WINDOWS 10 Unidad 4-Eng-V01.docx

WINDOWS 10 -- What\'s New?? - iLink Digital **Unit 4 -- Searches** - Introduction - Search in File Explorer - Search from the taskbar - Search & Privacy Settings - Cortana **Unit 4. Searches** **Introduction**  **Search in File Explorer** Before typing anyth...

WINDOWS 10 -- What\'s New?? - iLink Digital **Unit 4 -- Searches** - Introduction - Search in File Explorer - Search from the taskbar - Search & Privacy Settings - Cortana **Unit 4. Searches** **Introduction**  **Search in File Explorer** Before typing anything in the search box, we can define the location of the search. We\'ve already mentioned that the search is performed in the Explorer\'s current location by default. However, we can modify this using the commands in the first section of the Search context tab on the **Ribbon**. We could, for example, click on the **This** Computer button, and the search would be performed on our entire computer. As we can see, we can also search the current folder and include or delete its respective subfolders. The second section allows us to refine the search before entering something into the search box. We can indicate the **Modified Date** (if it\'s a file we worked with yesterday and we don\'t remember its location, here\'s a simple solution) by File Type (image, music, contact, etc.) by **Disk Size** and **Other properties**.  Each option has a drop-down menu with the possibilities you can select. In the case of the **Modification Date**, we are not expected to remember specific dates. We can set time ranges in which we assume that the file has been modified for the last time; that way, we will get all the files we have worked with in the indicated period and find the desired one even if we do not remember its name. Graphical user interface, application Description automatically generated At the same time, we find a long list of file types we can search through in Type. We can leave this option unselected if we know part or all of our file\'s names but don\'t know what type they are. Still, we have enough criteria to find it. If, on the other hand, we know what type it is and specify it in the list, Windows will speed up the search, limiting it to the kind of file indicated and the selected location. With that simple combination of criteria, we will get the result faster. Look at the list that comes out of Type; it\'s long. As you can see, Microsoft has no intention of leaving anything out.  Graphical user interface, application Description automatically generated Finally, we have the **context tab\'s Options to find** the **Ribbon** of the **Explorer**. We must consider it because of the additional commands it gives us. First, there\'s a button that keeps a list of recent searches: We can also save the search; in this way, we can also save all the criteria that we have added to it in terms of location and Refining. That\'s what the button is for. The search is saved in the same dialog box as any other file in Windows. In this way, we can indicate the name of the search in any search box, and it will be applied with all the criteria with which it has been saved.  Change indexed locations. By default, Windows indexes the contents of various folders to speed up searches. This button allows us to change these criteria, but unless you\'re a Windows power user, there\'s not much point in making changes here. Below, we see three options under the heading **In non-indexed locations.** **Contents of the file**. In previous versions of Windows, when searching, the system searched not only the file name but also its contents. In this way, if we wrote, for example, ***Chrysanthemum*** in the result, we would see the files with that name (images, for example) and find text files that included it as a word. Windows 10 doesn\'t search the file\'s contents unless you specify it in this option. The advantage of whether or not to activate this option depends, of course, on the search. Just keep in mind that searching the contents of many files can increase the search time. **System files**. This option implies that the search will not be limited to folders containing user files but also to those containing system files. Again, we would have to assess the advantage of having this option active, especially if we are looking for work files that, strictly speaking, have nothing to do with the thousands of files that Windows is made up of. **Compressed folders**. With this option active, the search also includes compressed files and folders formatted with.***zip***, which we may have on our computer. Finally, if we click on a file in the results list, this button will open the folder where the file is located. It\'s a handy button. If you\'d like to learn more about how to personalize search behavior, you can visit this advanced Modify Search Options. Advanced: Modify search options  Let\'s take a look at your **options**: 1. Do not use the index when searching system files in the file folders option is checked, which **prevents Windows from using the indexing system**, which will slow down the search. But it can be marked if such a system gives us problems. 1. If we check **Include system directories**, it will search in operating system folders, making the search somewhat slower. 2. When checked, the Include Compressed Files option searches for the contents of the files. This slows down the search, as Windows must unzip files into temporary folders to do so. 2\. The third option also searches the contents of unindexed files, which slows down the search. **Search from the taskbar.** Graphical user interface, application Description automatically generated  Graphical user interface, application Description automatically generated  Graphical user interface, text, application, email Description automatically generated It is clear that, if we search for files on our computer with this search box, the results panel allows us to work with them. In other words, if you click on a document with the name you were looking for, that file will open with the corresponding application. If it\'s a video or music, it will start playing and run if it\'s an app. If you right-click on any of the files in the result, you\'ll get the option to open the folder that contains it. The search pane, in turn, contains four icons with their respective options. These are at the top left of the panel. The first icon actually only serves to display the title tags of the other three icons. Let\'s skip for a moment to the second icon, **Settings**, because we\'re going to stop at it A little more. Let\'s go to **Comments**. This icon is used, as the name implies, to send feedback to Microsoft. At first, we might think it\'s about sending feedback on Windows Search services to make them better. However, what\'s stopping us from providing feedback on any aspect of the system? We cannot, of course, confirm whether any user concerns will be answered, but the avenue to do so is at least open. Its use is very simple, we click