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New PC Setup By Richard Rost 
5 years ago
Setting up a New Windows 10 PC, Google Chrome Welcome to the first Windows video I've released since 2013. I just got a new Lenovo laptop, and in this video I'm going to take you through the unboxing, Windows setup, show you the apps I like to install, my configuration options, and more! What's Covered (1:05) Links32 bit v 64 bit Office: https://599cd.com/64bit
IntroIn this video, I will show you the complete process of setting up a brand new Windows laptop from unboxing through configuring Windows 10, installing preferred apps, and getting the computer ready for everyday use. We'll go through the initial Windows setup screens, look at Microsoft Edge and how to install Google Chrome, discuss S mode and how to switch out of it, set up Chrome Remote Desktop, customize the taskbar, rename the computer, uninstall the preloaded Microsoft Office trial and install Microsoft 365, add Google Drive with backup and sync, and review essential Windows Update and Security settings.TranscriptWelcome to the first video in a while from WindowsLearningZone.com. My name is Richard Rost, your instructor.I have not released a Windows video in I do not know how long. Yes, I do know how long; I just looked at my YouTube channel and 2013 was the last time I released a Windows 8 video. So it has been a while. I have been spending most of my time over the last few years with Microsoft Access and Excel and I have not gotten back to Windows, Word, PowerPoint, or all that stuff. Well, today I had to unbox a brand new laptop because I need it for some videos I am going to be recording. I figured this is the perfect opportunity for me to record a video from start to finish of me unboxing the computer, setting it up, and configuring Windows just the way I like it so you can see the things that I do and the apps I like to set up. Usually, when I start my Windows class, my beginner level 1 class, I assume that Windows is already installed and set up for the user, so I have never done a video like this before. Here we go. Just so you have an idea of what I will be covering, we will go through the full Windows setup. Now, Windows is always pre-installed when you get a new computer nowadays, so Windows is already on the machine. We just have to go through the setup and configuration questions. We will take a look at Microsoft Edge, their new web browser, and we will see how to configure that. Personally, I am a Google Chrome guy. I love Microsoft, but I have always used Google Chrome ever since it came out. So, I am going to show you how to download and install Chrome. We are going to talk about this new S mode in Windows 10. It is a security mode. Basically, they do not let you download and install any other apps that were not pre-approved by Microsoft in their Microsoft Store. Of course, if you want to download and install anything else, then you have to exit S mode. We will talk about that. I like to set up Chrome Remote Desktop so I can connect to my desktop computer anywhere I happen to be. If I am traveling or I am out of the office, all I have to do is with a couple of clicks, I can connect right in and it is just like I am sitting at that computer. Remote Desktop is one of my favorite apps. I will show you how to clean up the taskbar so you can get rid of all the stuff we do not want. We will rename the computer because it comes pre-configured from the factory with some weird name. Then I am going to show you how to uninstall Microsoft Office because it comes with a trial version, and I find it is better just to wipe it out and install a fresh copy. So, I will install my fresh copy of Microsoft 365. Then I am going to install Google Drive and the backup and sync tool. What that does is it lets you have a folder on your hard drive that automatically syncs up to your Google Drive. So any files you save, any documents, whatever, even if you are offline, as soon as you connect to the internet, they will sync back up. I love that tool. It is a great backup tool. Then we will talk about some Windows Update and some Windows Security stuff. So sit back, relax, and enjoy me talking for the next hour and showing you all the things that I like to set up when I set up a new Windows computer. So I picked up a basic Lenovo IdeaPad 3, which is a simple, I think I paid $300 for it on Amazon. Nothing crazy, nothing fancy, nothing high frills. I just needed it for basic Microsoft Office, mostly Access design, a little Excel, a little Word, and of course, web browsing. In today's market, if that is all you need is business type stuff, you can get away for $350 and you are good for a laptop. I prefer laptops. I have been using Lenovo laptops almost exclusively for the past five or six years. I love them. The one on my desk is a lot more powerful, obviously, but this one is good for just remote use. And of course, the whole reason why I got it was because I need to run Microsoft Office 64-bit. Long story, I will tell you about it later. I have been teaching Windows for a long time. In fact, I have got Windows Vista, Windows 8. I have not updated my Windows classes for Windows 10 yet, so that is coming. That is going to be very soon. But in all the years I have been teaching, I have never done a basic, like unboxing a brand new PC, how to set it up, what options should you pick, what should you do, that kind of stuff. So this is basically me setting up a new computer, what I like to set it up with, how to set up Office, how to set up Google backup, that kind of stuff. The first few minutes here, while I am setting up Windows, you are going to just see still shots taken from my phone of the laptop screen. I could hook up the monitor to an external screen and record the video off of that, but we do not need to go into that much detail. This is all pretty simple, straightforward stuff. Once I actually got Windows installed, I am going to set up Remote Desktop, connect to it, and I am going to show you how to do it too. That way I can control it from the computer that I do my recording from normally, and then I can just record the screens. You will see how that works too. Most of setting up a new PC is just answering some simple questions. It is not like the old days where you really had to know your stuff to set up a new computer. Now it is pretty much just, here are a few simple questions, pick some preferences, and we are good to go. The first thing they ask is to set up your region. I am in the United States. One nice thing that I like, they like Cortana, which is their digital assistant, kind of like Siri or Alexa or any of those, and you can speak, yes, during the setup process. That was kind of nice. Make sure you have got the right keyboard layout, mine is US. If you are in the UK or somewhere else, pick yours. You can add a second keyboard layout if you would like to. I am not going to. I will skip right away. Then they want to get you on the internet, so if you have Wi-Fi, let's connect to the network. If you do not have internet, that is a whole separate class. You can set up a local account on your PC so you do not have to be connected to the internet. But nowadays pretty much everyone is. I will be doing a separate lesson in the future for people who do not have the internet and want to set up their PCs for local access only. But pick your Wi-Fi network if you see it there, hit connect. Type in your password if you have one or you can go push that fancy button on the router for automatic connection. Personally, I am old school. I like to use the password, but whatever works for you. Now go get some coffee. Run a few laps around the block. Read a few chapters of The Hobbit. Entertain yourself. I actually got a kick out of this one myself. When the Windows 10 License Agreement came up, it said, next up the legal stuff, in short, you will need to select accept to use Windows. You can decline, but then no Windows. I am usually the one with the comedy in my tutorial videos, so I was quite happy when that made me chuckle. But read this over. It is not crazy. I am sure if there was something crazy in there, then someone would have said something. But it is all basic stuff. It is the same basic text that has been in every software agreement since the beginning of time. Next, you sign in. Once you are on the internet, you sign in with your Microsoft account. I have got several different Microsoft accounts, which actually kind of confuses me sometimes. I have got the one I use to log into my computers with, then I have got my separate one with my Microsoft 365, my Office subscription. That is different. You will see that later when I install Office. I use [email protected], my main address, my email address to log into Windows, but then I have got a separate one for installing Office. I should merge them, but I have been too lazy. If you do not have a Microsoft account yet, you can create an account. That is a different video. I am not going to cover that right now. All you have to do is go to their website. In fact, I believe I show it in one of my other videos, like the how to get Excel free, or you go to office.com and just set up a Microsoft account. It takes two minutes. It is real simple. Enter your password. Yes, the screens are a little bent like that because I was using my phone to take a picture of the screen. I could not take it straight on to make it perfectly straight because then I would get glare from the window and from the lights. I am not setting up a photo studio for this. This is just a simple informal video for you. Some of my other stuff is more formal; this is not. You can set up a PIN so that you can get onto your computer without having to remember a long password. You can set up a four-digit PIN, for example. If you are working at home or in an office where you trust everybody, the PIN is fine. You can change this in the security settings. You can put out a more secure password. I am not going to cover that right now, but just go ahead and give it a four-digit PIN. If you want to add letters and numbers, you can. Now, these are different privacy settings that come up next. You can turn them off. You do not have to agree to these ones. I do not really have a problem with any of them, but read these over and if you want to turn any of them off, you can. Online speech recognition: what this means is, instead of putting all the code in Windows on your computer to process speech, they just simply record a little audio clip, quickly transmit it up to their servers, process it because they have got the multi-million dollar mega computers that can do all that processing really fast, and then send back what the text is to your computer. It makes speech recognition a lot better. Like all the big players, Google, Apple, they all do the same thing. So yes, Microsoft sends your speech. If you do not want your speech clip being transmitted, then turn that off. Find my device means that you can use Windows to locate your device. I have lost my phone a few times. Typing data: this just sends anonymous typing data to them for analysis. It is basically to improve the language recognition and suggestion capabilities of apps. Location: this lets the computer know where you are for things like directions and weather. It improves your location services. If you are paranoid about them knowing where you are, you do not want that microchip from Bill Gates in your cereal box, whatever. Diagnostic data: about your software, about your machine. Tailored experiences: this is where you get personalized ads and tips and stuff like that. Based on when you web browse, they track where you go. Of course, any server you go through can see what you are doing. If you search for flowers, then you will start seeing ads for flowers. Everyone is like, oh, that is so creepy. Personally, I kind of like it. Because if you turn that off, you just see random generic ads. I could see stuff that is absolutely in no way of interest to me. I could see random ads for purchasing green school buses. But this way with targeted ads, at least I am being shown things that I am kind of interested in, like Star Trek and stuff like that. I will see ads for that kind of stuff. I do not mind personalized ads. Next is customize device. If you tell Windows how you are planning on using this machine, it will set things up slightly differently and give you some other apps and other options based on your usage. If you are playing games versus if you are using it as a business computer or entertainment, that kind of stuff. I am going to skip this for now. I am going to click skip on the bottom. I just want a plain Jane regular Windows install because all this stuff is already in the computer; it just gets set up slightly differently. Do you want your activity history to be tracked across devices? In other words, the things that you do, your activity history, pages you browse, that kind of stuff, will get stored in your online account and you will see that in your history if you go to a different machine. I have three machines in my office here. If I browse for stuff on one, even with Google, they are all linked via my account, so I will start seeing stuff in my browser history on the other machine that I visited on the first one, for example. If you do not want that, then say no. This is not a big deal for me. I say yes to this one. This next one is an option if you have an Android phone or even an iPhone. You can sync up your text, your notifications, and stuff between your PC and your phone. This is kind of handy, but I have an Android and the Google stuff that I use does most of this for me anyway. I really do not feel like setting this up now, so I am just going to click on do it later. Next comes OneDrive. OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud storage. Everyone gets some space for free with your Microsoft account. Personally, I use Google Drive. Now, I love Microsoft. I have been using Microsoft since day one, but Google Drive has been around a little longer and I started using that first, so all my stuff was there. When OneDrive came out, I already had Google Drive. Now this is all integrated with Office. Sometimes I use both, but I pretty much stick to Google Drive. I am a Microsoft guy. I love Excel. I love Word. Access, of course, is my life. But I still use Google Drive for stuff like that. I am going to click on only save files to this PC down here. If you use OneDrive, go ahead and hit next and set up your OneDrive account and sync it up. Next is Microsoft 365, which used to be called Office 365. It is their subscription-based version of Microsoft Office. Ninety-nine bucks a year, which is cheap. You do not have to buy the retail versions where you have to lay out two to three hundred dollars every couple of years. Microsoft wants you to be on a subscription. I think it is a good idea too, especially if you are in business. If you are just using this stuff at home, first of all, there is a free version of Word Online and a free version of Excel Online; you can use those without buying Microsoft Office. If you are a business or a business owner like I am and you are using Microsoft Office, get the subscription. Do not go through setting up a new version of Excel every time Office 2013 comes out, 2016, 2019 comes out. Just get the subscription. They constantly are making little updates. They push them to you. Your software is always up to date, always bug free. Well, usually bug free. I usually wait a little while until those updates come out. If it says, hey, there is an update, do you want to install, I usually say no. I usually wait a couple of days at least, so someone else finds the major problems. But that is how it is with any software. You could install a patch for Microsoft Office 2013 on your old machine and it used to have bugs too. If you do not have Microsoft 365 yet, you can go ahead and set up a free trial. What is it, a month? I think they give you a month. Then you can pay for it after that if you do not like it. It is already installed on most Windows PCs like this one. I am going to have to actually uninstall it because I have a Microsoft 365 account; I am going to install the software from the website. I do not want the free trial stuff. It is on the hardware already. We will cover that in a little bit. For now, I am going to say no thanks. Next up is Cortana, which is Microsoft's version of Siri, Alexa, whatever the other ones are. It does the same stuff. It is a virtual voice assistant. You can do some setup and set up some personal stuff and it will work better with your contacts and your voice input and your handwriting patterns and all that stuff. That is great. Spend some time and do it if you really want to. I am not going to do it right now. I just want to get to Windows. I am going to click on that now. Again, I am going to cover all this stuff in my future Windows classes. Today's