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    Microsoft is finally redesigning the Windows 10 UI with major tweaks


    Microsoft is looking to give the interface of the Start Menu, Action Center, and legacy File Explorer a major UI overhaul. This report is based on references found within Windows 10 preview builds, internal documentation, and industry sources.

    If you’ve been following the development of Windows for the last few years, you’ll have noticed a shift in the company’s design approach. Beginning with Windows 8, Microsoft introduced the “Metro Design” and it was also brought to other Microsoft services, and the metro feel has evolved into Fluent Design.

    Based on references found in internal documents, the next stage in the evolution of Windows 10 is an update to the existing design language – Fluent Design.

    The Fluent Design is not getting a complete overhaul, but Microsoft appears to be working on the next iteration of it and the improvements are also coming to Windows 10.

    Windows 10 Start Menu, Action Center, and even File Explorer will receive an updated user interface. We don’t know if the tech giant is working on a modern File Explorer, but the tech giant is mulling a new UI for the legacy File Explorer.

    You can expect improvements to the context menus, hamburger menu, app bar, taskbar, and other UI areas.

    Microsoft is also hoping to straighten up various user interface inconsistencies that can appear throughout the core areas of the operating system.

    In addition, Windows 10 Fluent Design update may be more concerned with the animation and transitioning between the shells. It’s also believed that Windows 10 may leverage WinUI 3.0, Fluent Design, rounded corners, amongst others.

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    Windows 10 UI overhaul project is headed by Surface head Panos Panay and it’s unlikely to arrive before the holiday season of 2021. The project has been in development over at Microsoft for a few months, and the work has only started, which means the updated user interface will arrive in Windows 10’s fall 2021 update.

    Of course, Insiders will see it after the summer of 2021.

    Fluent Design evolution


    Fluent Design was first announced in 2017 and it was supposed to refresh design language of Windows 10 and other Microsoft products. While the Fluent Design is available in some apps and services, those efforts have failed to make any difference for Windows 10.

    Windows 10 still has a UI consistency problem and Microsoft has been unable to modernize the legacy components.

    With Fluent Design, Microsoft promised to deliver a refreshed visual experience with new animations to help you find your way around the Start Menu, Taskbar, Action Center, and apps more quickly and naturally.

    Microsoft has always described Fluent Design as “an evolution of Metro” and this visual language is finally set to receive some long due improvements in 2021.

    Remember that Windows 10 won’t look radically different from the current design theme, but there’ll be some noticeable improvements.

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    Windows 10 Tweaks

    As you may already know, Windows 10 (as well as Windows 8) allow you to log in with a valid Microsoft account, instead of creating a local account that only works on your machine. However, you may prefer to keep a local account for privacy reasons. If you do, though, some Windows 10 features—like Cortana—may not work. Despite the default behavior, the Windows 10 Store is not one of them. You can still log in to your Microsoft account for just the Store without switching to a full Microsoft account. The process, however, is not terribly obvious. To do so, follow these steps:

    • Launch the Store from your Start menu.
    • Click the user icon next to the search box.
    • Click “Sign-in” from the menu that appears.
    • Choose “Microsoft account” and log in like normal.
    • When the “Make it yours” box appears do not enter your password. Instead, click “Sign in to just this app instead.”
    from Lifehacker
     
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    Windows 10 Tweaks

    Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

    Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

    • Open a new Explorer window.
    • Click View in the ribbon.
    • Click Options.
    • Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
    • Click OK


    credit to Lifehacker.
     
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    Microsoft is finally redesigning the Windows 10 UI with major tweaks

    Windows 10 Tweaks

    Privacy tweaks...

    • Turn Cortana Off. Bring up the Start menu and start typing. Click on the notebook icon in the left sidebar and choose Settings. From there, you can turn off Cortana.
    • Search online and include web results. When you turn off Cortana, you’ll see this option appear. You can turn it off if you’d rather not get web search suggestions from the Start menu, which log your typing and send it back to Microsoft so you can get live-updating predictions, just like you do on Google.com or in Chrome and Firefox.
    • Getting to Know You. In Settings > Privacy > Speech, Inking, & Typing, you’ll find a feature called “Getting to Know You”. This is probably the most sweeping privacy setting on the system, and even after turning off Cortana, you’ll have to disable this setting. Just click the “Stop Getting to Know Me” button to turn it off.
    • Cloud Info. Turning off Getting to Know You removes info from your device, but you’ll have to remove it from the cloud separately. In that same window, click “Go to Bing and manage personal info for all your devices” to clear the Getting to Know You Data from your Microsoft account.

    • If you head to Settings > Privacy > Feedback & Diagnostics, you’ll see two settings:
    • Feedback frequency: Windows will occasionally ask you for feedback so you can send Microsoft your thoughts on Windows 10. If you’d rather it not bug you with such things, you can change it to Never.
    • Diagnostic and usage data: This feature can send a lot of data back to Microsoft, including how often you use certain apps, which apps you use most often, and memory snapshots (which can inadvertently include parts of a document you’re working on if something crashes). You can change this to Full, Enhanced, or Basic. You can read more about what each of these to here.
    Microsoft doesn’t let you turn off diagnostics completely, except on Enterprise versions of Windows. The Basic setting, they say, is data that is “vital to the operation of Windows”, including Windows Update and malicious software protection.


    some may be duplicated. I found this info on Lifehacker, if anyone wants the full article.
     
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