86 Exploring Your Computer’s Features

Windows® Store

Typical tasks in the Notification area are Current time, Power usage
mode, network connectivity status, and speaker volume.
To activate a specific task, click the appropriate Notification area
icon.

Notifications

There are many types of notifications you can employ to help you
with the many tasks you perform every day.
User experience notifications can be set for toast, tile, badge, and
raw notifications.
Toast notifications—Designed for time-sensitive delivery of
personalized content, such as an instant message from a friend.
Tile notificatio ns—Used by applications that are not currently
running with an at-a-glance characteristic, giving you a quick
preview of the subject line of your latest email or the current
weather conditions.
Badge notifications—A specialized type of tile notification (shown
on the Start screen tile) using glyphs to indicate the number of
applications that have updates available or the status of a running
application.
Raw notifications—These run a background task on behalf of an
application while that application is not running in order to make
available the latest content, such as an online newspaper.
Windows® Store
Although many applications will be pre-installed or built-in to your
computer, you will also have the ability to download many other
applications with the click of your mouse.
In the Windows® Store you can search for and browse thousands of
apps, all grouped into easy to find categories.
Setting up for communications
To connect to the Internet, you need:
❖A browser or communications application
❖An Internet Service Provider (ISP) or online service if you plan
to use the Internet
❖A way to connect to the ISP (for example Wi-Fi®/
LAN/broadband connection, etc.)