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Wait box. The screen saver will automatically return you to your work when you click or move your mouse or press any key unless you have password protected the screen saver. To apply a screen saver:
step 1: Open the Display Properties dialog box. step 2: Click the Screen Saver tab.
step 3: Select a screen saver from the Screen saver drop-down menu. step 4: Click the Preview button to preview the screen saver. Click OK.
You can protect your computer from unauthorized use by selecting On resume, display welcome screen option.
Changing the computer’s theme
Themes are simply collections of settings: You can save your favorite screen saver and desktop background, for example, as one theme, letting you switch easily between different themes.
View desktop icons:
To arrange icon size
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Change desktop icons:
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Understanding parts of a Windows:
Closing a Window:
Closing a window ends a program or closes a file or folder.
To close a window:
Click the Close button on the title bar.
Click on the program or folder icon on the title bar. From the pop-up menu, select
Close.
Press Alt+F4
Minimizing a Window:
Minimizing windows is useful if you need to view the desktop or just want to temporarily hide the open window. Minimizing a window displays the window in the taskbar as a button. Most common ways to minimize an open window are:
Click the minimize button on the title bar
Click on the program or folder icon on the title bar. From the pop-up menu, select minimize.
Maximizing a Window:
Some programs, such as word processors and Web browsers, are easier to work with and fill the entire screen. To enlarge a window to fill your computer screen, click the Maximize button.
To maximize a window:
Click the Maximize button on the title bar
Click on the program or folder icon on the title bar, from the pop-up menu, then select Maximize.
Double click the title bar.
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Restoring a Window:
Restoring a window puts that maximized or minimized window back to its previous size. To restore a window:
Click the Restore Down button on the title bar.
Click on the program or folder icon on the title bar, from the pop-up menu, then select Restore.
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Moving a Window:
Click and drag the window title bar to the position you want.
Click on the program or folder icon on the title bar. From the System menu (Program icon), select Move. Using keyboard arrow keys move the window to the position you want then press Enter. If you want to cancel moving press Esc.
Switching Between Windows (ALT+TAB)
You can have several programs or windows open and running simultaneously, but you can only work in one window at a time. The window you’re working with is called the active window and always appears on top of any other windows that you have open.
To switch between open windows:
Click the program button on the taskbar.
Click on any part of the window you want it to appear in front.
Press and hold down the Alt key and press the Tab key to display the task list. Repress the Tab key until the program you want is selected, then release the Alt key.
You can cycle through items in the order they were opened using Alt+Esc keys
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Arranging windows
When you have several windows or programs open, you can have Windows 7 automatically arrange them for you, instead of manually resizing and pushing them around. Windows can organize your windows in three ways:
Right click on empty area of the taskbar and select one of these options:
1.Cascade windows
2.Show windows stacked
3.Show windows side by side
Cascade windows
Show windows stacked
Show windows side by side
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Start menu
You can open the Start menu by clicking the Start button. Start menu lets you easily access the most useful items on your computer. All Programs item opens a list of programs currently installed on your computer. Programs are added to the most frequently used programs list above All Programs item when you use them.
The Windows 7 Start menu works great — until you’re hankering for something that’s not listed on the menu or something you rarely use is just getting in the way.
To add a favorite program’s icon to the Start button’s menu, right-click the program’s icon and choose Pin to Start Menu from the pop-up menu. Windows copies that icon to your Start menu’s top left column. (From there, you may drag it to the All Programs area.)
To purge unwanted icons from the Start menu’s left column, right-click them and choose either Unpin from Start Menu or Remove from This List. (Removing an icon from the Start menu doesn’t remove the actual program from your computer; it just removes one of many push buttons that launch it.)
The Start menu buttons
The Start menu (shown in Figure 2-5) comes conveniently split into two sides: one filled with icons, the other with words. The left side constantly changes, always listing the icons of your most frequently used programs. Your most oft-accessed program eventually resides a top the stack.
The Start menu’s right side, by contrast, never changes. Instead, it lists these places, each one leading to a special spot in Windows: If you find Start menus exciting, you’ll love the upcoming “Customizing the Start menu” section, which explains how to rearrange your entire
Start menu.
Your Name: The name of your user account appears at the Start menu’s top-right corner. Click here to see a folder containing your most commonly opened folders: Downloads, My Documents, Favorites, Links, My Pictures, My Music, and My Videos.
