{"id":15491,"date":"2018-08-24T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=15491"},"modified":"2018-08-24T10:24:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:24:06","slug":"how-to-find-out-how-much-data-you-use-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-find-out-how-much-data-you-use-on-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Out How Much Data You Use on Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>How to Find Out How Much Data You Use on Windows 10<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><em>(This tip was written for Windows 10 (Versions 1709 and 1803)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Have you ever wondered how much data you use on your computer? There&#8217;s an easy way to find out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here&#8217;s how:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Right-click the start button and click on Settings (or press Windows key + i to open settings). In Settings click on &#8220;Network and Internet&#8221;. In &#8220;Network &amp; Internet&#8221;, click on &#8220;Data usage:\u00a0 in the menu you&#8217;ll see on the left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When the &#8220;Data usage&#8221; you&#8217;ll see at glance how much data you&#8217;ve used in the last 30 days,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/datause.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips - Emoji Panel in Windows 10 v. 1803 \" width=\"548\" height=\"572\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Additionally, if you have a data plan that limits how much data you can use, you can set a data limit in the Data usage dialog (see above).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Now that you can see how much data you&#8217;ve used over the last 30 days, you might want to see what programs use the most data. That&#8217;s easy. Just click on the connection you&#8217;re using (in the screenshot above all of my data is via my OmahaPlus WiFi network) and you&#8217;ll see a list of apps and the amount of data they&#8217;ve used over the last 30 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/datause1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips - Emoji Panel in Windows 10 v. 1803 \" width=\"548\" height=\"576\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you watch movies or a lot of videos online, you may be surprised how much data you&#8217;re using. Note also (see the screenshot above), you can reset all data usage stats\u00a0 to zero by clicking the &#8220;Reset usage stats&#8221; button.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Keep this in mind:\u00a0 You&#8217;ll only see the data usage from your Windows 10 PC.\u00a0 if you have a tablet or smartphone that uses your home WiFi, it won&#8217;t be reflected in the Windows data usage statistics and neither will it show data usage from any other Internet-connected device like a Roku, Amazon Fire Stick, Chromecast or Smart TV. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Find Out How Much Data You Use on Windows 10 (This tip was written for Windows 10 (Versions 1709 and 1803) Have you ever wondered how much data you use on your computer? There&#8217;s an easy way to find out. Here&#8217;s how: Right-click the start button and click on Settings (or press Windows key + i\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-find-out-how-much-data-you-use-on-windows-10\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2619,2618,1700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15492,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491\/revisions\/15492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}