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Using touch gestures

Using touch gestures

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Using touch gestures

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- [Instructor] One of the things I keep forgetting about my laptop touch screen is that it's a touch screen. I can use various gestures in Windows to manipulate items on the screen, and some of these tricks work on the touchpad as well. For example, I can use my finger to drag around this image, this map, on the touch screen. Windows also lets you zoom in and zoom out just as you would on a smartphone. So you pinch your fingers to zoom out or you spread your fingers to zoom in. To show the desktop, use three fingers and swipe down from the top of the screen and the window is minimized. Swipe up and the window is restored. That's three fingers swiping up. Here's the desktop. I'm going to long press, press and hold, and release. And you see a shortcut menu. There's the shortcut menu. The equivalent of right-clicking the mouse. This operation doesn't always work with many apps, but it does work on the desktop. To switch…

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