8 Fresh Windows 8 Features


Bangalore: Shortly after introducing Windows 8 Release Preview Microsoft has been recurrently up dating it with features that are novel and user friendly. With Window 8 in the lime light the company has drastically broadened the user interface, reshaping it so that it works on both regular PCs and touch-based tablets.

Though the OS is not commercially available, you have the facility to download the Release Preview version of the same. The preview version is for free and can run on any PC that can run Windows 7. Here are 8 major features that are unique to Windows 8, which makes it different from its predecessors.

1. Picture Password

Passwords can no more remain sterile. Instead of typing an array of letters, numbers and special characters, here you can program a pattern of movements on the screen to unlock your PC. What you have to do is to simply click on “Create a picture password” under Settings > Users. Then you will be prompted to select a picture for locking your screen and then to pick three gestures to make on the image that would ultimately be your password. The next time you log in, all you have to do is to repeat those gestures in the correct order to get access to Windows.

This is an extremely useful feature especially when you are using Windows 8 on a touchscreen tablet. Because, the picture password would restrain you from bringing up an onscreen keyboard to log in to the machine.

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