It's time to talk about the new Windows 10, 2020 Update. Let's dive in. Hey guys, Really, that's just great, you know I'm doing pretty great today too because a new version of Windows 10 is just on the horizon. But pay attention to the tech news, check your Windows 10 updates, and you'll see it soon enough.
If you're a Windows Insider, right now you can actually get access to the beta builds.
So, what kind of new features can we expect? I'm glad you asked. Part of this Windows 10, 2020 Update is something you may have already seen. I'm talking about those new app icons. Microsoft is adding color into the icons as they move away from the primarily monochrome look.
The bigger interface of update which we'll see more of in the future.
In fact, Microsoft teased this concept on Instagram, back on March 19th, 2020. Two of the notable changes from the teaser video were the removal of the colored fills in the Start menu tiles and a new File Explorer. That aside, let's take a look at some of the new features. Cortana is now a standalone application. You can un-dock it from the taskbar, and the window behaves like any other Windows application.
In the Settings, you can change the default input to be voice or text, and you can summon Cortana with Windows Key + C on your keyboard. Quick searches now appear at the bottom of the panel, and there's a cool reverse search button, which is also available in the Photos app. Click it, and you can drag a marquee selection around an image, then Bing will automatically display visually similar search results. The game bar has a new performance overlay. You can pin this to your game so you can monitor performance, without having the rest of the game bar UI open. Sad face, moving on, the calculator now has a new button, which makes it float above other apps, pretty neat. Click, type, boom, done.
Macs Fan Control the text in macOS, so I know a thermal sensor is there, but I guess it's not compatible with this Windows 10 build. Another sad face. Now lets transition to the settings application. It seems like, with many new versions of Windows 10, Microsoft is taking those classic Control Panel items, and moving them into the modernized Settings application. They're doing more of that, but they're also adding in some other features. Let's take a look. First up, you can now set data limits under the Data Usage setting. You can set the size of the limit and have it reset monthly, or you can have it reset after a certain amount of time.
For downloading updates in the background you can also set additional bandwidth limits.
Under the Ease of Access setting, you can change the mouse pointer color, including an inverted option, and you could enable a new feature called Text Cursor Indicator. This makes the text cursor easier to see, and you may also adjust its size and color too. And now, yes, you can adjust the mouse pointer speed in settings without having to summon the classic Control Panel. Let's switch over to the sign-in options. If you use any non-password options for sign in, you can now disable the password field on the lock screen. I'm old school, so I still use a keyboard.
Here's another handy feature, with a cloud download you can now reset your PC.
So if your system is full of junk and you need to reinstall, you can download a fresh copy of the OS, without having to restore ISO files, or carry physical media with you. One more setting change I want to show, when you get a notification you'll notice a new gear icon.
If you click it, you'll see options to instantly turn off all notifications for an app, or you can use it to jump right to the notification settings. All right, we covered a bunch of new settings, and a bunch of new features, but now let's jump over to Windows for Linux Subsystem. (whooshing) WSL was originally released on August 2nd, 2016, and version two was released to Windows Insiders on June 12th, 2019. So it's been around for a while. Go ahead and play with it if you haven't already. In the May 2020 Update, Microsoft has been readying some improvements.
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