Windows 10 Redstone 4: New features and changes are waiting for you?

Windows 10 is 3 years old, and we still haven't heard anything about Windows 11, or Windows 12. Only Windows 10 updates are still released regularly by Microsoft.

Version 1803, Redstone 4, officially named Windows 10 Spring Creators Update is the next major release, bringing new features and improvements. Although still in development, there have been some Preview revealing upcoming changes on Windows 10.

This article is a reference to Pureinfotech, which provides in-depth information about the new features and changes that Microsoft is making for a major update on Windows 10 this year (2018).

History of Microsoft Windows operating system throughout the ages

New on the desktop of Windows 10 Redstone 4

There are a lot of things that have been changed on the Windows 10 screen. Let's find out the most obvious changes below.

Start menu

The Start menu adds interactive effects, brightens hidden borders, makes navigating and interacting with applications easier. This feature appears when hovering over items in the All apps list and Live Tiles.

Start menu on Windows 10 Redstone 4

When right-clicking on applications in Microsoft Store and choosing More, you will see the Settings option, which will take you straight to the application's settings page.

Action Center

When using the dark theme option, the link text of Clear all, Expand, Collapse and See more will use the color of the current system. The text on the Clear all button is replaced with Clear all notifications to clarify the action of the button.

This is how to customize and disable (turn off) Action Center on Windows 10

For touch devices, Action Center supports touching two fingers to ignore all notifications. If a message does not support skipping, the system will display an X instead of an arrow.

Action Center on Windows 10 Redstone 4

The last change is Action Center using am / pm to display the session in 12 hour hour format.

How to create notes on Action Center for Windows 10

Cortana

Windows 10 introduces Cortana Collections, a new feature that allows virtual assistants to save time by recognizing and remembering everything, like recipes, restaurants, books, movies, TV shows you want to see and items you buy online that you don't need to do anything.

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Cortana Collections

Cortana will collect the above information and put it into Collections in an organized manner, you can customize it more as you like. Cortana also learns how you can use it to suit your habits, meaning that items you don't like may not be collected by Cortana and put into Collections in the future.

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To make Cortana's actions less confusing, instead of appearing in both Cortana and Action Center, move all the active Cortana content you need to do to Action Center. With this change, Cortana will have more space to provide tips, support and tools to help you work more effectively.

Finally, if your location information is set up on your computer, the assistant will remind you of the necessary content based on that location.

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Near Share (Share near)

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In this update, you will find a new feature called Near Share, which allows you to share any file, website link with nearby devices, use Bluetooth, WiFi easily, like Apple's AirDrop feature.

This feature is enabled by default, you can turn it on or off, using the Quick action button in Action Center or Share experiences in Settings.

Near Share feature on Windows 10 Redstone 4

New feature in Settings

Settings in Windows 10 Redstone 4 has a lot of changes, we will learn the changes in each part of Settings.

How is Control Panel and Settings menu on Windows 10 different?

display

You can adjust the brightness of SDR content on HDR screen.

Sound

New Sound settings in the System section, provide normal sound settings. Not only can you control the system audio, microphone, but you can also select input, output and audio troubleshooting devices on this page.

Install Sound on Windows 10 Redstone 4

Share experiences

The Share experiences page is updated to match the settings for the new Near Share feature. Here, you can turn on or off Near Share, configure permissions and change the default file directory.

Typing

Windows 10 also introduced many improvements in the hard keyboard typing experience. Here, you can turn on hints, automatically edit words when suggested, add a space after selecting a hint.

Typing options

Startup

In the Apps section you will see a new Startup installation, which allows you to control the application that starts up with the system. With Redstone 4, you won't have to use Task Manager to turn off applications that start with the system anymore.

Startup options on Windows 10 Redstone 4

Startup tasks

In the Advaced option of applications downloaded from the Microsoft Store, there are additional Startup tasks, allowing users to manage the application's tasks that are allowed to run at startup. However, this is a new feature and needs to be added by the application developer, otherwise it will not be available.

