Installing Windows 10
The first operating system we're going to
install is Windows 10 OS.
This is the second latest iteration of
the windows family operating system.
If you buy the software and stores,
it comes in a nifty USB drive.
I have Windows loaded on a USB drive.
I'm going to go ahead and start
the drive and boot it in a minute.
But first, let's make sure we have our BIOS or
UEFI boot order set to boot from the USB drive.
Depending on what the manufacturer of your computer uses,
you'll either hit "F12" or some
other key to access the BIOS settings.
It looks good.
Let's just let it run and we'll see
it booting from the USB drive.
Take note that your installation process might be
slightly different depending on the version of Windows.
I'm just going to click "Next" here.
I's just asking for my language preference,
my time and keyboard
and I'm going to click the Install now button.
It's asking for product key.
I'm just going to go ahead and skip this, do that later and just asking me to agree to a software license term,
so I'm just going to accept.
Next. Now it's asking
which type of installation I want to do.
I'm just going to click on "Custom"
because I just want to install Windows.
I select the drive I want to install it on.
It looks
like the computer restarted,
now it's just configuring updates.
Once it's done updating, it's
going to restart one more time.
Now we're launched into
the screen here that's asking
us to enter in the product key.
We're just going to go ahead and skip to this.
For now, we'll do this later.
I'm going to I click "Do this
later" and now it's
asking me what settings we want to use.
We're just going to click "Use Express" settings for now.
I just want to start using
our machine as quickly as possible.
It's asking us to create an account for this PC.
The first field is the username.
A username is unique identifier for a user account.
I'm just going to go ahead and use
my first name as my username.
Next, I'll enter a password.
Once that's done, we'll go ahead and finish our setup.
It's starting to set up everything for us.
Perfect. Now here we
are inside the Windows 10 operating system.
Let's check it out. This is our user space.
We have our desktop environment here where we can
navigate our files, folders, and applications.
The main screen here is called a desktop.
In the bottom-right corner here we have a task bar.
This gives us quick options and
shows us information like network connectivity,
date, system notifications, sound, etc.
In the bottom left-hand corner here,
we can access the applications,
files, folders, and settings.
You can also shut down,
restart and power off your computer from here.
Let's move on to our system settings.
In the main menu go ahead and navigate to the settings.
From here, you can change any of
your system settings like display resolution,
user accounts, network, devices, etc.
Now, we're going to create a file in
our operating system with our GUI.
Let's create a file here on our desktop.
All you need to do is
right-click and you'll see some options available.
Then select "New", then "Text Document".
Bam. Now we have a text file on our desktop.
We just need to give it a name.
How about my super cool file?
That's it. You just created a file on Windows.
It wasn't so bad, was it?