{"id":16569,"date":"2019-04-11T09:56:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=16569"},"modified":"2019-04-11T09:56:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:56:23","slug":"a-windows-10-menu-you-might-not-know-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-windows-10-menu-you-might-not-know-you-have\/","title":{"rendered":"A Windows 10 Menu You Might Not Know You Have"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"auto-style835\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>A Windows 10 Menu You Might Not Know You Have<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">No matter how much we think we know about Windows, we\u2019re always finding something new. Well, maybe not new, just different. The &#8220;Windows Accessories&#8221; menu is on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style835\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Back in the days of XP, Vista, and even in Windows 7, Accessories was listed under \u201cA\u201d alphabetically, but in Windows 10, it\u2019s listed under Windows Accessories and hence, it\u2019s listed under the \u201cW\u201d section of the Start menu. So, while it used to be near the top and easy to find, now it\u2019s hidden near the bottom of the Start menu and you might not have noticed it. To get to Windows Accessories, you have to click the Windows 10 Start button, then scroll down to the W&#8217;s and find Windows Accessories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Well, here, take a look:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">in<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/win-acc.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style838\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hidden in the Windows Accessories menu are many useful items. When you click the down-arrow next to Windows Accessories (see above) you\u2019ll see a menu open (see below):<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style835\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/win-acc1a.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style838\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As you can see there are some useful Windows programs are hiding in the Window Accessories menu \u2013 things like Character Map (which helps you make stuff like \u00e6 \u00d8 \u00df \u00bf \u2013 characters not normally available on your keyboard \u2013 well at least not on my keyboard). You\u2019ll also find WordPad, Notepad, Snipping Tool, Quick Assist, Internet Explorer and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And if anything in the Accessories menu is something you use often, you can make a shortcut on the Start menu or Taskbar. All you have to do is right-click the item you want to put on your Start menu or Taskbar and choose \u201cPin to Start\u201d or click \u201cMore\u201d and then \u201cPin to taskbar\u201d. Below, we&#8217;re adding&#8221;Notepad&#8221; to our Windows 10 taskbar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style835\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/win-acc2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Internet\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Windows 10 Menu You Might Not Know You Have No matter how much we think we know about Windows, we\u2019re always finding something new. Well, maybe not new, just different. The &#8220;Windows Accessories&#8221; menu is on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. Back in the days of XP, Vista, and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-windows-10-menu-you-might-not-know-you-have\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3059,3060,1700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16569"}],"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=16569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16570,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16569\/revisions\/16570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}