To open the Activities Overview, you can either:

In the **Favorites** submenu, a few shortcuts allow you to launch the most frequently used applications:

Specify an SSH or SFTP server in the **Server address** field at the bottom of the right pane. For example:

There are 2 ways of shutting down Tails.

In Tails, an administration password (also called *root password* or *amnesia password*) is required to perform system administration tasks. For example:

You can use the Welcome Screen to specify startup options that alter some of the basic functioning of Tails.

To open the *Persistent* folder:

When the Pidgin Internet Messenger feature is turned on, all the configuration files of the [[*Pidgin* internet messenger|doc/anonymous_internet/pidgin]] are saved in the Persistent Storage:

When the SSH Client feature is turned on, all the files related to the Secure Shell (SSH) client are saved in the Persistent Storage:

For example, having the following files in the *Dotfiles* folder:

Produces the following result in the *Home* folder:

The automatic upgrade is impossible for technical reasons (not enough memory, not enough free space on the USB stick, and so on). For example, if you get the following error message:

This is how Tails looks when run in a virtual machine on a Debian host.

[*Electrum*](https://electrum.org/) is a [[!wikipedia Bitcoin]] client that is particularly suited to the context of Tails because:

[OTR (Off-the-Record)](https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/) encryption allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:

To change the security level:

A new device appears in the list of storage devices. Click on it.

In the **Format Disk** dialog:

Now the schema of the partitions in the middle of the screen shows an empty device:

In the **Create Partition** screen: