You may recollect of Windows 10 every bit a set of useful accessories, such as games, music players, and a paint programme for playing around with images, but Windows 10 is first an operating system. Windows 10'southward main purpose is to enable you lot to run and manage other software programs, from programs that manage your finances to a great animated game of bingo.

To launch a programme apply any of the post-obit methods:

  1. Click a tile in the Start carte du jour.

    Open the Start menu and click the All Apps button in the lower-left corner. This displays an alphabetical list of installed apps (as shown in the following figure). Click an app to open up it.

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    Double-click a program shortcut icon on the desktop (see the following figure).

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    Click an detail on the desktop taskbar to display a currently open plan. The taskbar should display by default. If it doesn't, printing the Windows key (on your keyboard) to display it, and and then click an icon on the taskbar.

  2. When the awarding opens, if it'south a game, play it; if it'due south a spreadsheet, enter numbers into it; if it's your e-mail program, commencement deleting junk mail . . . you get the idea.

Well-nigh mainstream apps, such as Microsoft Word and Quicken, offering a few ways to close the programme. On a Windows computer, at that place is a Shut button shaped like an X in the upper-right corner of the program window, as shown in the following effigy. Click this button. If you have an unsaved document open, you may be asked if you desire to save it earlier closing the program, which is a adept thought. If you have already saved the document, the program simply closes. You lot tin can also employ the File menu control Shut to close the program.

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In non-productivity apps, such as games or utilities like Windows Calculator, there may or may not exist a Close button. If there isn't, look for a chief menu and choose a command such equally Go out from the choices that appear.

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Woody Leonhard is a bestselling author and has been a Microsoft beta tester since Word for Windows 1.one. He covers Windows and Office topics on his popular Spider web site, AskWoody.com. Woody Leonhard is a bestselling writer and has been a Microsoft beta tester since Word for Windows 1.ane. He covers Windows and Office topics on his pop Web site, AskWoody.com.

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