Google has an excellent free service called Google Fonts. It provides a number of freeware, open source, high quality fonts which any one can use on their own website or in their own app under an open license. Many websites including Winaero.com use them. If you like some font from the Google Fonts library, here is how you can install and use it in your installed copy of Windows 10.
Category: Windows 10
OneDrive to get a Backup feature in Windows 10
We have come to know that Microsoft is working on a new feature for Windows 10 Redstone. OneDrive, the cloud storage and sync service bundled into Windows 10, will allow you soon to backup your personal preferences and data to the cloud. This new option will reach Windows 10 with the Redstone update, and possibly, the placeholders feature may also make a return.
Windows 10 Redstone will get an updated File Explorer
File Explorer, formerly known as Windows Explorer in earlier Windows versions, is the default file management application in Windows for a long time. It has evolved a lot over time to acquire many different features for file management. Windows 10 ships with mostly the same version of Explorer as Windows 8 except for a few changes like Quick Access replacing Favorites. Now, new information has been revealed on Twitter from a Microsoft employee's account which indicates that with the upcoming Redstone update, Microsoft is going to revamp this app to make it a Universal Windows Platform (UWP)/Metro app.
Customize screen savers in Windows 10 using secret hidden options
One of the new features of Windows Vista was the inclusion of nice, beautiful screen savers. These include Bubbles, Ribbons, Mystify and Aurora. All later versions of Windows like Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 include Bubbles, Ribbons and Mystify although Aurora and Windows Energy screensavers are omitted. Not every user knows that these screen savers have many secret hidden options for customizing their appearance and behavior. Today, we will see how to customize these screensavers in Windows 10.
Windows 10 Redstone will not include the old tray calendar
If you prefer the Windows 7-like tray calendar which appears when you click the date at the end of the taskbar, you probably already know that it was possible to get it back in Windows 10. There was a simple Registry tweak which allowed you to disable the modern Date pane of Windows 10 and restore the good old tray calendar with the analog clock. Microsoft has decided to remove this ability.
Windows 10 Redstone will feature intelligent search in Photos app
Windows 10 ships with a Photos app which replaced the Windows Photo Viewer and Photo Gallery. Photos offers very basic functionality to view images from the user's local drive or from the OneDrive cloud storage. Microsoft is finally going to make a small amount of features which their earlier apps had. More features will land in the Photos app with the Redstone update.
The Windows 10 Action Center will become more interactive and useful
New information about upcoming changes to Windows 10 has become available. The Action Center, which currently shows notifications and provides quick access to system actions like airplane mode or screen brightness, will be extended with new functionality. There are a number of interesting features it will get with new upcoming builds. Let's see what those features are.
Windows 10 build 14291 is out, features extensions support in Edge
Microsoft has released a new build of Windows 10. Participants of the Windows Insiders program can get Windows 10 build 14291. Besides regular bugfixes and minor changes, this build comes with extensions support for Microsoft Edge.
Make menus open to the left side in Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7
In modern Windows versions including Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7, it is possible to make all menus such as context menus and app menus to open to the left side of the mouse pointer. By default in Windows, they opens to the right unless you have a Tablet PC in which case the default is menus opening to the left. Here is how the setting can be controlled.
How to create a taskbar settings shortcut in Windows 10
As you may already know, Microsoft has added taskbar properties to the Settings app in the latest builds for Insiders. From now, all taskbar options can be accessed via the Settings app which is optimized for touchscreen users. If you want to open those taskbar options with one click, i.e. from a shortcut on your desktop, you can make this simple tweak to access them faster.
