Two last Windows 10 tips today.
When you upgrade your operating system (OS) it has a setting to roll back to your previous version of Windows. So if you did not like W10 you can roll back to your former Windows 7 or 8 operating system. I personally have only known a couple of people to do this and it was successful; however, I do not recommend it.
Once you have advanced to W10 and have the ability to roll it back to the previous version you will have a lot of hard drive space taken up by the old OS. If you have decided you like W10 you can delete that data from your system. It is about 20 GB of space used up for nothing if you do not intend to move back to the old world.
To get that space back start by clicking the start button and type, "Disk Cleanup", click it and choose your C drive. A window will start saying that it is calculating how much space you will save after it finishes. This may take several minutes depending on the size of your hard drive and the number of applications on your computer. Be patient.
The next window has a list of items it can clean and will tell you the total savings you will get after it runs. I advise you to check them all to get maximum effect. Now click the button on the lower left labeled "Clean up system files" which is where the restore data you want to remove is located. The "Disk Cleanup" window will return and it will run through the original process again; however, it may not take as long to complete.
After it has ended make sure all of the check boxes are checked again. Then notice you now have one that says, "Previous Windows installation(s)" which is larger than the others. That is unless you have a full Recycle Bin. On my computer it was about 17 GB but yours could be larger or smaller.
Click OK and let it go. Once done you will have a fairly good chunk of your hard drive space back. Be sure that you do not intend to roll back to your previous version of Windows before you click OK. Once you do so the old version is gone.
And now for the absolutely best feature in Windows 10. (Well, OK in my opinion.) In previous versions of windows when you have multiple windows opened at the same time you could only scroll the active window. You know if you were browsing a recipe online in your browser and typing it into a text document. Then if you wanted to scroll down the page in your browser while you were typing you had to click the browser window to make it active in order to do so. No longer.
All you do now is hover your mouse over the window and scroll. Wherever the mouse is becomes the active window without clicking. If your cursor was in your text document, you may even continue typing while scrolling in another application. That is very useful to me.
Settings for this are available going to Start and typing, “Mouse and touchpad settings” and shown below. This is only if you are interested in looking or need to change the settings.
