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The Basics of Windows XP For Beginners P3!
Window Xp Support Tip
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* The Properties?
* The Control Panel?
* The Wizard?

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The Properties?
Window Xp Support Tip
By: WinXpFix.com

 

The Properties? All object in Windows that's hardware components of your computer, software programs, files, and icons all have "properties", the settings that affect how all object works on your computer. Example, a file may have properties such as a filename, size, and date last modified.

To display the properties, you need to right-click the item and choose Properties from the menu that appears. You see a dialog box with a title that includes the word "Properties."

Tabs - If the object has too many properties to fit in a dialog box, you will see tabs run along the top of the dialog box. You can click a tab to see the settings on that tab. You may change some of the settings, depending on the type of object. WinXpFix.com

Example, to see the properties of the Windows desktop, right-click the desktop in a place where it is not covered by icons or windows. You see the Display Properties dialog box. When you have finished looking at the properties shown and possibly changing some of the properties that can be changed, click OK to save your changes or Cancel to cancel them, and exit the Properties dialog box.

 

Configuring Windows and Other Programs! To order for you to use Windows effectively, you need to configure it to work with all of your computer's hardware and also with other programs. You will encounter these concepts when you configuring Windows.

The Properties, are the settings for the many different objects in your computer's software and the hardware.

The Control Panel, which enables you to see and change many Windows settings

The Wizards, this is a programs that help to automate the processes of installing software, hardware, and helping to configuring them. WinXpFix.com

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The Control Panel
Window Xp Support Tip
By: WinXpFix.com

 

The Control Panel? The Control Panel, is a control window that displays icons for a number of programs that helps you to control your Windows computer, Windows, and all of the software you have installed on you computer. All of these programs will help you see and also change the properties of many of the parts of Windows system.

To take a look at the Control Panel, you need to click on Start > Control Panel. Windows XP comes with a newly redesigned window with categories of tasks, Windows now calls this a Category View. If you click on a category in the Control Panel, Windows will displays a list of tasks in that category.

If you Prefer to used to the "Classic" Windows 98, Me, Control Panel icons, click on the Switch To Classic View option. You will see most of the same old Control Panel icons that had appeared in earlier versions of Windows. You need to double-click on them to run them. All of these icons also appear in the Category View, below the tasks. WinXpFix.com

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The Wizard
Window Xp Support Tip
By: WinXpFix.com

 

The Wizard? Windows XP, like so many other Microsoft programs, includes a wizard program that help step you through the process configuring something. Example, the New Connection Wizard leads you through the many steps required to set up a dial-up connection to the Internet.

The wizards include instructions for each step, it tells you what information you must provide and making suggestions regarding your choices. Most all wizards display many window of information and questions, most have Next, Back, and Cancel buttons at the bottom of each of the window.

You need to fill out the information requested by the wizard and then click on the Next button to continue. Click the Back button, to get back to a previous wizard window. Click the Cancel button, to exit the wizard window. If there's no next wizard screen, you will see a Finish button, so hit the Finish, when your Finish! WinXpFix.com

 

Using The Mouse Basics? A mouse is a device that you use to manipulate objects in Windows. As you move the mouse on it's pad, the mouse pointer on-secreen moves in tandem. The moues pointer, or simply pointer is the small symbol (such as a arrow) that moves on the screen when you move your mouse. The other indicator, is the cursor, which will usually appears as a blinking vertical line, it will shows when you type in text. WinXpFix.com

How to:

1. How to point to an object on the screen: move the mouse pointer directly over that object. That is, you point to an object when you are preparing to do something to it.

2. How to click an object to which your mouse pointer is currently pointing: you press the left mouse button once and quickly release it. You click an object to issue a command, open a program, or select an object.

3. How to right-click an object: point to it and then press and release the right mouse button. When you right-click an object, Windows and many applications display a menu called a context menu, which lists commands that pertain to that object.

4. How to double-click an object: you point to it and then press and release the left mouse button twice rapidly. Double-clicking is the standard method in Windows for starting an application or selecting an object from a dialog box and immediately closing the box. WinXpFix.com

5. How to drag an object from place to place: you first point to it and then click and hold down the mouse button don't release it yet. Next, you move the pointer in the directions you want to drag the object. When the pointer is in the position where you want the object to appear, you release the mouse button. Normally a drag operation involves the left mouse button.

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