Windows 10 Tips and Tricks!

1. Dark theme
a dark theme was the most-requested feature that users wanted from the Anniversary Update. Your wish has been granted. Find it at Settings > Personalization > Colors.

2. The Calendar
The Anniversary Update worked some helpful new functionality into the Windows taskbar’s calendar, which has long been the barest of bare-bones features. Now, the taskbar calendar integrates with Windows 10’s core Calendar app, so if you click the date and time in the right-hand side of your taskbar, the calendar that pops up includes a full look at your schedule for the day.

3. Cortana
Cortana’s finally made the leap to the PC in Windows 10, assuming control of the operating system’s search functions and dishing out just as much sass as the Windows Phone version. But by default, she doesn’t listen for your commands.
If you’d like to be able to just bark commands at your PC, open Cortana by clicking the search field in the taskbar and select the Notebook icon in the left-side options pane. Select Settings from the list, then simply enable the Let Cortana respond when you say “Hey Cortana” option. You’ll need an active microphone for this to work, of course.

4. Natural Language search
Cortana can handle all sorts of commands you issue using natural language, such as playing music, creating reminders, showing the weather, or even remembering random facts for you, but the most powerful use of her natural language abilities revolves around basic search capabilities. You can give Cortana basic commands like “Find pictures from June” or “Find documents with Windows 10” and she’ll apply the appropriate filters, then scour your local files and OneDrive storage for results.

5. Cortana everywhere
Cortana will be able to pull notifications and low-battery warnings from your phone and beam them to your PC, reducing the need to pull your phone out of your pocket—and the threat of a dead device at the end of the day. You’ll be able to receive your Android or Windows 10 Mobile phone’s notifications on your Windows PC, and be able to respond to texts via Cortana. One last trick: Pulling up Maps directions on your PC and pushing them over to your phone via the Cortana app.