Microsoft Windows XP
Introduction
 

Course Description

This class is for people who are relatively new to computer work. If you have little or no experience using a mouse or working with the earlier version of Windows you should enroll in this Introduction to Windows XP class. If you have experience with DOS-based (keyboard-based) software programs, you will quickly realize that Windows XP has a different operating strategy. Windows XP has a graphical user interface (GUI). GUI means that Windows XP operates visually, rather than verbally.

For example, instead of selecting word-based commands from a menu, you might point to a picture of a disk or a printer to do a task. It sounds so simple, you may wonder why you need training at all. In our experience, most people need a little “jump-start” into the world of Windows XP. Windows XP Introduction is a four-hour class.

Content

• Understand basic personal computer components

• Define a network

• Identify the benefits of Windows XP

• Identify Desktop components

• Use the mouse to operate Windows XP

• Navigate the Start menu

• Activate online help

• Identify window controls

• Move and size a window

• Use the Taskbar

• Manipulate multiple windows

• Modify object properties

• Use dialog boxes

• Use scroll bars and drop-down arrows

• Modify display properties

• Use the control panel to modify the mouse properties

• Create and save a document

• Open and print a document

• Copy and paste information from one

application to another

• View resources with My Computer

• Delete and restore files

• Learn what to do if your computer freezes