4. Personalizing Windows 8

In This Chapter

• Personalizing Your Language, Keyboard, and Locale Settings

Personalizing Colors and Pictures

Personalizing Tile Groups

• Personalizing Accessibility Options

Personalizing How Notifications Work

• Personalizing How Windows 8 Synchronizes Your Preferences

Personalizing the Desktop

Short of playing games and keeping up with Twitter and Facebook, there probably is no greater distraction from real work than tweaking and adjusting all those preferences that make Windows 8 your own. You wouldn’t be the first person to spend more time picking colors and pictures for your Windows 8 background than actually working. Although this version of Windows may seem like it has fewer options with which to personalize ...

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