10 amazing things you can do on Windows 10 without programs

 

Of course, after buying a new computer or installing Windows, the first thing we do is install the programs we used to use from various categories, browsers, media programs, and others. While software opens up space to take advantage of the capabilities of the computer to meet our needs, we cannot ignore the fact that installing too many programs has disadvantages on storage space, performance, and also the security of the computer. Fortunately, in Windows 10, with every new major update that Microsoft releases, the need to install programs gets less and less. Thanks to constant changes, the most popular operating system has become a kind of "self-sufficiency" to meet most needs without installing software. This article is proof of that, as below we review several things you can do on Windows 10 without any programs.

 

 

1- Remove background from photos

 

After the Fall Creators Update, which was launched in 2017, a new tool appeared in Windows 10 called Magic select, and it is part of the Paint 3D application that is installed by default on the system. The purpose of the tool is to help users extract elements from one image to add to another image.

 

Not only does it extract objects, but you can also use it to remove background from images — without Photoshop and the like. Simply put, if you have an image with a specific element and you want to isolate it and add it to a new background, or even leave the background transparent, all you have to do is open the Paint 3D application, then activate the Magic select tool and select the element to be isolated. Upon completion, you copy the element and add it to a new page on the application. In the last step, you save this page in PNG format with the Transparency option activated. In the end, you will get a new image in which only this element that you selected appears, and you can easily add it to another background.

 

2- Convert image formats

 

What are the most specialized programs for converting image formats, which we often need when sharing images on the Internet, as some sites refuse to receive all types of images and are limited to specific formats only? If you've been in this situation before, or for any reason want to change the format of a particular image, instead of downloading external software, you can rely on the Paint tool in Windows — believe it or not! This tool contains a simple trick that allows you to switch between image formats quite easily, in addition to its distinction of not affecting the quality of images after changing their formats.

 

All that is required is to display the image in the Paint tool, then click on File and choose the Save As an option to open a new window that contains a list called Save as type, so you open it to find a group of common image file formats such as PNG, JPEG, TIFF and HEIC, and you can choose any format you want and save the image on the computer. This way you will get two copies of the same image but in different formats. And if you check the details of each version, you will discover that the format conversion process did not affect the quality, unlike the programs dedicated to that task.

 

3- Add modifications to the videos

 

Windows has a huge number of video editing programs, but most of them are paid programs because they are professional and include a huge package of editing options such as Adobe Premiere and Vegas Pro. But if your goal is to make simple edits to a video, there is no need to buy or download third-party software because Windows 10 already has a tool called Video Editor which is part of the Photos app for viewing photos.

 

This tool offers a wide range of "basic options" for editing videos, and what distinguishes it most is the ease of use. Even if you are a novice user who does not know anything about montage, you will deal with the tool completely like a professional. We have already used the tool in many explanations, including the method of cutting and cutting a part of the video, the method of adding music to the video, the method of removing the sound from the video, and it also helps you to rotate the upside-down video easily, or even write text on the video, or add filters to the video, such as those that you find for pictures, or use them in merging more than one video together into one video.

 

The Video Editor tool can be accessed through the Photos application or through the standalone application in the Start menu, and once it is launched, you add the video that you want to edit, or you can start making a distinctive video from a group of photos.

 

4- Display the FPS rate while playing

 

If you are a person interested in the world of video games or a "gamer", then you know very well about FPS or the number of frames per second, and if you do not know, it is in short a measure of the quality of graphics in video games, so that whenever this rate is 60 or higher, the graphics, effects, and movement in the game Better and smoother, but if therate drops to 30 or 20, this is an indication that your device, specifically the graphics card, is not sufficiently efficient to run the game, and you have two options to continue playing the game: either reduce the graphics settings or upgrade the components.

 

The important thing now is how do we know the FPS rate while playing a game to evaluate performance? There are many programs for this purpose specifically, the most prominent of which is a program called Fraps, and while almost all of them are free programs, Windows 10 users need them. The Game Bar feature in Windows 10 already allows you to display the FPS counter in games, in addition to displaying computer resource consumption percentages in real-time. All that is required is to click on the Win key and then the letter G while playing, after which you will get a set of tools, including Performance, which displays the performance of the computer in the game.

