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How to: Personalize a Windows 10 PC

What makes your house your home? Is it the furniture? The art? A few favourite collectibles arranged on the shelves? The same goes for your PC. If you’re new to Windows 10, we’ll show you how to personalize your PC to make it feel, well, yours.

From the moment you first power on your PC, you’ll be asked to choose how to manage your privacy and security. But once you complete that short process, the fun begins: you can select backgrounds, configure your Start menu, and choose apps and shortcuts. Think of this story as a complement to our tutorial on how to set up your new PC efficiently and effectively. This is the fun stuff.

The Windows 10 out-of-the-box experience

Any time you buy a new PC, you’re almost certainly going to walk through what Microsoft calls the ‘Out of Box Experience’, or OOBE. While the OOBE is simply a series of setup screens narrated by the voice of Cortana, Jen Taylor, it could differ a bit from PC to PC, and be determined by your choices. Generally, you’ll be able to handle most questions without any hand-holding; you’ll be asked for your preferred language and keyboard layout, to connect to Wi-Fi, and so

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