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Jan's Working with Windows 10:

Windows Basics: Summary

In Windows Basics you have learned the basics of how to get around in Windows. You have started and shut down your computer. You have learned the parts of the user interface and of a window. You have seen how Windows contains multiple methods to accomplish tasks - mouse, keyboard, touch. You have accessed Help for Windows and for applications. You used Windows Search to find apps and settings and to search the web. You found a way to view pages that have been retired! You manipulated windows - up, down, and all around. When it all sinks in a bit, you'll be ready for the mysteries of Files and Folders, your next project.

Skills Covered - by lesson

Turn on your computer and log on to start Windows

Shut down Windows
Restart Windows

Control Pointer

Move pointer on the screen
Click, double-click, right click, and drag
Use Classic and Modern styles for dialogs
Adjust mouse settings: check box, slide control, command button

Move, resize, minimize, maximize, and restore a window with pointing device
Move window with keyboard
Resize a window

Open a context-sensitive menu
What is on some of the context menus

Dialogs: Date and Time

Show screen tips
See the two styles of dialogs
Use the different types of input in dialogs:
slide switch, command button, drop list, palette of choices, spin box, check box
Change the time and date
Close a dialog

Dialogs: Personalization

Use a Modern style dialog - Personalization
Customize the look of Windows:
    Background
    Colors
    Lock Screen
    Themes
    Start
Apply theme to return to the default Personalization settings
Use various inputs: drop list, palette of choices, command button, slide switch, text box

Dialogs: Screen Saver

Search for a dialog
Use a classic style dialog (Screen Saver)
Use various inputs: text box, drop list, spin box, slide, button, list box, option buttons, check box

Windows Help: Finding Help for Windows 10

Find Help for Windows 10
Navigate to an article
Navigate inside an article
Use the Back button to return to a previous page

Windows Help: Search Help

Use keywords to search Help
Use 'Find on this page'
Recognize and reveal hidden text

Windows Help: Demos

Use Windows Search to find an app
Navigate a multimedia demo
Review basic skills and information

Windows Help: Application Help

Open an application from the Start menu
Find Help for an application
Use Archive.org's WayBackMachine to view web pages that are no longer available otherwise.
Dock windows to work in an application with Help remaining open
Create a drawing with Paint's tools

Skills in Exercises

Exercise Win1-1

Practice using the mouse to:
   click
   double-click
   drag
Select options from different types of controls, like radio buttons, check boxes, slides

Exercise Win1-2

Use Windows Search to open a program
Find Help for Calculator

Exercise Win1-3

Manage multiple windows by tiling and cascading
Rotate through open windows with ALT + TAB

Important Terms

Do you know these? The Glossary contains definitions.

app or application

context-sensitive

diagonal resize

Display Settings

horizontal resize

inactive window

notification area

pointing device

unavailable command

vertical resize

virtual desktop

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