Toshiba S55-B5289 Satellite L40/L50/L70/S40/S50/S70-B Series Windows 8.1 User' - Page 100
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100 Exploring Your Computer's Features Windows® Store Notification area The notification area displays icons of tasks or programs that run continuously in the background and displays notifications. To learn more about each task, position the pointer over the icon for a few moments and a short description of the task appears. Typical tasks in the notification area are Current time, Power usage mode, network connectivity status, and speaker volume. To activate a specific task, click or touch the appropriate notification area icon. Notifications There are many types of notifications you can employ to help you with the many tasks you perform every day. User experience notifications can be set for toast, tile, badge, and raw notifications. Toast notifications-Designed for time-sensitive delivery of personalized content, such as an instant message from a friend. Tile notifications-Used by applications that are not currently running with an at-a-glance characteristic, giving you a quick preview of the subject line of your latest email or the current weather conditions. Badge notifications-A specialized type of tile notification (shown on the Start screen tile) using glyphs to indicate the number of applications that have updates available or the status of a running application. Raw notifications-These run a background task on behalf of an application while that application is not running in order to make available the latest content, such as an online newspaper. Windows® Store Although many applications will be pre-installed or built-in to your computer, you will also have the ability to download many other applications with a touch or the click of your mouse. While in the Desktop screen, locate the Windows® Store ( ) icon in the taskbar.