Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

24 CHAPTER 2 | Personalizing the Windows 10 experience Figure 2-5: Use this Notebook to tell Cortana about what you’re interested in and what you really don’t care about. If you connect email and calendar accounts, Cortana can keep track of your schedule and alert you when it’s time to leave, based on live traffic conditions. You can have Cortana set reminders, keep track of packages and upcoming flights, monitor stock prices for ticker symbols you specify, and deliver news headlines, weather forecasts, and sports results, all based on the interests stored in your Notebook. Customizing the background and lock screen Our distant ancestors painted pictures on the walls of their caves. Modern humans can be considerably more creative in the way we decorate the displays we stare at for much of the day, but the impulse is the same: to create a comfortable, familiar environment. Most options for changing the parts of Windows you see when you’re not working with an app are now under the Personalization heading in Settings. Begin with the Background, which defines what you see on the Windows desktop. Your options include a picture of your own choosing, a solid color, or a slideshow of images from a specific folder. As Figure 2-6 illustrates, when you choose Picture, Windows 10 remembers your five most recent choices.