Windows Hello is facial-recognition and fingerprint-reading bio-metric authentication technology in Windows 10 that enables users to protect and access their desktop, laptop, or mobile device without needing to enter a password.

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• Some of these gestures will only work with precision touchpads. To find out if your laptop has one, select Start > Settings > Devices > Touchpad.

Gestures:

• Select an item: Tap on the touchpad.
• Scroll: Place two fingers on the touchpad and slide horizontally or vertically.
• Zoom in or out: Place two fingers on the touchpad and pinch in or stretch out.
• Show more commands (similar to right-clicking): Tap the touchpad with two fingers, or press in the lower-right corner.
• See all open windows: Place three fingers on the touchpad and swipe them away from you.
• Show the desktop: Place three fingers on the touchpad and swipe them towards yourself.
• Switch between open windows: Place three fingers on the touchpad and swipe right or left.
• Open Cortana: Tap three fingers on the touchpad.
• Open action center: Tap four fingers on the touchpad.
• Switch virtual desktops: Place four fingers on the touchpad and swipe right or left.

1. Presentation Director <Fn+F7>: this key combo brings up a utility to manage dual displays and projectors. Next time you fumble around trying to get your slides on the screen, losing your audience's attention, find this tool and start presenting and not messing around.

2. UltraNav Wizard<Fn+F8> Turns on/off the pad or stick and customizes the pad hotspots.

3. Full Screen Magnifier<Fn+Spacebar>. Suffer from hypermetropia (farsighted?), hit this key combo and you're in the land of large type. Hit it again and the display goes back to its original state.

4. TrackPoint Center Button location-sensitive magnifier or scroller. Find the center button, hold it down, and scroll to your heart's content with the Trackpoint.

5. Wireless Controls <Fn+F5> also invokes the radio control user interface, which is useful if one wants to shut down unneeded wireless components to save battery power.

6. Power Manager, <Fn+F3>. This key combo invokes the power scheme manager, where the user can set charge thresholds to maximize battery life (not minutes of charge, but overall lifespan before having to buy a new one, and they're expensive)

7. Fingerprint sensor and password manager application. Swipe your finger over the sensor, and store other passwords in the security manager application.

8. Shutting down your system when it's hung and nothing else works (press the Power key for 6 seconds). When all else fails, just find the power button, press down, and voila, you're back in the game.

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