{"id":21808,"date":"2021-07-20T08:17:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=21808"},"modified":"2021-07-20T08:17:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:17:39","slug":"a-windows-10-start-menu-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-windows-10-start-menu-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"A Windows 10 Start Menu Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\">A Windows 10 Start Menu Secret<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Did you know you can lock your computer, change your account settings, switch user accounts, and sign out of your computer by right-clicking on your account picture or account icon on the Windows 10 Start menu?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Open the Start menu and look on the left edge. You&#8217;ll see your user account picture or icon and icons for Documents, Pictures, File Explorer, Settings, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Just right-click on your user account picture or icon and a menu will appear (see the screenshot below). From that menu, you&#8217;ll be able to change your account settings, lock, and sign out of your computer, as well as switch user accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/lock-from-start.png\" alt=\"Windows 10 Start Menu Tricks - Cloudeight\" width=\"504\" height=\"585\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">How useful this tip is, is up to you, but at least now you know that menu exists. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And while we&#8217;re on this subject &#8211; the fastest way to lock your computer is to use the Windows key + L shortcut.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A Windows 10 Start Menu Secret Did you know you can lock your computer, change your account settings, switch user accounts, and sign out of your computer by right-clicking on your account picture or account icon on the Windows 10 Start menu? Open the Start menu and look on the left edge. You&#8217;ll see your user\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-windows-10-start-menu-secret\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948],"tags":[1813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21808"}],"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=21808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21810,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21808\/revisions\/21810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}