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Getting Started with Windows 7Practical
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Objectives
– Personalize the Windows 7 desktop
– Add and remove gadgets
– Add shortcuts
– Move between windows and customize the taskbar
– Resize, move, and scroll windows
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Objectives
– Use Windows Explorer and create folders
– Move and rename folders and copy files
– Move, rename, and delete files
– Compress files and use the address bar
– Describe and find files and folders
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Objectives
– Creating backup copies of your work
– Using libraries to organize files
– Viewing pictures from digital cameras
– Capture screen with Snipping Tool
– Organize files
– Search and preview files
– Delete and restore files
– Exiting Windows
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Introduction
Resize, move, and scroll windows
Personalize the desktop and
customize the taskbar
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Introduction
Find files and folders
Move, rename, and delete files
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Skill 1: Personalize the Windows 7 Desktop
Windows Explorer button
Close button
Window a rectangular box that displays programs, files, and folders
ScreenTipa small note that describes a screen element
Graphical user interface (GUI)Interface that uses graphics or pictures to represent commands and actions
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Skill 1: Personalize the Windows 7 Desktop
Shortcut menulists context-sensitive commands
Menua list of commands within a category which you can choose by
Desktop the working area of the Windows 7 screen
Clickpress the left mouse button once
Operating systemsoftware that controls the hardware in your computer
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Skill 1: Personalize the Windows 7 Desktop
Screen saveran animation that displays on your screen after a set period of computer inactivity
Screen Saver Settings
Dialog boxa window that displays information or gives choices about a specific operation
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Skill 1: Personalize the Windows 7 Desktop
Computer icon
Third Architecture thumbnail
Control Panel icon
Scroll bar up arrow
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Skill 2: Add and Remove Gadgets
Gadgeta dynamic program that can be moved anywhere on your screen
Gadgets gallery
Gadget controla four-button tool set used to modify gadgets
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Skill 2: Add and Remove Gadgets
Slide Show gadget inserted and moved
Dragmove the mouse while holdingdown the left mouse button, then release at the appropriate time
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Skill 2: Add and Remove Gadgets
Start menugives you access to all the programs on your computer
All Programs
Start Button
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Skill 2: Add and Remove Gadgets
WordPad as the active window—
the window in which typing or clicking
occurs
Windows shown
overlapping with desktop
behind
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Skill 3: Add Shortcuts
Windows repositioned so
that desktop icons show
Calculator added to pinned items
Shortcut an iconlinked to another file or program that opensthe file or program
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Skill 3: Add Shortcuts
Desktop (create shortcut)
command
Send to submenu
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Skill 3: Add Shortcuts
Snipping Tool in Accessories folder
Snipping Tool icon pinned to
taskbar
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Skill 3: Add Shortcuts
Snip saved to desktop with a proper file name as a JPEG file
Desktop selected
File name
JPEG file
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Skill 4: Move Between Windows and Customize the Taskbar
WordPad maximized
Maximize button changes to Restore Down button
Maximizeenlarge a window to occupy the entire screen
Minimizereduce a window to a button on the taskbar without actually closing it
Restorereduce a window to the size it was before being maximized
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Skill 4: Move Between Windows and Customize the Taskbar
Transparent windows available
(only if AERO feature is enabled)
Show desktop button
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Skill 4: Move Between Windows and Customize the Taskbar
Switching windows using
Alt + Tab
Calculator is active window
Jump listrelated files or commands you might want to jump to
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Skill 4: Move Between Windows and Customize the Taskbar
Taskbar displays on right side of
screen
Shakemove a window back and forth quickly to open or close all other windows
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Skill 5: Resize, Move, and Scroll Windows
Diagonal Resize pointer
Navigation pane (left side of window)
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Skill 5: Resize, Move, and Scroll Windows
Horizontal scroll
Scroll boxprovides a visual indication of your location in the window
Vertical scroll bar
Scroll baradded to a window whenever it contains more content than it can display
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Skill 5: Resize, Move, and Scroll Windows
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Skill 5: Resize, Move, and Scroll Windows
Snip 1 inserted
Your own name typed into WordPad
Snip 2 inserted
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Skill 6: Use Windows Explorer and Create Folders
Open/close arrow
Details pane
Windows Explorer a program used to create and manage folders, and to copy, move, sort and delete files
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Skill 6: Use Windows Explorer and Create Folders
USB flash drive (name will vary)
Files on USB drive would display here.
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Skill 6: Use Windows Explorer and Create Folders
New folder button
New folder in edit mode—a mode which allows you to change the name
of a file or folder
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Skill 6: Use Windows Explorer and Create Folders
Name column heading Resize pointer
The arrow in the Name column heading points up when the folders are displayed in ascending order (a to z) and points down when the folders are displayed in descendingorder (z to a).
