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Windows XP Operating System

Course Length:  5 Classes, 2 hours each
Prerequisites:  Mouse and Keyboarding Experience
 
Overview
This class is presented in a lecture/demonstration format, with moderate hands-on activities.  Textbook and handouts are used.

Intended for persons who want to learn how to use the Windows XP Operating System.  An operating system controls the hardware of your computer and interprets the instructions from your software and operating system to the hardware.  Windows XP uses a graphical user interface, which allows you to get up and running through the use of pictures and graphics.  Windows XP offers multitasking and a consistent look and feel across programs designed to run in Windows.

Course Outline and Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
  • Start Windows, use the mouse, identify the elements of a desktop and window, use the Menu bar, Dialog boxes, and the Help System, and exit the Windows program
  • Start applications, arrange application windows, maximize, minimize and restore a window, and close an application
  • Work with My Computer, My Documents, My Pictures
  • Arrange folder windows
  • Display file information, select files or folders, create new folders
  • Copy move, rename, delete, and recover files
  • Copy and paste text in windows application
  • View and save data in the Clipboard
  • Change the screen saver
  • Customize the desktop
  • Change mouse settings
  • Print a file

 

 

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