job is a quick setup. This next bit of information goes to your device manufacturer, in my case, Lenovo. It is basically like registering your equipment. It is never a bad idea. Go make that second cup of coffee. Of course, go to the restroom and get rid of the first cup of coffee, and Windows is doing some stuff. It might take several minutes depending on the speed of your computer. Do not turn off your PC. Long story short, I had a customer once that was in the middle of going through a Windows setup like this and the power went out. It was a desktop PC and not a laptop, so the power went off and that drive was messed up. I had to completely reformat it and reinstall Windows. Do not turn the PC off during this. Next up is Microsoft Edge. If you have been using Windows for any time, you are probably familiar with Internet Explorer. That is their old school browser. It has been around for decades. Microsoft Edge is their new one, completely rebuilt from the ground up. It is fast. It is pretty. I like it. It is a great browser. Problem is, I am already entrenched with Google Chrome. It has been my browser now for about, I do not know, maybe 10 years. Back when Internet Explorer was like the funny kid in the playground that I wanted to make fun of, Google Chrome was the hip new thing. Now Google Chrome has the big install base and everyone uses it. I have got it all customized and configured, but I do use Edge too. I use Chrome for myself most of the time, but I will use Edge when I am working on my website or if I want to see how another user will see it. I will open it up as someone who is not logged on, for example. It is fast; it is great. I love Edge. I have been spending my time between the two of them. But I do still personally like to use Chrome as my default browser of choice. They just want you to set up how you want Edge to look. There is inspirational, informational, and focused. I think I want it with focused. Focused is a very simple, white, almost Google-looking type setup for the browser. Next it says, your favorites, passwords, and history are going to be saved on your account instead of just this device. We talked about this before. If you are using Edge on multiple machines, you will have all the same stuff: your passwords, your history, your favorites bar, all that stuff. Same thing again, make Microsoft's experiences more useful. Basically, it is so they can send you targeted advertising. I would rather see ads for things that I am kind of interested in than stuff that I have no interest in whatsoever. There you go. There is the Edge welcome screen. Close that down and I am finally in Windows and at the Windows desktop. After all those prompts, next up, I am going to install Google Chrome. That is my browser of choice and it has got a bunch of tools that I like to use. Go to google.com/chrome and then hit download Chrome. You will see this appear in the bottom left corner, ChromeSetup.exe, click on open file. Once you do this, you will see this warning pop-up that says for security and performance, Windows 10 in S mode runs Microsoft verified apps. What is S mode? S mode is basically a safety mode that only allows apps that Microsoft has deemed are safe and secure to be installed from the Microsoft Store, like their app store. If you want to run anything that is not verified, you have to switch out of S mode. Once you do that, you cannot go back into S mode. That is how organizations can keep their users safe. They do not have to worry about them getting viruses, usually. They can also prevent people from taking computers home, getting junk on them, bringing them back into the office, and then that spreads around the network. Once you switch out of S mode and install a non-Microsoft, non-verified app, you cannot go back into it. If you are like me and you know a little about computers, if you are one of my Access students, for example, do not worry about it. But if you are on a work computer, check with them first before you turn S mode off. Once it is off, that is it. You have to reinstall Windows to get it back. I do not use it myself; I do not need it. So I am going to click on switch out of S mode. They will warn you again. Are you sure you want to switch out of S mode? Do you want to think twice about it? Double check. Make sure. Click get. Get is kind of a confusing button. I do not know why it says get. It should just be okay. I guess get means get the app that you are trying to get. It is a weird prompt. Then you will see, okay, you are all set. You have switched out of S mode and can now install apps from outside the store. Thanks. Now I can put what I really want on my computer without having to go through them. Perfect. Now that we are out of S mode, Lenovo is recommending that I install McAfee Live Safe. No, do not click on install protection and do not ask again. You do not need it. Windows comes with Windows Defender. It is basic, but it is simple and it is all you need. As long as you are not downloading junk from other websites and running programs and installing stuff that you do not know what it is, Windows is pretty good now at protecting you from viruses without bloatware (bloated extra software) like McAfee. I think Symantec used to make one a few years ago. I hate all those third-party antivirus apps. Do not install them. They are junk. You do not need them. This part was a little confusing because it has been a few years since I have installed Chrome on a Windows 10 machine. Even on their thing it says, open the store. You have to switch out of S mode. Click the get button and install the switch out of S mode. I guess that is a separate app. I am not exactly sure how they do that. Then you have to run the installer. The easiest thing to do is just download Chrome again. It is going to install; it is a tiny installer file. Just hit download Chrome again. There, and I will see it down there, ChromeSetup1 this time, just open that up. Now you will be able to run it because you are not in S mode. Soon as you click on that, this little guy pops up, the user account control, Windows security. It is saying, do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device? It is going to install some software. Be careful. Make sure that you understand that this is going to install software, so if you see this and you are not expecting it, like if you click on something when you are browsing and this pops up, do not say yes. This is the Google update software, so we know it is good from Google LLC. I trust them. So you can click on yes for this. It does not take too long to download. It will verify the installer. I think the installing portion of it took longer than the download. Then Chrome starts up. You get welcome to Chrome. Set up the browser in a few simple steps, make Chrome your own. If you have a Google account already, which if you found my videos, you probably found me on YouTube, which means you probably have a Google account. I am betting most of you do. Go ahead and sign in with your Google account. You can hit the "already a Chrome user" sign in. If not, hit get started; you can set up an account. I am going to sign in to my existing account. You have probably seen this thing a million times if you are a Google user. Sign in using your Google account. Email address, and of course your password. You are not getting my password. Use your password. Do not remember your password? Do not ask me; I do not know your password. Use the "forgot password" option. If you are an Android user like me, as soon as you try to log on to an unrecognized device with your Google account, this will pop up on your phone. I screenshotted this off my phone, my Android phone. It says, is this you trying to sign in? Say yes or no, of course. This is if you have two-factor authentication on, which I think is the default now. I strongly recommend it. This prevents someone from trying to guess your password because you have to have your phone in order to sign in on a device that you have not previously allowed. If you do not know what two-factor authentication is, if enough people want to see it, let me know. Post a comment and I will make a video. That is the screen that pops up on the laptop while you are waiting for your phone. It popped it up on both my phone and my tablet, waiting for me to click yes on one of those. Next, it is asking if you want to turn sync on. One thing is with Edge, where it saves your passwords, your history, your bookmarks