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18.3.6. Home Group
With home network groups, a Windows® 8 function, connecting home computers
becomes child’s play. A home network group is set up automatically when you
connect the first PC running Windows® 8 to the home network. Adding additional
PC’s running Windows
®
8 to the home network group can be done very quickly.
You can specify precisely what should be shared on each PC with all other PCs in
the home network group. Sharing files on the various home PCs – and on many
other devices – is then as easy as if all the data were located on a single hard drive.
Thus, you can save digital photos on the computer in the study and then access
them easily on a notebook in any other room. Similarly, the printer in the study is
automatically shared among all PCs in the house once they are part of the home
network group.
18.4. Overview
The greatest innovation with Windows
®
8 is the Start screen. This key element
replaces the Start menu in Windows
®
8. Here you can run all the main programs and
services. As with previous versions, operation is by inputting commands using the
mouse or keyboard.
The Start screen can be opened at any time using the
(
Win
) key. This key
also allows you to switch back and forth between the Start screen and an active
application. To switch to an application other than the last one opened, press the
Win+Tab
keyboard shortcut.
A central feature of the Start screen are the tiles which each represent an
application or function. They are shown in blocks and you can define the number of
blocks and their columns yourself.
Drag
&
drop
the tiles to the desired position using the mouse.
18.4.1. Logging in to Windows
To be able to work with Windows® 8, you must set up a Windows
®
8 user account.
Move the mouse pointer into the top right or bottom corner of the display,
move the mouse down and click
Settings
.
Next, select
Change PC settings
.
Open the
User
category.
Select
Add a user
, to set up additional user accounts.
Windows® 8 allows you to log in using 3 different login procedures. Windows® 8
gives you the choice of standard login by
password
, a
PIN
or an
image code
. To set
up a
PIN
or
image code
, you must first have set up a password for Windows® 8.
