Windows 11 Inside Out, 1st edition
Title overview
The definitive expert guide to Windows is now rewritten from the ground up to deliver the most valuable, detailed hands-on insights for maximizing your productivity with Windows 11. Legendary Windows expert Ed Bott reveals the full power of Windows 11's most innovative new features, and offers detailed guidance on making the most of Microsoft's new Windows with modern PC hardware and cloud services.
Windows 11 isn't just an incremental update: it's a thorough and thoughtful reworking of Windows, from user experience to security—a new way of working, for more than 250,000,000 new device owners every year. Now, backed with insider support from Microsoft's own Windows teams, Bott presents better, smarter ways to work with it: hundreds of timesaving tips, practical solutions, troubleshooting techniques, and easy workarounds you won't find anywhere else. In one supremely well-organized reference, you'll find authoritative coverage of all this, and much more:
- Windows 11's new user experience, from reworked Start menu and Settings app to voice input
- The brand-new Windows 365 option for running Windows 11 as a Cloud PC, accessible from anywhere
- Major security and privacy enhancements that leverage the latest PC hardware
- Expert insight and options for installation, configuration, deployment, and management – from the individual to the enterprise
- Getting more productivity out of Windows 11's built-in apps and advanced Microsoft Edge browser
- Improving performance, maximizing power efficiency, troubleshooting, and backup/recovery
- Managing and automating Windows with PowerShell, Windows Terminal, and other pro tools
- Running Android apps on Windows 11, and using the Windows subsystem for Linux
This is the first edition of Windows 11 Inside Out. Compared with Windows 10 Inside Out, it contains extensive new feature coverage, including a new emphasis on how Windows works with modern hardware and cloud services. Highlights include new and significantly changed Windows features such as:
- A new user experience, highlighted by a reworked Start menu and Settings app
- New ways to arrange windows on the screen for smart multitasking
- Significant upgrades to hardware-based security
- A refined experience for docking portable PCs
- An all-new Microsoft Store, with options to securely download Windows desktop apps
- A Widgets pane that allows quick access to news and information
- New ways to work with alternative forms of input, including pen, touch, and voice
- A new option, Windows 365, that runs Windows 11 as a Cloud PC, accessible from anywhere
Table of contents
Part I Windows essentials
Chapter 1 Everything you need to know about Windows 11
Chapter 2 Setting up a new Windows 11 PC
Chapter 3 Using Windows 11
Chapter 4 Personalizing Windows 11
Chapter 5 Installing and configuring apps
Chapter 6 Using and managing built-in Windows apps
Chapter 7 Using Microsoft Edge
Chapter 8 Managing local and cloud storage
Part II Managing Windows 11
Chapter 9 Using File Explorer
Chapter 10 Managing user accounts, passwords, and credentials
Chapter 11 Configuring Windows networks
Chapter 12 Windows security and privacy
Chapter 13 Managing hardware and devices
Chapter 14 Performance and power management
Chapter 15 Troubleshooting, backup, and recovery
Part III For IT professionals and Windows experts
Chapter 16 Windows Terminal, PowerShell, and other advanced management tools
Chapter 17 Running Windows 11 in a virtual machine or in the cloud
Chapter 18 Using Android and Linux on Windows 11
Chapter 19 Managing Windows PCs in the enterprise
Part IV Appendixes
Appendix A Windows 11 editions and licensing options
Appendix B The Windows Insider Program
Appendix C Help and support resources
Author bios
Ed Bott is an award-winning author and technology journalist who has been researching and writing about Microsoft Windows and PC technology, in print and on the Internet, for more than two decades. Much of that work has appeared in The Ed Bott Report on ZDNet (zdnet.com/blog/bott), where his signature hands-on advice columns and buying recommendations have been a fixture through at least a half-dozen Windows versions. Ed has written more than 30 books, all on Windows and Microsoft Office, which have been translated into dozens of languages and read worldwide.
You can catch up with Ed's latest opinions and get hands-on advice in his newsletter, Ed Bott's READ ME; for details, visit edbott.com/newsletter. You can also connect with him on Twitter (@edbott) and on the open source Mastodon network (mastodon.social/@edbott). Ed and his wife, Judy, live in Atlanta, Georgia. They are currently between dogs.