and all that stuff. Just hit yes, I am in. There we go. This is Chrome with the standard Google homepage. Notice there is my bookmarks bar that I have got customized. That is on all of my machines, including my phone, my tablet, my three laptops. They have all pop up the same list of bookmarks that I keep. That is how you install Chrome. Pretty straightforward. Pretty soon, Google Chrome is going to pop this guy up in your toolbars across the top. Chrome is not your default browser. That is the browser wars. Edge wants to be the default. Chrome wants to be the default. Pick which one you want to use. Set as default. I like to use Chrome as my default. I will still use Edge from time to time though. Next, we are installing Chrome Remote Desktop. I use this so that I can screen share in my office so I can record videos for my lessons like this on a different computer that might have a different setup or different software. Part of the reason why I am doing this is because I need to get Access 64-bit. In my office computers, I still use 32-bit for lots of reasons. I will talk about it later. You can also use this to give help to someone. You can share your screen so that if someone else is having problems and they are in a different state or country, you can say, go to Remote Desktop, share your screen. There is lots of software out there now that does it, Skype does it, there are a bunch of others, this just happens to be the one that I prefer. So I am going to come down here and click on share my screen. Once I get this installed, I will not have to be in PowerPoint slides with these little pictures from my phone anymore. So, share this screen to let someone else access and control this computer. Click on the download button right there. That is the download button. Give that guy a click. This is actually installed as an extension to Chrome. That is why it says add to Chrome. It is not a separate program. It is like a plug-in for the browser. So, click on add to Chrome. You are basically getting another "are you sure" window. Click add extension. More terms of service, privacy policies, etc., accept and install. Open download, allow Chrome Remote Desktop to open this file. Say yes. User account control pops up one more time. Make sure the verified publisher is Google LLC. There is a lot of prompts, but I think I would rather have to say yes more times than having too few prompts and get stuff installed that we do not want. So deal with it. Once it is installed, you will see a share this screen option. There are a couple of different ways you can configure this. I am just going to show you the simple way, which is sharing the screen with a code. You can set it up so you can actually access the computer, like leave it set up at the office so when you go home, you can log on from your home workstation. That is a whole different ball game. If enough people want to see that, let me know. I will set up a separate video on that one. This is just a simple screen sharing where you are right next to the other machine, or you can tell the person on the phone, "Type in this code." It expires in five minutes, so you have to type it in relatively fast. Type that code in on your side. You are going to run the same setup on your side, but instead of sharing your screen, you are going to go connect to someone else's machine. Type in the code they give you and then you will connect. This is the prompt you get on the other computer when you are trying to connect. You type in the code that the other person gives you. Once you connect, the other person on the receiving computer will get this message saying that you are trying to connect to them. They have to hit share for it to work. I usually have to call on the phone and have someone do it. They will go up there and hit the enter key. Now that I am actually connected through the Chrome Remote Desktop, I get this little guy who says your desktop is currently shared. Now I am on my actual other PC that I do my recording on and I am connected to that remote laptop over my network, which is actually going over the internet. This is kind of annoying here, this little thing, so I am just going to slide it off to the side so we do not have to look at it, but it is over there. The next thing I am going to do is clean up my task bar down here at the bottom. There is some stuff down here that I almost never use and it is a waste of space to have it sitting here. For example, the Microsoft Store. I almost never use it. Right click, unpin from taskbar. I did not uninstall it. It is still there, still on the computer. I just do not want to look at it down there at the bottom. This is all the stuff that I want to use on a regular basis or that is currently running. Mail, I do not like to use this, so goodbye. We are going to use Outlook or Gmail. The Lenovo thing, nope, see you. This is Alexa. I do use Alexa in my house, and she just lit up when I said that now. That is kind of creepy, but I am going to take it off of here. This thing, goodbye. Miracast, see you. Office we are going to use. We are going to install Office for sure. In fact, that is one of the reasons I bought this new laptop was because I am running Office 32-bit in my office, and that has been the Microsoft recommendation for the longest time. Only people with high end needs need 64-bit, but now, recently in 2021, the default install for Microsoft Office comes in 64-bit. So I am going to have to set it up on this machine because I am not switching over all my stuff just yet. I have a huge database that runs my business that is in 32-bit Access; I know it is going to take me a while to convert it over. The next thing I want to do is rename this computer. It has got some weird name right now. So, go to the start button. You can search for any setting that you want. Just go to settings. Find a setting. Just type in "name." I want to change the computer's name, so just type in name. View your PC name. There it is. You do not have to remember where things are like in the old days. Now just search for whatever you want to search for. This guy's name right now is LAPTOP-HP3-1, no. Right now I have two other machines on my network: server and workstation. Those two machines have been good for net forever. Usually, I like to use Star Trek names if I have more than that, like I will use Kirk, Picard, Spock, whatever. I have not done this in a couple of years because I have only had those two machines forever. But let's rename this PC right here. Rename. You can use a combination of letters. Let's call this guy Spock. It has been a while since I have had a Spock. Click OK. Smiley face: since I am using remote desktop software it would not let me type in those characters remotely. I had to actually go over to the keyboard on the other computer and type in Spock. But once I was done, now it said you can rename your computer. So I had to rename the computer to Spock and now I am going to restart. This computer came preloaded with Microsoft Office but it is the trial version and it is not going to work with what I have got, which is the Microsoft 365 full subscription. So I have read online where you can try to install over the top of it by just re-downloading it and reinstalling it, but the best thing to do is just simply remove it. So we are going to uninstall. Go to Add or Remove Programs. We are going to find Microsoft Office. Search this list, Office. There it is. Uninstall. I got the security warning pop up that does not show on the remote desktop software. Ready to uninstall, say yes. It will do its thing. This takes a few minutes. I know it seems kind of silly to have to uninstall it just to reinstall it again, but I have tried before on other computers where it has got the demo version of Office and you have got a full copy and want to install yours, and it just does not work. I have had problems with it and I did a quick Google search and people said you can try but it does not always work. The best thing to do whenever you want to replace software is just to uninstall the old version and install the new one. So I am going to let this go. Next it says we are done uninstalling. Successfully removed Office. It is not required but it is recommended that you reboot. I am going to reboot anyway just because there is some cleanup that it does on the restart. So I want to reboot and I will be right back. Before I do that, I am going to uninstall this installer. This is their Office installer app. We