on the icon, write a message of up to 400 characters and click **Send**. **Search & Privacy Settings** Below the Cortana-related options, we can see that it is possible to disable online searches of the search box results. That would limit searches to the files and folders on our computer. If you keep this option turned on, then you\'ll probably want to filter results with adult content, especially if young family members are also using the same computer. That\'s what Bing **SafeSearch** Settings is for. Pressing it opens your internet browser to configure those options. Next to those panel options are Other **Settings and Privacy Options**, which takes us to the Windows 10 Privacy Settings dialog windows. It\'s important to be aware of those options, but without falling into the paranoia of thinking we\'re being closely watched by Microsoft. Microsoft\'s use of personal data isn\'t really much different from Google\'s use of Android or its search engine, or Apple\'s use of iOS. Some of these options are necessary if you want to get useful search results. For example, if we want a search, or **Cortana**, to tell us about the traffic or weather in our area, it\'s impossible to get a good result if we don\'t provide information about the location of the computer. You\'re also not going to get useful results if you turn off access to your contacts and then try to search them for a name. Something similar happens with Google: if we receive advertising, it will not be meaningful if no history of our searches or Internet browsing is saved. In any case, we would have to evaluate how much of our privacy we want to give up in exchange for more personalized services. Paradoxically, most people use the default options of the operating systems they use (Windows, iOS, or Android) without worrying much about the subject. But let\'s take a look at Windows 10\'s privacy options, just in case anyone finds it necessary to make any modifications. As we mentioned, clicking on **Other Settings & Privacy Options** opens the corresponding dialog box. On the left side are the different categories into which the topics are divided and on the right the configuration options that correspond to them. Each setting has a brief explanation of its function, which, in most cases, is sufficient to make a decision about it. Let\'s try to expand a bit. - **Allow apps to use my advertising ID**. It makes the applications that display ads more personalized, as it can use information collected by Microsoft regarding Internet queries or browsing habits. If you\'re uncomfortable with personalized ads, this option can be turned off. - **Turn on the Smartscreen filter**. Monitor the URLs of Windows Store apps to see if they\'re valid sites, with no malicious content. By definition, this option should always be active. - **Send information to Microsoft about how I write**. There is, of course, a huge difference between saying \"how I write\" and saying \"what do I write\". The second option would really give food for thought about our right to privacy. However, this feature is simply designed to collect information to improve the Autocomplete features that we can see in the **Edge** browser or in the search options. But we can also say that it\'s okay if it\'s disabled, it\'s that simple. - **Let websites offer locally relevant content**. This option gives access to the list of languages installed on Windows. If you only have Spanish installed (in any of its various regions), the use of this option isn\'t really a concern in terms of privacy either. In the **Location** category, we find the following settings: - As we already mentioned, location is necessary for some apps, such as **Weather**, to offer us a better service. In the dialog box, we need to activate, if we wish, the location twice, once for the computer (with the **Change** button) and once for the user, with the **Location** button. Then, if we deem it appropriate, we can select which apps can or cannot use our location. This is achieved in the same window, by scrolling the bar down and then selecting from the list of applications that appear there.  - This same principle is used for the following categories. That is, we can decide which apps can use the **Camera**, **Microphone**, **Account Information**, **Contacts**, **Calendars,** and **Messaging**. Obviously, we can\'t turn off all the features in this regard. For example, it doesn\'t make sense to use the Windows voice recorder to record some audio, if the app doesn\'t have access to the **Microphone**. Others can be turned off if desired. For example, we can set that absolutely no app has access to our contact list. - Another aspect of privacy that we have left at the end has to do not only with the data that defines us in some way, such as our location, name, and contact list, but also with the information that we dynamically generate. For example, what websites we visit, what we buy, who we write to most often, where we study or work, and so on. These choices involve an ongoing collection of information related to our activities. For many people, it is common for them to voluntarily provide that information through social media. In the case of Microsoft and Windows 10, there\'s an option called **Getting to Know You** found in the previous dialog box, in the **Speech, Inking, and Typing category**. This option can be turned off by pressing the **Stop Knowing Me** button. Then we\'ll need to use the Go to **Bing and manage your personal information across all your devices** to delete the information that\'s already stored in the cloud. - Now, if you feel that you don\'t really have much to hide in your life and that you trust what the **Microsoft Privacy Statement says** (which doesn\'t collect personal information from anyone), then you should activate this and other features to be able to use **Cortana**, the personal voice assistant that we have mentioned, which deserves a whole section. Graphical user interface, text, application Description automatically generated  Once active, it starts with some more or less random suggestions in which user information is collected. Text Description automatically generated with medium confidence From this point on, the search box that we have reviewed in this chapter is transformed. Now present the following message.  We can continue to search for files, folders, and topics on the internet, of course, as we saw in the first part of this topic. For example, by writing a word in the same box. Graphical user interface, application Description automatically generated  And, it seems, he always has an answer no matter what we want to ask. Look at the Ask in the box below. Graphical user interface, text, application Description automatically generated Of course, he resorts to Internet searches if our questions are a bit more complex.  Graphical user interface, application Description automatically generated The third icon provides us with an agenda that will remind us of what we record in it.