A) Taskbar
B) How to start a program
C) What is a window
D) How to move from program to program
E) Features of menus that allow you to control
things
F) How to turn off computer
G) Window’s Help files
II)
Taskbar
A) Runs across bottom of screen
B) Time is on right of bar and Start is
on left
C) Contains icons that allow you to do
work on computer
D) Taskbar may be hidden except when
arrow is over it
E) To make it be there all the time, which is a good idea if you are a beginner—Start > Settings > Taskbar > unclick Autohide
III)
Starting a program
A) Click Start button at left
side of Taskbar
B)
Brings
up a series of cascading menus
C)
Programs
> Folders > Subfolders
D) Folders within folders—move
around menu then click to open the program you want
IV)
Basic ingredients of all windows programs
A) Every program opens up in
its own window
B)
Title
bar
1) Blue area at top of window
2) Has title of program
occurring in the window
3) Has a small icon that stands for the
program—every program has its own unique icon—even software that you
install—icons represent programs
C) Windows can be moved
1) To move window put mouse
arrow in title bar and drag
2) As you move it, it
becomes a grey ghost
3) Let up mouse button to
drop into new place
D) Windows can be made smaller and larger
1) Minimize button (-) sign
in upper right-hand corner
2) Program is stored on the taskbar—can have dozens
of program buttons on taskbar
3) Push the button with the program’s name and its
icon on the taskbar and it will enlarge
E) Windows can be made to fill up the whole
screen—hit maximize button (square) in upper right corner
F) Windows can be restored to not being in full
screen view (“normal” size)—it’s the icon in upper right-hand corner with two
boxes
G) Windows can be made to be any size you want by
pulling mouse over edge to become two-headed arrow—then drag and drop into new
place
H) Windows can be closed
1) Click the “x” button in the upper right-hand
corner on the title bar
2) Once closed no longer occupying memory, which
means you’re making additional memory available—things will run smoothly if
they were getting choppy
V)
Moving from window to window
A) Example of a way to use
this—could open a window that lets you play an audio CD while playing solitaire
B)
You
have a foreground (active) window and a background (inactive) window—foreground
window usually has a blue line across the top and background window is usually
greyed out
C)
Three
ways to move between windows
1)
Click
a program’s button on taskbar to bring up the program you want to use
2)
Click
on the window you want to move to
3)
Toggle
from one window to another—hold down the ALT key and hit the TAB key—a box will
come up—lift the TAB key when the grey box is around the icon of the window you
want to make active
VI)
Feature of menus that allow you to control them
A) Menus appear in grey bar
right under task bar (menu bar)
B)
Click
on one of menus—something that is referred to as a drop down menu will appear
C)
There
is a menu underlined on each menu word—push ALT and the letter and it will be a
way of choosing that command
D) Put the mouse arrow over the
command you want and click it
E)
Undo
command—click Edit on menu bar—in many programs Undo will appear on drop down
menu—puts things back the way they were before your last action
F)
Click
file menu and you will find Print, Save and Exit commands
G) Ellipses—means a dialog box
will come up instead of having something occur automatically-- you will be able
to choose what you want to happen and click OK (click cancel if you change your
mind)
H)
Options
means “Here’s how I fix software up to suit my purposes”)—3 ways to choose—and
then click OK to make it so
1)
Empty
circle—you can click in one—forces you choose only one option
2)
Boxes
into which you can type numbers or words
3)
Check
boxes that allow you to choose more than one option
VII)
Closing your computer
A)
Close
every window, including those stored on your taskbar, before you close
computer—can click X in right-hand corner or go File > Exit on menu bar)
B)
Go
to Start button on taskbar and choose Shut Down (either click in circles next
to it or use tab key to move to it)
C)
If
you’re having a problem and need to clear and start over, choose “Restart”
instead of “Shut down”—your computer will shut partially down and then come
immediately on again
VIII)
Windows Help System
A) How to access
1) Press F1 key
2) Help menu—click Help on menu bar and will get
commands Windows has put in for the program you’re using
B)
Help
displays in three ways
1)
Selecting
a topic (Contents tab)
2)
Selecting
an index (Index tab)
3)
Searching
for specific terms (Search tab)
C)
Click
a topic or subtopic and answer will occur on right side of screen
D) Help is step-by-step recipe
style
E)
Hot
words—if you click on a colored word, another screen (called a pop-up window)
will show up—click background to make the pop-up window disappear
F)
To
print instructions, Right-click and choose Print
G) Some systems have Web Help
command to help you get information off Internet
H)
First
time you use help you might get the Find setup wizard—would recommend you leave
the selection already chosen for you and then choose Next