are going to get rid of this guy too. Uninstall. And that is gone too. Let's do a quick reboot. You should notice now that I do not see Access or Excel anymore. There is a whole bunch of other stuff I am probably going to end up removing. I will clue you in on what I do. But let's restart. Restart. Now that I have cleaned up the demo version of Office that came with the computer, let's go to office.com. One thing I am going to do real quick is pin Chrome down here, right click, pin to taskbar. That way it always stays right there. Come right up here. Yes, I have a custom toolbar here, which is my stuff. Do not worry about that. I will cover that in a different video, how to set that up. All the stuff I use on a regular basis is right here. Office.com. These browser wars, I am telling you. Each one, when you open up Chrome, tells you I am not the default. Switch me over to Edge. Microsoft is like, no, switch back. No thanks. I am good. Welcome to Office. You can sign in or get Office. Sign in with whatever your account is that you have your Office through because I have two different accounts. I have the one that I actually have my Microsoft Office through, which is this one here you see on the screen, then I have my other one which is my Microsoft/live.com account. It is different. I do not know how it got set up that way, but it did. You might have multiple logins, so make sure you use the right one that you have your Office subscription under. If you pass right in and if this is your computer, no one else uses it and you are confident that you do not have to worry about anyone else getting your stuff, you could stay signed in. Here I am on the office.com homepage. I am going to go over here to install Office, premium Office apps. The Office setup.exe downloads. We are going to open this up. Again, Windows security pops up and I have to go over to the other computer to do it. I cannot do it remotely. It says, please stay online while Office downloads. It is grabbing my stuff. That is the important one for me there: Access. You should see this when it is done: You are all set. Office is installed. Now click start to view your apps. Close this installer down and we can shut down Chrome for now. Let's go back to the start button. There is Access. Excel. Let's go to Excel. Good, good. Now, I got this message, which you might see because I am logged on to Windows as [email protected], that other account that I showed you, but that is the one that I have got for my Office account. So I am going to click here and say use a different account. Sign in. It is this one. All these different accounts and passwords, so hard to keep track of. Password as always. Now, this is just saying allow my organization to manage my device. In other words, the organization, meaning my company, amacron account for Office 365. I am giving permission, which is me, to manage this device. Fine. Registering it with the company and applying the policy. All set. Successful. Good. Done. I am pretty sure the rule is with any Microsoft 365 account you get three or five devices that you can install it on. This will be my third. I just checked: it was five. Accept. Now, I am going to take a step back to the installation screen here. If you want to change any options in your Microsoft Office install, go to other install options here. For example, it would have answered my question I had a few minutes ago: Five PCs, tablets, or smartphones. I am going to click on view apps and devices. Now here is where you can change your bit version of Microsoft Office. Right down here, you can drop this down under Office. You can see all the installs that you currently have of your Microsoft Office. I have got server (Spock is the one I just set up), and then workstation is the one I am actually on. I still have Windows 8 on it, but if it is not broke, do not fix it. It still works. It is the one I do all my recording on, and that is part of the reason why I still have 32-bit Office on this one, but I want to install 64-bit on this machine, Spock. So, I am going to hit install. Make sure you pick this. You can also change your language over here if you want to. I am going to pick the 64-bit version and hit install Office. A different installer comes in, hit keep. Then click on it. The Windows security thing pops up. Say OK. Now it is installing Office again. The reason why I say this is because, like a dummy, I just installed 32-bit Office on the machine that I wanted to put 64-bit on. So, I did not record all of this to show you, but I uninstalled everything I just installed because when I went to check it, it was 32-bit. Give it another second, let 64-bit finish installing. And we are back. 64-bit Office is installed. How do I know? Start, run any of the apps, Access is fine, Excel, whichever one you run, they are all the same. Go to Account, Subscription Product, Microsoft 365. Go to About Access or About Excel or whatever, and then right there, 64-bit. So now I am all set. Now I can start fixing some of the database problems that my Office 32-bit has been causing because a lot of my students now are running 64-bit Office and saying, "What is the problem here? My code is not working." I just got an email from someone today: "I have been running this database that I got from you, that I built with one of your classes years ago. It started running fine. They just upgraded their whole company to Office 365 and now the database is not working." I have not had 64-bit in my office for the longest time because it has not been necessary; 32-bit is fine for most people. I have a whole article about it on my website. I will put a link down below. You can go read it if you want to. Next thing I want to install is Google Drive. Google Drive is basically another one of those cloud sharing services. They were one of the first and that is why I have been using it forever, before Microsoft OneDrive. I like Google Drive because you can access your files on any machine that you have or your phone or whatever, which all of the services do now. Google Drive comes with an ISO app that you install on your computer and it synchronizes whatever folders you want on your desktop with your cloud drive. So I can have my documents, spreadsheets, the databases that I work on all in my Google Drive folder and they will get copied around from PC to PC and will be on my cloud as well. If I want a Word document or a PDF that I have or a picture, it is all there. It is all synchronized on multiple computers and the synchronization thing is good because if any one of those drives die, it acts like a backup; your files are distributed among all your computers. Now, giant files: if you have got a database that is two gigabytes, do not do that. That is too big, but for small stuff it is great. I am going to make a separate class, a separate video on how to use Google Drive to back up your Access stuff. You do not want to have big Access databases sitting in your Google Drive backup folder because every time it changes, you change one record in a table and the Google Drive software tries to back up the whole thing. That is bad. But you can make a nightly event, or every couple of hours or whatever, where your database gets copied to the Google Drive folder and then it gets backed up. So the actual one that you are working on is not being changed. But let's install Google Drive. Let's go back to Chrome. This is still up from the last thing; let's close that down. Here is my Google Drive button right there. Just go to drive.google.com. Here is the basic drive interface. The Google Drive interface. You can create stuff right in here. You can create Google Docs and Sheets. Sheets is like Excel. Docs is like Word. Good for most things. Microsoft Office is still the standard, but for simple stuff and it is free, you cannot beat it. Settings: Get Drive for desktop. Scroll down here a bit. This is what I am looking for. It is backup and sync. Back up all your content to the cloud, easily access your files in Google Drive and your photos. Hit download here. Agree. We are going to keep that and then install it. Windows security should pop up here in a second. There it is. It is doing its thing. Install is complete. We can close that. Actually, I have to close it on the other machine. All your files, your fingertips, etc. Get started. I have to sign in. Enter your password. The two-step verification thing pops up on my Android phone. I say yes, that is me. There it goes. Now it is going to say choose folders from your computer to continuously back up to Google Drive. Whatever files you modify in these folders will be saved up in the Google Drive. Click got it. Desktop, documents, pictures; that is fine. You can pick subfolders and change things. Photo and video size: I go high quality. Full quality saves it in full resolution. High quality reduces the resolution a bit, but it is reduced file size and a lot of it is free. They are changing their policy. They used to let photo uploads and video uploads be absolutely free. They did not count against your quota, because you get so much space. By the way, I pay extra, I think it is 10 bucks a month. It is either 10 or 20 bucks a month. Either way, it is worth it. I get two terabytes of data from Google Drive and it is well worth it because two terabytes is a lot of stuff. You do not have to worry about running out of hard drive space. High quality reduces your file size. Even at the lower resolution, they are still really good. Unless you are a professional photographer, you do not need to worry about saving original quality. It is still HD. Any photos you have are going to go to Google Photos instead of your drive. If you turn that off, then they will go into your photo folder in your drive. Next. Now the next step is what stuff that is up on the Google Drive in your cloud do you want to pull down to this machine? This is my training machine, so I do not need all that stuff on this computer. This is going to take up space. I have got 200 gigabytes worth of stuff up there. Some of it is just temporary files. Some of it is videos that I am recording that I do not need to save. I do not need that pulled down to this machine too. I am going to click on sync only these folders. This one here is not sync; it is 184 gigabytes worth of junk. I do not need that one synced up here. I do not even know what is in my Alexa folder. My backup folder: I do not need that. Courses, documents, ebook purchases: I do not need all of this stuff. I will turn that off. Financial stuff, maybe goldmember downloads, that is gone now. Go down and pick the stuff that you want on this computer because you can sync different stuff with your different computers. My server has all of it. My other workstation machine has most of it. This training PC, I probably do not even need most of this stuff here. I think I am going to turn most of this off. Just so I have something for class, I left on documents, which is where I store my Word docs, presentations for my PowerPoint stuff, and spreadsheets for my Excel stuff. The rest of this stuff I do not need on this computer. Start. Installation complete. There we go. Here is the message I was telling you about: June 1, 2021. New uploads to Google Photos will count toward your account storage. Google used to give away the space for free, but not anymore. First thing is you are going to get a Google Drive folder here on your desktop. I will leave that there. I am going to clean some of this stuff up because Docs, Sheets, and Slides are still on the system; they are still on the Start menu. This Chrome Remote Desktop, I am going to leave it down here in the taskbar. Let's make sure it is pinned. Pin to taskbar, but I do not need you on the desktop. I like to keep a clean desktop. Microsoft Edge is pinned; do not need you there. Chrome is pinned. Google Drive: I like to keep Google Drive here. I work out of Google Drive all day long, so I like to have it wherever I can get to it. You can get to it from the Explorer window. If you open this up, you will see the little icon means it is syncing. Right down there, notice how that is moving. It is preparing. Click on that. Sometimes it does not do anything. Right click, let it do its thing. It is preparing. As soon as Google Drive is done preparing, the preparing could take a while the first time you run it, but it usually does not take this long. Click on this little icon and you will see what is going on. It will show if something is copying. You can see I have some old files I was copying. You can stop it. You can pause it. I am going to do a whole separate lesson on the Google Backup and Sync. For now, just know that it is running. If I open up my local Google Drive folder, you will see this temp folder pop up from time to time. You can delete it if you want to. It is one of the things Google uses to sync. Sometimes you cannot delete it; sometimes it drops it there. There we go: it grabbed everything in my Google Drive folder, which includes some Google Sheets, this how to publish on Amazon PDF file, some other shortcuts to different folders on my website, for example. Those are the three folders that I told it to grab. These are synced from my cloud now, so anything that I put in this folder or subfolders will get saved up to my Google Drive. That is Google Drive. It is a great tool. I love using it. Like I said, I have more lessons coming on that, especially with how to use it to back up Access. One last thing I want to talk about as far as setting up a computer goes: Windows Security and Windows Update. Windows Update is something that is going to run on a regular basis. It will install any patches, bug fixes, security updates. You want to let these run. You can see right here, I have not done it yet because it is a brand new machine, so you get this little warning. If you do not see that little warning, you can go to your search bar, type in Update or Windows Update. Windows Update settings. Here is Windows Update. Device is missing important security fixes because I have not updated it since I just bought it. There is a bunch of stuff you can see here that needs to be updated. You can come down here, you can schedule the restart if you want to schedule it at a particular time, you can do the restart now. You can pause updates if you do not want to be bothered for a while, but you really should install these as soon as you can. When you are leaving for the day, go in here, hit install updates, and let it do its thing. Again, I will cover Windows Update in a lot more detail in my full classes, but for now, just keep in mind that you should be doing it. A lot of people are like, I am not installing any updates. I do not want to break anything. Have they broken stuff with updates before? Yes, that has happened, but trust me, the stuff they break is usually minor compared to what can be broken if you do not install the updates. While we are in here, let's take a look at Windows Security. You might have seen a screen earlier that said I needed updated virus protection. That is because Windows Defender comes with Windows and it is good enough, it is all you need. Virus and threats: no action needed. It ran a scan in the background. That is today. I will say it is a minute scan; there is not much on here. But this will also automatically update itself. Let it. You do not need to worry about it. Just let it do its thing. If you download a file from the internet, when it goes to your downloads folder, it should be scanned automatically. You can come in here and run a manual scan if you want to. Back in the old days we always had to manually scan stuff. Nowadays, do not worry about it. Just be careful with what you download. Download stuff from trusted, reputable sources. I am going to do a whole separate lesson on downloading stuff. I did one way back like 2002 or 2003, but the internet has changed so much since then. A lot of what we used to have to do, we do not have to do anymore. I just wanted to point out where this was. You do not need McAfee or any of that other stuff. That is pretty much everything, folks. Thank you for watching. I hope you learned something today. I hope this was helpful to someone. I am going to be updating my full Windows courses for Windows 10. I am going to be covering all the basics. I am going to cover more advanced stuff that I have not covered before, including networking and things like that. Here is the deal: for everyone that watched this entire video, because you got this far, I am going to give a free copy of Windows Level 1 too. Obviously, it is going on YouTube and my website for free for everybody, but I am also going to give you, since you watched this video, a free copy of Windows Level 2 as well, as soon as it comes out. So, you will find a link down below in the links section in the description below the video that says, sign up for free Windows 10 Beginner 1 and 2. That is for you for watching this video. Just sign up, no charge at all for this. It is a free offer. Windows Beginner 1: when it comes out, you will see it. It will be everywhere on YouTube and on my channel. Then when Level 2 comes out, I am going to send you an email and say, here is your free copy of Level 2. Again, I hope you learned something and I hope you enjoyed. Feel free to check out my site, my channel, and drop some comments. Let me know. Thanks for watching. QuizQ1. What is the main focus of this tutorial video?A. Unboxing and setting up a new Windows computer from scratch B. Advanced Microsoft Access programming C. Using Microsoft Word templates D. Troubleshooting network issues Q2. What is S mode in Windows 10? A. A mode for faster gaming performance B. A security mode only allowing installation of Microsoft Store-approved apps C. A setting to enable dark mode in Windows D. A power-saving feature for laptops Q3. If you want to install apps not available in the Microsoft Store, what must you do? A. Enable airplane mode B. Enter Safe Mode C. Switch out of S mode D. Update your BIOS Q4. Which browsers does the instructor mention using, and which one does he prefer? A. Firefox only; prefers Firefox B. Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge; prefers Edge C. Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome; prefers Chrome D. Opera and Safari; prefers Opera Q5. What should you do with the trial version of Microsoft Office that comes preinstalled on your computer before installing your own copy? A. Leave it and install your version over it B. Uninstall it first C. Ignore it, it does not matter D. Update it to the latest version Q6. What does Chrome Remote Desktop allow you to do? A. Play games remotely B. Control another computer over the internet C. Increase your computer's speed D. Block remote access Q7. How can you change your computer's name in Windows 10? A. Edit the name in the BIOS menu B. Use the command prompt only C. Go to settings and search for "name" to rename your PC D. Reinstall Windows Q8. What benefit does Google Drive (with backup and sync) provide? A. Automatically updates Windows drivers B. Backs up files from your hard drive to your Google Drive cloud storage C. Increases your battery life D. Reduces hard drive space usage Q9. When setting up a new Windows PC, what is now typically required? A. Complex manual configuration B. Answering a few simple setup questions C. Installing Windows from scratch D. Editing system files manually Q10. Why should you not install additional antivirus software like McAfee on Windows 10? A. It will make the system incompatible with Office B. Windows Defender is sufficient and extra antivirus software is unnecessary C. Antivirus software is illegal D. Microsoft no longer allows third-party applications Q11. What happens when you enable synchronization in browsers like Edge or Chrome? A. Your settings and passwords are shared across all your devices B. Your computer speed slows down C. Only bookmarks are synced, not passwords D. It deletes your browsing history Q12. If you have multiple Microsoft accounts, what should you ensure when installing Office 365? A. Use any account, it does not matter B. Use the same account that your Office 365 subscription is under C. You must merge accounts first D. Install on a different PC Q13. What is a common reason to use 64-bit Office instead of 32-bit Office? A. It is required for larger or more advanced Access databases B. 64-bit Office is free C. 32-bit Office is no longer supported D. 32-bit Office cannot open spreadsheets Q14. Why is it important to regularly run Windows Update? A. It increases your hard disk size B. It provides security updates and bug fixes C. It reduces internet speed D. It installs more trial software Q15. How does the instructor suggest managing which folders are synced with Google Drive on a training PC? A. Sync every folder by default B. Sync only selected folders you want on that particular computer C. Only sync images and videos D. Disable syncing entirely Q16. What is Windows Defender? A. A game engine in Windows B. Built-in antivirus/anti-malware protection in Windows C. A video editor D. A file backup app Q17. When setting up privacy settings in Windows, what can you control? A. Which apps run on startup only B. Whether things like online speech recognition, location services, and tailored ads are enabled C. Battery optimization only D. The size of your hard drive Q18. What should you do if prompted by User Account Control before installing new software? A. Always click yes without checking anything B. Ensure you know what you are installing and trust the source before allowing changes C. Ignore the warning D. Immediately restart the computer Q19. What is the recommended action after uninstalling Microsoft Office before installing a new version? A. Update Windows only B. Reboot the computer C. Run disk cleanup D. Uninstall all other software Q20. If you do not have a Microsoft Account when setting up Windows for the first time, what can you do? A. You cannot proceed with setup B. Create a new account online or from the setup screen C. Skip login entirely and never use the computer D. Use a Google account instead Q21. What is the purpose of the "Find my device" feature? A. To track the physical location of your PC in case it gets lost B. To locate misplaced files C. To improve download speed D. To view all devices on your Wi-Fi network Q22. What is the advantage of a subscription-based Office 365 versus purchasing retail licenses? A. It is much more expensive in the long run B. You have to update it manually C. Software is frequently updated and always up-to-date with less upfront cost D. It stops working every year Q23. What option should you select if you do not want Microsoft to track your activity history across devices? A. Accept all settings B. Turn off activity history tracking when prompted C. Set a shorter PIN D. Remove all user accounts Q24. Where can you check for and run Windows Updates? A. In the Control Panel under Devices B. In Settings, searching for "Update" or "Windows Update" C. Only using Command Prompt D. Inside Microsoft Edge Q25. After installing Google Drive for desktop, what is created on your computer? A. An additional Recycle Bin B. A Google Drive folder that syncs with your cloud account C. A new system partition D. A hidden user profile Answers: 1-A; 2-B; 3-C; 4-C; 5-B; 6-B; 7-C; 8-B; 9-B; 10-B; 11-A; 12-B; 13-A; 14-B; 15-B; 16-B; 17-B; 18-B; 19-B; 20-B; 21-A; 22-C; 23-B; 24-B; 25-B DISCLAIMER: Quiz questions are AI generated. If you find any that are wrong, don't make sense, or aren't related to the video topic at hand, then please post a comment and let me know. Thanks. SummaryToday's video from Windows Learning Zone focuses on unboxing and setting up a brand new Windows laptop from start to finish. My name is Richard Rost, and I'll be your instructor as I walk through the entire process, sharing the steps I take and the choices I prefer when preparing a fresh computer for use.It has been quite a while since I last released a Windows tutorial. My recent efforts have mostly involved Access and Excel, but today I needed a new laptop to record upcoming videos. I thought this would be a great chance to document the setup process, from opening the box to configuring Windows with the apps and settings I like. Typically, my beginner Windows classes begin after Windows has already been set up. This time, I'm explaining every step, assuming nothing has been pre-configured. In this tutorial, you will see the initial Windows setup, the configuration options I stick with, and the software I immediately add or remove. The setup process begins by walking through questions, as most new computers already have Windows installed. These days, setting up a new machine is a straightforward series of questions and preferences. The initial steps include selecting your location, keyboard layout, and connecting to Wi-Fi. Microsoft now allows use of a digital assistant called Cortana during setup, which offers voice assistance similar to Siri or Alexa. If you're setting up a local account without internet access, you can do that, but today almost everyone connects during this process. I plan to create a separate lesson for those without internet, but today, the focus is on the standard online setup. As setup continues, you'll encounter privacy choices regarding data gathering, speech recognition, location, personalized ads, and usage data. I