Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

88 CHAPTER 6 | Taking charge of hardware Likewise, the Apps & Games category offers information that you can use to decide whether the storage space an app is taking is justified. In Figure 6-12, I’ve used the controls at the top of this list to sort by space used. That action automatically shows me which apps are hogging the most space, and I can click any app to uninstall it (and remove its associated data) immediately. Figure 6-12: If you’re curious about how much space an app and its data are using, wonder no longer. The Apps & Features section on the Storage page in Settings offers full details. Setting up printers For decades, futurists have been predicting a paperless society. And in the past few years, we’ve taken a few tentative steps in that direction, with concert tickets, boarding passes, newspapers, and even books (like this one) moving to pure digital formats and saving whole forests in the process. Alas, there are still times when nothing but ink on paper will do, which is why printers aren’t going away any time soon. The nuts and bolts of connecting a printer to a Windows PC haven’t changed much in the past decade. Most modern printers connect to a PC through a USB connection, and Windows is capable of setting up almost all of those printers automatically. For a plain-vanilla laser printer, the Plug and Play process works well, as in the example in Figure 6-13. When Windows 10 detected that a new printer had been plugged into a USB port, it automatically installed the correct drivers.