Windows 10 Features VS Windows 8.1

Windows 10 VS Windows 8.1

Using Windows 10 almost from day of released. I have discovered little changes and feature
that Microsoft hasn't yet discussed . Let's dive straight in with favorite secret features of
Windows 10.

"Home" tab in Explorer now

In the last few version of windows, opening My Computer or a new Explorer window
would show you your computer's various storage locations and shortcuts to default folders
like Documents and My Pictures. In Windows 10, you now end up in a new view called
Home, which shows Favorites, Frequent Folders, and Recent Files. Take loo at the 
screen shot below and you'll see what i mean.

Windows 10 This PC Home

Favorites seems to be where Documents or My Pictures should appear. I don't know the
 math behind the Frequent Folders, but it looks like just tracks which folders I have 
opened the most times. Recent Files is like the Recent Places feature That premiered in
Windows Vista, but just for files.

I assume that folders can be added to the Favorites section, but I've not yet worked
out how to do it. (To be honest, the more advances features of Explorer, lie Libraries, are
still pretty hard to penetrate).

"This PC" is still available from the left-hand menu if you want to manage your various storage locations/default folders. I like the new Home tab a lot.

Windows 10 Home Tab

  
Recycle Bin on the task bar

Rather than having to take around Explorer or minimize everything and find the Recycle
Bin icon on Dextop, in Windows 10 you can now add the Recycle Bin to both
the task bar and the Start menu. Yes, that is the sound of many brains exploding as they catastrophically realize the enormity of this change.

Recycle Bin at Task Bar and Start Menu

Windows 10 Start menu is re-sizable

This feature is much odd one. You can make the Windows 10 Start menu as tall or as wide as you
like. If you want to have a Start menu that takes up the entire left side of your screen, or a narrow
strip across the task bar, the that's show now possible. The task bar itself is also re sizable, which means you can do weird stuff this:

Re sizable Windows 10

Cortana is coming to Windows 10

Search with Cortana also coming in Windows 10 new features. There is a lot of references to Cortana in windows 10 Technical Preview, there is even a

Windows.Cortana .dll       just sitting in System32 directory.

You also get lot of Cortana-related hits if you search "Cortana "  within the Registry Editor.

I'm hopefully see Cortana in the next beta of Windows 10. None of this is say that
Cortana is definitely coming to Windows 10.

Windows 10 Cortana

Toasts Notification in Windows 10

There are some pretty toasts/notifications that pop up in the top right corner of the screen.
These notification appear to replace the speech bubble s that used to pop out of the system tray
(this task bar , unless you are one of those heathens who has moved the task bar to a non-standard location).You can see Example Image below, but there are similar toasts for successful uploads to
Drop-box and similar activities.

It seems that notification or toasts are configures though the same interface that Metro notification used in Windows 8/8.1 i.e PC settings (see below).

Windows 10 Toast Notification

Windows 10 Toast Notification

The new Notification Tray might only be coming soon in Metro interface.