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Documents: This command quickly shows the contents of your Documents library, stressing the importance of storing your work here.
Pictures: Click here to see your stored digital photos and images. Each picture’s icon is a thumbnail image of your photo. Not seeing images of your photos? Press the Alt key, click the View menu, and choose Large Icons.
The Desktop and Other Mysteries
Music: Store your digital music here so that Media Player can find and play it more easily.
Games: Windows 7 offers many of the same games as Windows Vista, including a decent chess game. Microsoft left out InkBall but brought back Internet Checkers and Internet Backgammon, which let you compete with other players worldwide.
Computer: This option displays your computer’s storage areas: folders, disk drives, CD drives, digital cameras, flash drives, networked PCs, and other places that hide your Most Wanted items.
Control Panel: This bundle of switches lets you adjust your computer’s oodles of confusing settings.
Devices and Printers: This lists your printer, monitor, mouse, and other attached gadgets to make sure they’re working properly. The ones with a yellow exclamation point icon need some fixing, so right-click them and choose Troubleshoot.
Default Programs: Click here to control which program steps in when you open a file.
Here’s where you tell Windows to let iTunes handle your music instead of Media Player, for example.
Help and Support: Befuddled? Click here for an answer.
Shut Down: Clicking here turns off your PC. Or, click the icon’s little arrow for Switch
User, Log Off, Lock, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate options.
Search box: Conveniently placed directly above the Start button, this area lets you find files by typing a bit of their name or contents — a few words in an e-mail or a document, the name of a program or song, or nearly anything else. Presses enter, and Windows 7 quickly dredges it up for you.
Customizing the Start menu
1. Right-click the Start button and choose Properties. The Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box appears.
2. On the Start Menu tab, at the top, click the Customize button Windows 7 shows you the Customize Start Menu dialog box.
3. Add or remove items, or change the way they behave, by selecting or deselecting the appropriate check boxes.
4. When you’re done, click the OK button twice
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Taskbar:
Resting lazily along the desktop’s bottom edge, the taskbar lists the programs and files you currently have open, as well as icons for a few favored programs. (Point at a program’s icon on the taskbar to see the program’s name or perhaps a thumbnail photo of that program in action.)
The biggest new trick in Windows 7 could be its redesigned taskbar, so pull in your chair a little closer. Whenever you run more than one window on the desktop, there’s a big problem:
Programs and windows tend to cover up each other, making them difficult to locate. To make matters worse, programs like Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word can each display several windows apiece. How do you keep track of all the windows?
Windows 7’s solution is the taskbar — a special area that keeps track of all your running programs and their windows. The taskbar lives along the bottom of your screen, constantly updating itself to show an icon for every currently running program. It also serves as a dock for your favorite programs that you want to have one click away.
Rest your mouse pointer over any of the taskbar’s programs to see either the program’s name or a thumbnail image of the program’s contents.
Making Windows start programs automatically many people sit down at a computer, turn it on, and go through the same mechanical process of loading their oft-used programs. Believe it or not, Windows 7 can automate this task. The solution is the Startup folder, found lurking in the Start button’s All Programs menu.
When Windows 7 wakes up, it peeks inside that Startup folder. If it finds a program lurking inside, it immediately tosses that program onto the screen. To make your favorite programs wake up along with Windows 7, follow these steps:
1.Click the Start button and choose All Programs.
2.Right-click the Start menu’s Startup icon and choose Open. The Startup icon, which lives in the Start menu’s All Programs area, opens as a folder.
3.While holding down the right mouse button, drag and drop any of your favorite programs or files into the Startup folder, then choos Create Shortcuts here. Windows 7 automatically places shortcuts to those items inside the Startup folder.
4.Close the Startup folder. Now, whenever you turn on your PC and log on to your user account, Windows 7 automatically loads those programs or files so that they’ll be waiting for you.
From the taskbar, you can perform powerful magic on your open windows, as described in the following list:
To play with a program listed on the taskbar, click its icon. The window rises to the surface and rests atop any other open windows, ready for action.
Whenever you load a program, its name automatically appears on the taskbar. If one of your open windows ever gets lost on your desktop, click its name on the taskbar to bring it to the forefront.
To close a window listed on the taskbar, right-click its icon and choose Close from the popup menu. The program quits, just as if you’d chosen its exit command from within its own window. (The departing program gives you a chance to save your work before it quits and walks off the screen.)
