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Welcome to the Windows Tour
This tour will take you only a few minutes to complete,
and will help you get started with Windows.
Click a button to begin.
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| | | Exploring Your Disk
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| | | Finding a File
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| | | Switching Windows
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| | | Using Help
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Starting a Program
You can start programs easily by using the
Start button.
Click the Start button now.
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Point to Programs.
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You can find some of the programs that come
with Windows by opening the Accessories group.
Point to Accessories now.
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Notice all the programs on the Accessories menu.
To start WordPad, a word processing program,
click WordPad now.
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WordPad is now open.
You can use WordPad to write letters and other
documents.
Now close WordPad by clicking the Close button.
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Now you know how to open a program.
Try opening and closing Paint on your own.
Paint is another program that comes with
Windows.
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Exploring Your Disk
You can easily browse through the files and
folders on your computer. Just remember: to
find out what’s inside something, you
double-click it.
Double-click the My Computer icon now.
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The My Computer window shows you what’s on your
computer.
Now let’s see the contents of your hard disk.
Double-click the Hard Disk icon now.
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Your hard disk contains folders. Folders
contain files and other folders.
To find out what’s inside the To Do folder,
double-click it now.
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To work with a file, you must first select it.
After you select it, you can use commands
on the File or Edit menu.
Select the Parks file by clicking it now.
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Now click the File menu to see what you can
do with the Parks file.
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For example, if you wanted to delete this file,
you would click the Delete command on this
menu.
The Edit menu also contains commands you can
use on a file.
To see these commands, click the Edit menu.
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For example, to copy this file, you would click
the Copy command on this menu.
To close the Edit menu, click anywhere outside
the menu.
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Close the To Do folder by clicking the Close
button.
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Now find the July Report file in the Reports
folder.
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You have found the July Report file.
Now close all the open windows.
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Finding a File
Have you ever saved a document and not been
able to find it later? Windows makes it easy
to find your work.
To see how easy it is, click the Start button
now.
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Point to Find.
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Click Files Or Folders.
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In the Named box, you can type part of the
name of the file you are looking for or its
full name.
Click the Named box, and then type ’July
Report’.
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Click Find Now.
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Windows lists the files it found.
To see how you can work with a file after
Windows finds it, select the July Report file
by clicking it.
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Now click the File menu.
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Notice all the commands that are available.
Click Open.
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Now close July Report.
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Now begin a new search by clicking New Search.
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Confirm that you want to begin a new search by
clicking OK.
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Try finding, opening, and closing Letter to
Robert on your own.
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Now close WordPad.
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Switching Windows
Using Windows, you can easily switch back and
forth between open windows.
Two documents are now open.
Switch to the Letter document now by clicking
its button on the taskbar.
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To return to the flower drawing, click its
button on the taskbar.
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At times, you may want to temporarily clear a
window from your screen but still keep that
program running.
Click the Minimize button in the drawing
window now.
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Now minimize the letter by clicking the Minimize
button.
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Both programs are still running and available.
To bring back the flower drawing, click its
button now.
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Now minimize the drawing window.
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Using Help
You can easily get Help when you don’t know
what to do or if you need information about
using Windows.
To start Help, click the Start button now.
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Click Help.
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One way to find a topic is to use the Contents,
but the fastest way is to use the Index.
Click the Index tab.
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Let’s use the Index to find the Help topic
about changing the time on the clock.
Click in the white area beneath the number 1
and type ’time’.
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The list scrolls to match what you type.
To view the Help topic, click Display.
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Many procedures contain shortcut buttons
that help you get your work done faster.
Read this Help topic. When you are ready,
click the button in step 1.
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The window for changing the date and time
appears.
The Help window always stays on top. You can
either keep the window open, move it to the
side, and follow the steps, or close it.
Close the Help Window by clicking the Close
button.
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Windows has another kind of Help. In any
window that contains a question-mark button,
you can see a definition of any item in the
window.
To see a definition, first click the
question-mark button.
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Notice that the pointer changes.
Move your pointer to the illustration of the
clock, and then click.
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The pop-up window contains information about
the area that you clicked.
To close the pop-up window, click inside it.
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Close the window by clicking Cancel.
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Don’t Forget...
You can double-click My Computer to see
the contents of your computer.
You can click the Start button to open
programs.
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