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Skill 7: Move and Rename Folders and Copy Files
Student files on CD are displayed
USB Flash Drive Opened
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Skill 7: Move and Rename Folders and Copy Files
Folder copied and renamed
Files and folders can be copied by selecting, then dragging the file or folder directly on top of any other
folder in the navigation pane.
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Skill 7: Move and Rename Folders and Copy Files
Folders are listed before files.
Two files copied, then
pasted
Clipboarda temporary storage area for content that is cut or copied
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Skill 7: Move and Rename Folders and Copy Files
Student files copied to the
Windows 7 folder
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Skill 8: Move, Rename, and Delete Files
Files sorted by file type
Word filesWindows 7 folders
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Skill 8: Move, Rename, and Delete Files
All Word documents moved to the Documents of
Firstname Lastname folder
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Skill 8: Move, Rename, and Delete Files
Views button arrowRenamed file
Picture files moved into Pictures of Firstname
Lastname Folder
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Skill 8: Move, Rename, and Delete Files
Delete File message box
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Skill 9: Compress Files and Use the Address Bar
Selected files
File size of selected files
Compressreduce the file size of one or more files into a single file
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Skill 9: Compress Files and Use the Address Bar
Compressed file created and
named
Total file size
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Skill 9: Compress Files and Use the Address Bar
Compressed file sizes
Extract all files button
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Skill 9: Compress Files and Use the Address Bar
Address bar
All folders—including the compressed folder—display in a
menu.
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Skill 10: Explore Your Computer Using Folder Windows
DesktopThe working area of your computer.
Folder windowA Windows Vista feature that enables you to navigate to your computer’s files and folders.
Dialog boxA box where you decide which action the computer should take or select a setting provided in the dialog box.
FoldersThe containers that hold files, computer programs, and other folders.
Click the Start button and from the Start menu, click Documents.
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Skill 10: Explore Your Computer Using Folder Windows
Parts of a Folder Window
Name Function
Address bar Displays the name of the folder window and the opened folders separated by arrows.
Folders list Displays an expandable list of all of the computer’s folders.
Content pane Displays the contents of the current folder.
Back and Forward buttons
Moves forward or backward through your recently viewed folders.
Scroll box Moves your view within a winder to display objects that are in the windows, but were not previously visible.
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Skill 10: Explore Your Computer Using Folder Windows
In the Folders list, click Computer.
Click Computer, open your CD/DVD tray, and then insert the student CD. When the AutoPlay dialog box displays, click Close. Double-click the Student CD icon.
IconA graphic representation of a file, folder, or computer drive.
ToolbarA row of small buttons that activate commands.
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Skill 10: Explore Your Computer Using Folder Windows
Click the Views button several times to change the icons in Content pane.
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Skill 11: Describe and Find Files and Folders
Tags assigned to other files in the folder Tags separated
by semicolons
Details pane
Tagscustom file properties that help you find and organize files
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Skill 11: Describe and Find Files and Folders
Properties dialog box Details tab
Description properties
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Skill 11: Describe and Find Files and Folders
Initial search results show only files that contains LSS in the
file name.
Search box
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Skill 11: Describe and Find Files and Folders
Saved search folder
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Skills 12: Create Backup Copies of Your Work
Zipped archive of Windows 7 folder
Active folder is
your storage device
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Skills 12: Create Backup Copies of Your Work
Backup file copied to another drive
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Skills 13: Use Libraries to Organize Files
Windows 7 folder on your storage device
Local hard drive
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Skills 13: Use Libraries to Organize Files
The four default Windows libraries
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Skills 13: Use Libraries to Organize Files
Documents Library Locations dialog box, showing two locations
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Skills 13: Use Libraries to Organize Files
Windows 7 folder added to the Documents
library
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Skills 13: Use Libraries to Organize Files
Class Work library is empty
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Skills 13: Use Libraries to Organize Files
Folder added to Class Work
library
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Skills 14: Capture a Screen with the Snipping Tool
Introduction folder contents
Introduction folder in the Folder List
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Skills 14: Capture a Screen with the Snipping Tool
Capture types
Click Start button, point to All Programs, click Accessories folder, and click Snipping Tool to initiate Snipping Tool program.
Snipping ToolProgram used to create four types of screen captures.
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Skills 14: Capture a Screen with the Snipping Tool
Snipping Tool Screen Capture Types
Type Description
Free-form Snip Captures an area drawn with your mouse.
Rectangular Snip Captures a rectangular region drawn with your mouse.
Window Snip Captures the window clicked on with your mouse.