Traditionally, the taskbar lives along your desktop’s bottom edge, but you can move it to any edge you want. (Hint: Just drag it from edge to edge. If it doesn’t move, right-click the taskbar and click lock the Taskbar to remove the check mark by its name.)
If the taskbar keeps hiding below the screen’s bottom edge; point the mouse at the screen’s bottom edge until the taskbar surfaces. Then right-click the taskbar, chooses Properties, and removes the check mark from Auto-hide the Taskbar.
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The new taskbar has ditched the Quick Launch toolbar — a small strip near the Start button that contained icons for your favorite programs. Instead, you can add your favorite programs directly to the taskbar: Right-click the favored program’s icon and choose Pin to Taskbar. The program’s icon then lives on the Taskbar for easy access, just as if it were running. Tired of the program hogging space on your taskbar? Right-click it and choose Unpin This Program from Taskbar Switching to different tasks from the taskbar’s Jump Lists The new, improved taskbar in Windows 7 doesn’t limit you to opening programs and switching between windows. You can jump to other tasks, as well, by right-clicking the taskbar’s icons.
Notification area
Minimize Windows: Always in view, this small strip instantly minimizes all open windows when you click it. (Click it again to put the windows back in place.)
Time/Date: Click the time and date to fetch a handy monthly calendar and clock. If you want to change the time or date, or even add a second time zone, click the Time/Date area and choose Change Date and Time Settings.
Media Center Recording: The glowing red circle means Media Center is currently recording something off the television.
Media Center Guide Listings: Media Center is downloading new TV listings automatically.
Safely Remove Hardware: Before unplugging a storage device, be it a tiny flash drive, a portable music player, or a portable hard drive, click here. That tells Windows to prepare the gadget for unplugging.
Action Center: Windows wants you to need to do something, be it to click a permission window or install or turn on an antivirus program.
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Network: This appears when you’re connected to the Internet or other PCs through a network. Not connected? A red X appears over the icon.
Volume: Click this ever-so-handy little speaker icon to adjust your PC’s volume, (Or double-click the word Mixer to bring up a mixing panel. Mixers let you adjust separate volume levels for each program, letting you keep Media Player’s volume louder than your other programs’ annoying beeps.)
Windows Problem Reporting: When Windows runs into trouble, this icon appears; click it to see possible solutions.
Customizing the taskbar
Windows 7 brings a whirlwind of options for the lowly taskbar, letting you play with it in more ways than a strand of spaghetti and a fork.First, the taskbar comes preloaded with three icons next to the Start menu: Internet Explorer (your Web browser), Windows Explorer (your file browser), and Media Player (your media browser). Like all your taskbar icons, they’re movable, so feel free to drag them to any order you want.To add more programs to the taskbar, drag and drop a program’s icon directly onto the taskbar. Or, if you spot a favored program’s icon on your Start menu, right-click the icon and choose Pin to Taskbar from the pop-up menu. For even more customization, right-click a blank part of the taskbar, and choose Properties. The
Taskbar and start Menu Properties window appears, as shown in Figure.
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Lock the Taskbar
Clicking here locks the taskbar in place, keeping you from changing its appearance. You can’t drag it upward to make room for more icons, for example. Lock it, but only after you’ve set up the taskbar to suit your needs
Auto-Hide the Taskbar
Selecting this option makes the taskbar automatically hide itself when you’re not near it.
(Point your cursor at the taskbar to bring it back up.) Leave this option unchecked to keep the taskbar always in view.
Gadgets:
Windows 7 ditches the Sidebar but keeps the gadgets, letting them roam freely on the desktop. To add a gadget to your desktop, right-click a blank part of the desktop and choose Gadgets. displaying Windows 7’s stock gadgets: A calendar, clock, currency exchange rate tally, puzzle, and other items.
Drag a gadget from the Gadget window onto your desktop, and it sticks, ready for viewing.
Don’t spot a suitable gadget? Click Get More Gadgets Online to visit gadget nirvana: A Web site acked with thousands of free gadgets, ready for the picking. Unlike the built-in gadgets, which slide onto your desktop, the ones on the Web must be downloaded and installed like any other program.
Feel free to position your gadgets anywhere you’d like on your desktop. Or don’t use them at all — they’re optional.
To change a gadget’s settings — to choose which photos appear in your Slide Show Gadget, for example — point at the gadget and click the tiny wrench icon that appears along its right edge. To remove a gadget completely, click the little X, instead.
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