The first step involves using the Settings charm in the Charms bar to see which devices Windows 8.1 has already discovered and added to your system. This means Windows 8.1 might be able to find and install all your computer peripherals automatically, without you needing to do anything at all! Wouldn’t that be nice? Windows 8.1 includes an auto-discovery feature that scans for all devices connected to your PC or your network, detecting and connecting to printers, TVs, Xbox systems, and more. Read on to finish preparing your Windows 8.1 PC so you can get on with all the fun stuff you want to do. One other important aspect to preparing your PC involves knowing what to do if your computer begins behaving badly and you need to remove system changes or return to the way you’d previously configured it. In addition to setting up your devices to work with Windows 8.1, you can add new wireless connections and choose a power management setting that helps you conserve energy without compromising performance power. You can also set up devices that Windows 8.1 doesn’t recognize right off the bat. When you plug in a printer to your Windows 8.1 PC, the operating system automatically detects the printer and installs the necessary drivers. Put simply: A few UI changes have occurred, but everything basically works as before. That’s because the content is streaming from the PC, not handing off playback as with Play On Xbox.
Play, like Play To before it, remains mostly “dumb” in that it requires your PC to stay awake and on for the playback to work. If the device is present, you’re good to go. This happens in PC Settings, as before, but with the changes in 8.1, you’ll need to do some extra digging, so navigate to PC & Devices and then Devices. Fortunately, it’s still pretty obvious.įirst, you must ensure that the device you want to use for playback is connected to your PC. In Windows 8.1, Microsoft has rebranded Play To as Play and has changed the way you access this functionality from the Devices charm and pane. Windows 8.1 lets you easily prepare your PC and get things up and running. The potential for connecting is almost limitless. We connect our phones and MP3 players and cameras to our PCs and tablets we connect through the Web with computers we never see we can access the file we left at home through the Web thanks to SkyDrive. We live in an age of connected everything. This chapter helps you get your computer ready to use with the following tasks:
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