There is a slew of options in this section, and once you get used to accessing them in the Action Center, you'll never go hunting around in settings or control panel again for those settings. This portion is collapsible, and you can choose to only show four items (giving you more room for notification, or all your quick action buttons.

The bottom section has quick-action buttons, for setting the brightness of your monitor, or locking the rotation of your device, or toggling Airplane Mode on or off. So what does the Action Center do and what is it good for? Unlike war (which is allegedly good for absolutely nothing), Action Center is pretty handy.

To exit out of the Action Center either tap anywhere else on the screen or hit Escape or even just Windows Key + a again. So much so that I find myself reaching for the screen on my MacBook Pro without even thinking about it! If, however, you don't have a touch screen you can alternately use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + a. Windows 10, much like Windows 8, shines on touch screen devices. Accessing the Action Center is simple: if you have a touch screen device simply swipe your finger in from the right edge of your display. The Action Center is an overlay that swipes in from the right side of the screen. On top of that, Windows 10 has some new tricks up its sleeve, and one of those is the new Action Center, which has replaced the much less functional Charms Bar from Windows 8. It takes a lot of its design cues from Windows 8, but puts back so many of the features that people missed in Windows 7. That's a killer deal, and I honestly believe this is Microsoft's best operating system yet. Windows 10 has been on the market for several months now, and for a few more months, it's available as a free upgrade to anybody with a licensed version of Windows 7 or newer. This blog post is a continuation of my series I'm writing about the new features in Windows 10.

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