- [Instructor] To make a significant change
to your system settings.
You'll need to go to the start menu
and open settings from there.
Or you might need to click where it says all apps.
And then of course,
scroll through this list and you can launch settings there.
But for now I want to close this
and I want to talk about a
faster way to get to many of the most important settings.
To do that,
we'll go to the task bar on the far right side,
next to where you see the date and time.
There's this cluster of three buttons,
and you can click on that to open the quick settings panel.
I mentioned this in other videos,
it's a place where you can do things like quickly set your
volume level or make changes to your network settings.
But each of these items is actually a shortcut
to the main window settings tool.
Now first, if you click this gear button
in the quick settings panel,
that's just another way to go
into the settings application.
For now, I'm going to close that and go back
to the quick settings panel.
Now of course we could adjust the volume level
of the sound on your computer with this slider,
but you'll see there's an arrow next to it.
And if you click on that,
if you have multiple audio output devices on your computer,
you can choose the one that you want to use.
And then you can click the back button here.
But here's the thing that I really want to show you.
If you want even more sound settings,
you can right click on the sound icon,
and you can choose go-to settings.
That launches the window settings application,
and it goes straight to the subcategory for sound.
Once again, I'm going to close this
and go back to the quick settings panel.
And I want you to see that that's going to work
for any of these icons.
You can just right click on them,
and you get that menu to go to settings.
So these are all just shortcuts
to the main system settings tool.
Now you'll also see there's this option here
to edit quick settings,
or you can just go down to the bottom of the panel
and there's one button here to edit quick settings.
This lets you change what will appear
in the quick settings panel.
So when I activate that first,
I could unpin any of these buttons up at the top.
So maybe I don't use the button for airplane mode.
I can click this unpinned button and it goes away.
Next I can click where it says add,
and I can add other items to the quick settings panel.
So if you use any of these settings on a regular basis,
you can choose it and it adds it here.
Now while you're still in this mode,
you can actually drag these buttons
around to change the order.
And when you're finished,
just click done.
And now you have a shortcut to that new setting
that you just added.
So I recommend you use quick settings instead of the full
settings application when you can
and feel free to customize it.
So it really does have the shortcuts that you need.