 

5- Make the computer a router

 

After the Anniversary Update for Windows 10, a feature called Mobile hotspot appeared, which eliminates the user from using programs to convert the computer into a wireless router so that the Internet connection (wired or wireless) can be broadcast via a new Wi-Fi network with a different name and password and connect other devices wirelessly to the computer instead of the router directly. All you have to do is open the Settings app, then Network & Internet, and from the side menu, click on Mobile hotspot, and here you will activate the Share my Internet option, then select the type of connection you want to share. And then press the Edit button to modify the name and password for the Wi-Fi point.

 

6- Know the temperature of the components of the device

 

Monitoring the temperature of the computer and its components is an essential step in preserving it from damage and avoiding the burning of its hardware. That is why there are many free programs that help to know the temperature of each piece of the computer and warn you when the maximum temperature that the components can handle is exceeded. But recently, Microsoft has paid attention to the demands of users to provide a basic method in Windows 10 that does the same thing, that is, it clearly shows the temperature of the computer components.

 

Indeed, the Task Manager tool can now be used, but only to monitor the temperature of the graphics card, whether integrated or external. If you go to the Performance section, then GPU, you will find an actual display of the graphics card temperature under GPU Temperature. But Microsoft says that it will add more temperature statistics in the future, and this is certainly very important as displaying the temperature of the processor and hard drive in the Task Manager tool is a great feature and completely replaces temperature monitoring programs such as HWMonitor and Speccy.

 

7- Knowing the large files on the hard drive

 

Windows already has tools that help you discover what is taking up too much space on your hard drive or SSD, so it can be easier for you to free up more space for more important files if you find that there are unnecessary large files on your computer.

 

Many programs such as WizTree and WinDirStat analyze the contents of the hard drive and categorize files and folders and arrange them according to size, but there is no need to use them because Windows 10 does the same thing. All that is required is to open the Settings application, then System, and on the Storage page, click on the View storage usage on other drives option, then select the partition and wait for its contents to be analyzed.

 

After completion, you will get a list of different categories, each category contains a group of large files that belong to it, such as video files, music files, games, programs...etc. You can also delete any item with one click from the same page. In the end, after deleting some of these files, you will have enough free space to store more new files without the need to upgrade the hard drive.

 

8- Run programs in isolation

 

Many times we need to install and run some programs in isolation, meaning using them on a fake system away from the main operating system installed on the computer, thus ensuring that if the program contains viruses or malware, it will not affect the device, and this process is known as sandboxing and has used There are many, but the methods available to do this process were either by using Sandboxie or SHADE Sandbox or Virtual Machines such as VirtualBox or VMware to install a virtual system. However, in recent versions of Windows 10, there is a Windows Sandbox feature to eliminate the need to use any of these programs.

 

You can activate the new Windows Sandbox feature in Windows 10 through the Windows Features window. And then when you want to create a dummy system as a test field for programs and so on, all you have to do is run the feature from the Start menu and in a few minutes, a dummy system of Windows 10 will be created where you can do whatever you want freely and in isolation from the basic system.

 

9- Changing the image sizes

 

Whether you are a graphic designer, blogger, or even just a person who shares posts on social media, you will always need to resize images, and what is meant here is to change the dimensions or measurements of the image. Fortunately, many programs and tools are available that perform this function easily and to the fullest, but as usual, they are not needed in Windows 10, where you can take advantage of the photo editing tools integrated with the Photos application, change image sizes and control their quality as well.

 

All you have to do is open the image to be modified and press the (…) button on the far right, and from the menu, click on the “Resize” option to display a pop-up window containing a set of pre-configured measurements, you can choose from them or click on “Define custom dimensions” to specify measurements Specific in terms of height and width, in addition to controlling the image quality compression ratio while adjusting the measurements through the Quality slider. After completion, click Save resized copy to save a new copy of the image.

 

10- Converting units and currencies

 

Whether you want to convert between the currency of your country and another country or convert between units of measurement, speed, and length, convert 123 has always been the most suitable option for that, as it is free, small in size, and easy to use on any computer. But of course, a simple task like this will not require the installation of external programs to be completed. In Windows 10, the calculator application can be relied upon to do the job perfectly. The app is definitely not intended for direct calculations, if you press the (☰) button you will get a menu with a unit converter to quickly convert currency rates, distance, temperature, area, and more.