Use the Stopwatch in Windows 10

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Steps

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    The first thing we need to do is click the lower-left corner of the screen to open up the start menu
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    When the start menu opens, we need to find "Alarms & Clock"
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    If we don't have Alarms & Clock pinned in the start menu, we can click "All apps"
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    We can locate the application in "All apps".
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    We click "Alarms & Clock"
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    We will need to wait for the application to open.
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    When Alarms & Clock opens, we need to click the "Stopwatch" tab
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    In the "Stopwatch" section, we can start the stopwatch by clicking "Start"
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    Let's go ahead and click it.
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    Now, we can set the laps by clicking the "Laps / Splits" flag icon
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    In this video, the icon is clicked at 10 seconds.
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    We click the flag icon again
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    We can also stop the stopwatch by clicking the "Pause" button
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    We can also click the button with two arrows
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    This will increase the size of the stopwatch.
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    We click the two arrows again to decrease the size of the stopwatch
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    To reset the paused stopwatch, we need to simply click the "Reset" button
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Recent edits by: Alexander Avdeev, Lukward Thomason

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