hi everyone kevin here today i want to

show you

five awesome features in windows 11.

now we all know that windows 11 has a

lot of new functionality

but these features are at the top of my

list

all right let's jump on the pc and let's

check these out

this brings us to awesome feature number

one and

that's windows dictation with auto

punctuation

in the past on windows 10 you could

dictate but it didn't include

punctuation

here i have a notepad file open and to

open up windows dictate i'll press the

windows key

together with the h key h is in hotel

and this opens up the dictate tool right

down below

here if i click on the settings gear

here i can see all of the different

settings and there's now a new option

for

auto punctuation i'll make sure to turn

that on

now when i click into this text field i

can click on the microphone and it'll

start listening

have you ever tried a cookie from the

kevin cookie company

they are the best cookies in the world

and check that out it adds all of the

correct punctuation here put a question

mark in and here it inserted a period

so the dictation tool has become much

more useful in windows 11.

this brings us to awesome feature number

two

you can now set up multiple desktops and

you can customize

what those desktops look like on the

taskbar there's an icon to view all of

your desktops

and when i click on this i can see that

i currently have one desktop

when i click on the plus icon this will

add another desktop

over here i can right click on it and

now i can customize it

this is something that i could not do on

windows 10.

here i can click on rename and maybe

i'll call this one play

and just for the fun of it i'll press

the windows key together with the

semicolon key

and i can insert an emoji here i'll go

with a robot since that's what my voice

sounds like

here when i right click on it i can also

choose a custom background

for this desktop let me go with this

light background i could also shift the

position of my different desktops

i could right click and here i can move

it to the left or i can move it back to

the right

i could also simply click on it and drag

it to the position that i want

to jump to my various desktops all i

need to do is click on it here

and that'll bring me to the other

desktop but what's even faster i can

simply use shortcut keys

i can press the control key together

with the windows key and my arrow keys

and then i can navigate between all of

my desktops overall

multiple desktops have gotten a lot

better in windows 11 but it's still

missing some key functionality

you can't currently customize the apps

that appear on the taskbar

across your different desktops and you

can't currently take

one of your desktops and put it on one

monitor and another desktop and place it

on

a different monitor this brings us to

awesome feature number three

and no it's not my new website

kevinstratford.com

right over here although i would say

that is a pretty awesome website

in windows 11 you're now able to take

snapping to the next level

and i could always snap in windows 10.

here i could simply take a window

drag it over to the side and i could

snap it into that position

but now along with being able to simply

drag it over to the edges

here i can hover over the maximize icon

and i get these nice snapping hints

so maybe i'll place this in the top

right hand corner and right down here

i'll place this in the bottom right hand

corner so i have a little bit more

flexibility now

if you really want to take snapping to

the next level microsoft offers a free

tool

called power toys and this is available

on both windows 10

and also on windows 11 and you can do

so much beyond what you can do in

windows 11. here for example i have

power

toys open and over on the left hand side

there's something called

fancy zones think of this as very

advanced

snapping over here i can launch a layout

editor and

i can choose exactly what i want my

different snap zones to look like

and if i'm not satisfied with any of

these options i could also create

my own layout so here let's go with a

grid and i'll click on create

if you look at this i could select

exactly what my snapping grid looks like

so once again you get

a ton of power around snapping along

with snapping you get

all of these other awesome tools and

once again it's completely free to

download and

install if you're interested in power

toys i've included a link in the

description down below

awesome feature number four and this

one's related to snapping

once i take the time to snap all of

these different windows on my screen i

don't want to have to go through all of

that again

luckily there's now something called

snap groups now

if you remember i had three different

browser windows that i had snapped to my

screen

i can go down to my taskbar and they

were chrome windows

here i could see each one of the

individual windows and

i now also see the entire group so here

when i click on the group that'll

restore the entire group back onto my

screen

this brings us to the last awesome

feature of today

and that's the inclusion of widgets in

windows 11.

it's a little bit of a flashback to

windows 7.

right down on the taskbar i can click on

the widget icon

and here i get a whole bunch of helpful

information

here for example i could see all of my

tasks hey it says film a video well i'm

doing that so let me check that item

over here i can see the weather the

calendar traffic information

photos i get all this information and i

can also customize

what these look like when i click on the

ellipsis i could set it to small medium

large

and i could even customize it with the

weather for example i could set my

location

here i'll click on cancel here i could

also reorder

all the different widgets so it appears

how i like it

and if i go down right at the bottom i

can also add additional widgets and here

you can see

all of the different widgets that are

available and my guess is

over time you'll see more widgets join

this list

down below you'll also see some of the

top news headlines

before we wrap up i want to leave you

with one bonus awesome feature

and to be fair this isn't new to windows

11 but

it's really not that well known and it's

the secret start menu

down on the taskbar i have my typical

start menu i click on it with my left

mouse and that opens up

but instead of left clicking on it i can

right click on it

and that opens up that secret start menu

right up on top

i have some settings and i can jump

directly to them

and down below i could also open up the

task manager and i have a few other

settings as well

so it's just a handy thing if you need

to quickly jump to any of these settings

let me know down below in the comments

would you add

any other features to this awesome

feature list

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