usually review these and turn off anything I'm not comfortable sharing, but I explain the implications of each option so you can make the right choice for yourself. Once past the privacy screens, Microsoft will prompt you to customize your device based on how you plan to use it. I generally stick to a basic setup, skipping any unnecessary preloaded suggestions. There's also an option to track activity history across devices. I personally enable this because it helps keep my workflow smooth across multiple machines, but it can be disabled if you prefer more privacy. Syncing your phone with your PC is an option as well, for text messages and notifications. I have found that the built-in syncing for Android via Google covers my needs, so I usually skip Microsoft's solution. Next comes OneDrive, Microsoft's cloud storage. Although I appreciate its integration, I primarily use Google Drive since my data was already there when OneDrive came out. You're free to set up OneDrive if you prefer, but I stick with local files on the PC. The setup process introduces Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Microsoft's subscription-based version of Office. It auto-installs a trial version, but since I have a subscription, I remove the trial and replace it with a clean, full installation. If you're using Office primarily for business or professional work, I strongly recommend the subscription for access to regular updates and cost savings over time. Cortana is available to set up at this point, but I skip its detailed installation, reserving that for a future lesson. Registering your laptop with the manufacturer is suggested, along with a final waiting period while Windows completes its install. It's important not to power off your machine during this time. I've seen systems corrupted by abrupt shutdowns during setup, so let it finish uninterrupted. Once Windows installation wraps up, Microsoft's browser Edge opens. While Edge is significantly better than its predecessor, Internet Explorer, I prefer Google Chrome for my daily use. I outline how to install Chrome and, importantly, discuss the new Windows S mode. S mode restricts installations to apps from the Microsoft Store for enhanced security, but I show how to exit S mode when you need more flexibility. Be aware: once you switch out of S mode, you cannot return without reinstalling Windows. Occasionally, you'll see recommendations for third-party antivirus programs like McAfee. My advice is to stick with the built-in Windows Defender unless you have a specific need for extra security software, as Defender is perfectly adequate for most users nowadays. After downloading and installing Google Chrome, I demonstrate signing in with a Google account, turning on sync so bookmarks and history are consistent across devices, and setting Chrome as the default browser if desired. I also address extra security measures, such as two-factor authentication, which I recommend enabling. Another key step is setting up Chrome Remote Desktop. This tool allows me to control the new laptop from my primary machine, a convenience for both recording tutorials and gaining access to the laptop's screen from anywhere. Chrome Remote Desktop is easy to install as an extension and provides quick remote access or screen sharing using access codes. With the essentials in place, I take a moment to clean up the taskbar, removing unnecessary shortcuts like the Microsoft Store, Mail, or other default apps I don't use regularly. I customize the taskbar to feature only what I need. Renaming the computer is another task I tackle, opting for recognizable names that integrate well into my network. I tend to use Star Trek character names, but you can choose any label you like. This is easy to accomplish by searching for the PC name setting and applying your new name. After customizing the system's name, I remove the preinstalled trial version of Office, fully uninstalling it before downloading and installing Microsoft 365 from the official website. If, like me, you have multiple Microsoft accounts (one for Windows, another for Office), you'll need to ensure you're signing in with the correct one for your subscription. After installing Office, I confirm my preference for the 64-bit version, since modern Access databases and larger projects increasingly require it. The process for checking your current Office installation's bit version is straightforward using the About menu in one of the Office apps. Following that, I add Google Drive for desktop. In the setup, I select which folders from my computer to back up continuously to Google Drive and decide which folders from my cloud need to be synced down. For this demonstration, I choose only essential folders like Documents, Presentations, and Spreadsheets to keep storage and bandwidth manageable. I also offer tips about ongoing backups and how to avoid bogging down the system by syncing very large files, especially with Access databases. Google Drive provides an easily accessible folder on the desktop and integrates right into Windows Explorer. Once configured, any file saved here is synced to the cloud and other devices, which is a helpful layer of backup in addition to convenience. To wrap up, I stress the importance of running Windows Update promptly after setup to install security patches and bug fixes. I briefly outline update scheduling, pausing, and the process for running updates. Routine Windows updates are necessary for ongoing security–even if some reservations remain about the occasional glitches that can occur. For security, Windows Defender is now strong enough that most users do not need an added antivirus product. The built-in Windows Security automatically updates and provides routine virus scanning. Manual scans are still possible, but Defender's real-time protection makes this mostly unnecessary unless you're handling files from questionable sources. This covers the basic setup and customization tasks I recommend for a new Windows laptop. Soon I'll be updating my full Windows classes for Windows 10, including both beginner and more advanced content. As a thank you for following along, I'm offering free access to Windows Level 1 and, when available, Level 2. You can find sign-up details on my website. For a complete video tutorial with step-by-step instructions on everything covered here, visit my website at the link below. Live long and prosper, my friends. Topic ListUnboxing a new Windows laptopInitial Windows 10 setup process Choosing region and keyboard layout Connecting to Wi-Fi and the Internet Understanding the Windows License Agreement Signing in with a Microsoft account Setting up a Windows PIN Configuring Windows privacy settings Enabling or disabling online speech recognition Setting up device location and find my device Choosing diagnostic and tailored experience options Customizing device usage options Managing Windows activity history syncing Integrating phone notifications with Windows OneDrive setup options Overview of Microsoft 365 (Office 365) installation choices Choosing to skip Microsoft 365 trial and install full version Configuring Windows digital assistant Cortana Registering device with manufacturer Setting up and configuring Microsoft Edge browser Installing Google Chrome browser Switching out of Windows 10 S mode Understanding Windows S mode and security Dealing with third-party antivirus offers Running Chrome installer and handling user account control Signing into Google account and enabling Chrome sync Setting Chrome as the default web browser Installing Chrome Remote Desktop extension Configuring Chrome Remote Desktop for screen sharing Using screen codes to connect two computers Cleaning up the Windows taskbar Renaming the Windows computer Uninstalling trial version of Microsoft Office Installing Microsoft 365 from Office.com Selecting 64-bit vs 32-bit Office installation Managing multiple Microsoft accounts for Office Pinning apps to the Windows taskbar Verifying Office installation and version Installing Google Drive for desktop Configuring Google Drive sync and backup settings Selecting folders to sync in Google Drive Managing large files and sync settings Verifying Google Drive sync status and files Cleaning up desktop and taskbar shortcuts Running and understanding Windows Update Configuring Windows Security with Windows Defender Performing virus scans with Windows Security General Windows maintenance advice |
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