Once you connect, your Google Workspace is automatically loaded into the UI on the left sidebar next to your familiar Gmail inbox.

From there, it’s just a click to open Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Because it’s designed to mirror the Gmail experience, Kiwi doesn’t provide many additional productivity tools or customization options, but you can use all of Gmail’s settings to make the inbox your own.

And they do offer integrations with Zoom, Grammarly, Boomerang, and a handful of others. Kiwi for Gmail Pricing : Free for Basic license supporting one account.

It has more features than any other email client, with the exception of Outlook, so learning what each does will take some time. But I found many of the common features, like setting up filters, folders, and rules, were self-explanatory.

For the harder bits, the company’s support and forum section are excellent. Then all your data messages, address books, configuration files will be sent and stored encrypted.

You’ll get a warning if an attachment has a double extension for example, photo. Executable files cannot be opened from within the client, and with the API, you can add third-party anti-virus and spam plugins. You can select a light or dark theme and from there, fine-tune the UI’s menu and toolbar to include only what you want. Format what appears, such as commands, the font, and the colors in messages.

You can change almost any field or box you’re in by right-clicking and selecting Preferences in the menu. The MailTicker provides a running stock-like ticker on your screen for all unread emails. The ticker’s speed and colors can be customized, and you can drag or hide it anywhere on your screen. SmartBat lets you make notes on simple text files like a digital notepad or diary. And the QR code generator lets you quickly generate a code from text, emails, and just about anything else within an email.

The best email app for Windows is the one you enjoy using. Find the one that best matches how you use your PC, and try it out: other than downloading the software and connecting your email, there’s not much else to do for a test drive.

Keep testing until you find the one you’ll feel like spending your day using. This article was originally published in March by Joseph Yaker. Get productivity tips delivered straight to your inbox. Chris is a writer and business professional with 25 years of experience in a variety of roles. He likes books, bikes, brews, birds, and travel.

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