Windows 10 has secret scren recording

Windows 10 has  secret scren recording

Windows 10 has not even been released yet, but that’s a perfect reason to start unearthing a few secrets. Over the coming weeks and months there will undoubtedly be an endless stream of tips, tricks, and tweaks to try out, but how’s this for starters? Windows 10 has a secret screen recording tool that can be used to capture on-screen activity as a video file.

Taking a static screenshot is very simple. You can either hit the Print Screen key, use the Snipping Tool, or turn to one of the countless screen capture tools out there — many of which are free. When it comes to capturing video, however, it’s something of a different story. Before you splash out on a dedicated tool such as Camtasia, you might want to try out Windows 10’s hidden tool. It’s designed for gamers really, but anyone can use it.

The Game bar is a toolbar which Microsoft meant for gamers to use to capture screenshots of their high scores, as well as video footage of their gaming skills. Despite the name, it is not limited to use within games, and you would be forgiven for having missed it as you browsed through the latest ver asion of the operating system — you’re not going to stumble across it by accident.

Hit the Windows key and G, and a popup will appear asking if you would like to open Game bar — there are no Yes and No buttons, but check the ‘Yes, this is a game’ box (you will have to do this the first time you access the screen recorder in any application).

Things are pretty self-explanatory here — just hit the standard record button to start capturing footage. Hit the button again to stop recording, or you can use theWindows key + Alt + R keyboard shortcut. The Settings button can be used to place a limit on the length of videos that can be recorded — this helps you to avoid filling up your hard drive if you forget to stop a recording. Videos are saved in MP4 format in the Videos\Captures folder.

You may or may not have realized that this tool is part of Windows 10’s Xbox app, and this is where you need to head to adjust more settings. Go to the Game DVR section (the fifth icon from the bottom) and you can access the videos you’ve recorded, as well as use a basic trim tool to get rid of unwanted sections from the beginning and end.

High resolution displays

New 4K display with your Windows 10 PC? Here is how to fix its 

biggest problem.

High resolution displays have finally flooded the market, with more affordable options than ever. PC users have now the option of getting above-4K resolutions, either by connecting their PC to a smart TV, or by purchasing a 4K or 5K PC display, often boasting resolutions over the 3000 x 2000 pixels mark.
The great thing about 4K and above, is the sharpness and overall picture quality is leaps and bounds beyond any previous generation LCD display on the market. With that said, there is one, “very small” caveat specific to high-resolution PC monitors.
Anybody who has connected a PC to a big screen TV, might have noticed that the Windows taskbar, and other elements become extremely tiny, depending on the height of the resolution.
On displays featuring resolutions above 3000 x 2000 pixels, using, or even seeing desktop elements in Windows 10 becomes problematic. Text and buttons in universal apps or regular desktop applications are too small to be usable, often requiring to zoom in and out of workspaces to be able to accomplish simple tasks, like typing a document.
Fortunately, Microsoft Windows 10 has a built-in solutions to fix this problem, in the form of Display Scaling, which is a feature that allows to scale the overall size of the desktop interface elements, including icons, toolbars, default font, and even the main taskbar, to be more visible on displays 4K and above.

This feature is not new to Windows users, as it’s been around since Microsoft Windows 95, and part of a trend regarded as “Resolution Independence”, which was a range of technologies adopted across all early consumers PCs and Macs, with the common goal of ensuring that any desktop interface would look the same, no matter the size and resolution of the screen.
Most regular consumers may not even be aware of this feature, until the time comes to connect additional displays and experiment with different resolutions.
Setting display scaling in Windows 10
Adjusting the scale of Windows 10 interface elements can be set quickly and easily from within the Settings app, under System > Display.
Using the slider labeled “Change the size of text, apps, and other items”, will allow to adjust the way Windows 10 interface elements look at higher resolutions, for a more comfortable user experience.
For instance, setting the slider to 200% will result in all interface elements to scale up to twice the regular size, while maintaining the same sharp resolution for all elements, due to the fact that the taskbar, application toolbars, buttons and other items will be rendered with four times as many pixels.