- [Instructor] Widgets are small pieces of software
that have a single task to help you through the day.
In the task bar, you can click the widgets button
to open the widgets panel,
and each of these little boxes is a widget.
They're similar to applications,
but they're smaller and more focused.
So whenever I need a quick look at the weather
or recent sports scores,
I can just pop open the widgets panel,
see what I need,
then click outside of it and move on.
And the widgets panel only works
if you are assigned into a Microsoft account
because it saves your preferences to that account.
If you scroll down in this panel,
there's also a news feed below the widgets
with headlines and links to lots of current news stories.
And this news feed is updated constantly.
But we'll focus mostly on the widgets for now.
And the big thing you might want to do is configure this
to show the widgets that you want.
So first, let's look at this weather widget.
On the top-right corner of each widget,
there is a button with three dots,
which opens a menu,
and one of the options here is to customize the widget.
The options are different for each one.
Here in the weather widget, I can set the location,
so I'm just going to search for a different place.
I can set the units that I prefer, then click Save.
And now I have the weather for that location.
Back in that menu, you can change the size of your widgets.
If I set this one to large, I get more information,
but I'm going to switch that back to medium.
There's also an option to remove widgets.
So maybe I don't use the stock widget.
I might want to come over here to that menu and remove it.
And, of course, you can add more widgets.
Just click the Add Widgets button down at the bottom.
There's a list of other widgets that you can add.
I'm going to add the traffic widget.
Then, I'll click the X to close this.
And, of course, I might want to go to the menu
on that new widget, customize it,
and set it to a different location.
But for now, I'm just going to cancel that.
And, of course, you can change the order of these widgets
by dragging them around.
So if I move this up here,
move this one over here.
I can get exactly the layout that I want.
Now one more thing to see,
if we click the button again to add widgets,
there's a button here to manage your news and interests.
This is where you can set your preferences
for the news feed that appears below the widgets.
Once again, this is linked to your Microsoft Online account
so it takes you to a website which is part of that account
and you can set up your preferred topics for the news feed,
but for now, I'm just going to close this.
So take a moment to configure the widgets,
add widgets, remove widgets you don't use,
and you can get this panel set up to quickly
get the information you need throughout the day.