Full-screen Snip Captures the entire screen including the taskbar.
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Skills 14: Capture a Screen with the Snipping Tool
Snipping Tool window
Snipping Tool toolbar
Screen capture
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Skills 14: Capture a Screen with the Snipping Tool
Pen button
Circled file name using Pen
Highlighter buttonClick Eraser buttonto erase pen drawing or highlighting.
Highlighted folder name using Highlighter
Save Snip button
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Skills 14: Capture a Screen with the Snipping Tool
Windows Photo Gallery after saving Snip
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Skills 14: Capture a Screen with the Snipping Tool
Clear Fit picture to frame check box.
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Skills 15: Organize Files
Organizing files and folders requires descriptive names for files and folders, and content of folders should be of similar purpose.
Organize button
New folder
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Skills 15: Organize Files
Copy commandDuplicates a selection and stores it in Clipboard.
ClipboardStorage area in RAM that holds copied selections.
Paste commandPlaces items stored in Clipboard into a document or folder.
Files copied from student data files
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Skills 15: Organize Files
Content pane
Folder list
Files can be dragged into folders.
Move to ScreenTipDouble-click folder to display contents.
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Skills 15: Organize Files
Click the Delete command on the Organize menu to delete folders.
New folder
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Skills 15: Organize Files
Cut CommandMoves selected item from its location to Clipboard.
Hold down Shift button when clicking on each file to select more than one file.
Files moved to Site Photos folder
Site Photos folder
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Skills 15: Organize Files
Click Views button arrow and then click Extra Large Icons.
Files renamed
Extra large icons
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Skills 16: Search and Preview Files
Student data files
Folder saved to Documents folder and renamed
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Skills 16: Search and Preview Files
Windows Flip 3DDisplays stacked preview of each open window and flips windows through arrow keys.
Quick Launch Toolbar
Switch between windows button
Press the arrow keys to flip through the stack.
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Skills 16: Search and Preview Files
Preview pane
Shortcut menu displayed by right-clicking selected text
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Skills 16: Search and Preview Files
All programs and files that match the typed text display.
Search box
Your files will differ
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Skills 16: Search and Preview Files
Details paneFile selected
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Skills 16: Search and Preview Files
When a specific tag is selected, only files with that tag will be listed in Content pane.
Tags column header
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Skills 17: Delete and Restore Files
Recycle BinContainer that stores files to be removed from computer.
RestoreReturns a file in the Recycle Bin to its original location.
You cannot restore deleted files that were not moved to the Recycle Bin first.
Right-click file and select Delete to display Delete File dialog box.
File moved to Recycle Bin, not deleted
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Skills 17: Delete and Restore Files
File will be permanently deleted
Windows Vista cannot work with deleted files.
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Skills 17: Delete and Restore Files
Recycle Bin does not delete file until you click the Empty the Recycle Bin button.
Click column heading to display files in Recycle Bin in Date Deleted order.
While in Recycle Bin, files cannot be opened.
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Skills 17: Delete and Restore Files
Click the Restore this item button in Recycle Bin to move file to original location. File restored to
original location
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82Microsoft Windows 7 - Illustrated
• When you finish working on your computer, you must shut it down properly
• Shutting down the computer properly prevents loss of data and damage to Windows
• To shut down Windows and your computer:
– Save and close any open documents and files
– Close any open programs and windows
– Shut down Windows
Skills 18: Exiting Windows
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83Microsoft Windows 7 - Illustrated
Shutting down WindowsShutting down Windows
Skills 18: Exiting Windows
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84Microsoft Windows 7 - Illustrated
Options for Ending a Windows 7 SessionOptions for Ending a Windows 7 Session
Shut DownShut Down Completely shuts down a computerCompletely shuts down a computer
Log OffLog Off Closes all windows, programs, and documents, Closes all windows, programs, and documents, logs off your user account, and displays the logs off your user account, and displays the Welcome screenWelcome screen
RestartRestart Shuts down your computer and then restarts itShuts down your computer and then restarts it
Switch UserSwitch User Locks your user account and displays the Welcome Locks your user account and displays the Welcome screen so that another user can log on their accountscreen so that another user can log on their account
LockLock Locks your user account, then displays Locks your user account, then displays the Welcome screen (same as Lock button )the Welcome screen (same as Lock button )
SleepSleep Saves your work, turns off the monitor, then Saves your work, turns off the monitor, then reduces power usage to all hardware so your reduces power usage to all hardware so your computer appears off (same as Power button )computer appears off (same as Power button )
HibernateHibernate Saves your work, then turns off your computerSaves your work, then turns off your computer
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Congratulations
• You have now completed all Skillsfor Windows 7