Data usage

Data usage page is receiving the most tweaks in this release. Users can get a better view of data usage in the last 30 days, set data limits for each adapter to avoid overuse of data, and have the option to limit data usage in the background. , thereby reducing total data usage.

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Install Data usage

Ease of Access

Like Data usage, this setting is also very focused by Microsoft in the Redstone update. 4. The settings are divided into groups to help you see, hear, interact quickly and easily.

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display

Display is a new option in Ease of Access, making screen settings generally made faster. Here, you can change screen brightness, turn off system effects, even control notification time and turn off desktop wallpaper.

Cursor, pointer and touch feedback

This new installation page is where you can change the size, color of the mouse and other settings related to the touch mouse, touchpad.

Magnifier

This is a page with almost no changes, except the list of shortcuts that have been replaced by the corresponding settings.

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Narrator

Here you can select the desired audio channel for the output voice using the new Select Narrator audio output device option.

Install Narrator

Keyboard

The Keyboard page has additional options to disable shortcuts for available features.

Activity history

Here you can see all the data Cortana uses for Pick up where you left off and also delete this data if you want.

Options in Activity history

Windows Update

Along with the ability to limit the bandwidth that Windows 10 uses to download system updates / update applications (in the background), starting with version 1803, Delivery Optimization page allows you to limit download bandwidth. down for regular downloads.

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Options in Windows Update

New feature in data entry

Windows 10 also improves the way you use the input devices, whether using handwriting with a pen or using a touch keyboard.

Touch keyboard

Starting with version 1803, the touch keyboard experience will have Acrylic - a new element in Fluent Design System. It also supports standard keyboard layouts for all languages.

Touch keyboard on Windows 10 Redstone 4

Windows 10 Redstone 4 extends the writing feature by drawing on the keyboard for the large keyboard, instead of just the one-handed keyboard.

Draw to write on touch keyboard

Handwriting

Handwriting experience also received some tweaks, including improved spelling and insertion gestures (to add a space between words or letters).

You can use a split gesture (vertically - pinch two fingers together and swipe each finger in a vertical direction) between two words to create a space between words, can draw an insertion gesture in a word to separate the word and then add new letters to it.

emoji

Emoji will appear when you type related words using the touch keyboard. It also supports more languages ​​than before. Just use the Windows + key "." or Windows + ";" To view and select an emoji, you can select multiple emoji because the emoji panel will not disappear until you press the Close button or the Esc key.

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What's new in the system experience?

The Microsoft Fluent Design system softens lighting effects to emphasize feedback-based content and enables default Reveal in CalendarView.

See the calendar on Windows 10 Redstone 4

On startup, the lock screen will display information such as Windows Spotlight, Cortana, Calendar, Mail if you do not log in and wait for a few seconds.

Windows Shell also received some new improvements such as setting up a mixed PDI screen, language, Start menu and People feature.

Other new features on Windows 10

Run dialog: When holding down Ctrl + Shift and then pressing OK or Enter, it will run an advanced task or program.

Applications registered to restart at startup or after shutdown will only occur if the option 'Use my sign-in info to automatically finish setting my device after an update or restart' is enabled in the Sign- settings print.

Microsoft Edge: Features tab mute by clicking the speaker icon or right-clicking on the tab. If you are reading the EPUB for free, you can save the book to your computer and the Books section has some additional options in the right-click menu such as' Remove from device ',' View in Microsoft Store ',' Pin to Start ',' Refresh books . Edge also has the option to save and automatically fill in the form. You can use the new Manage form entries feature in the advanced settings to enter the previous information or Edge will prompt you to save information when filling in a new form.

Mute tab on Microsoft Edge

It can be seen that Microsoft is working hard to bring better experience to users, although sometimes it's just a little adjustment in the installation, but also helps to access and manage features. reasonable Windows, easier.

Let's wait for this official update to land on computers!

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