Windows 7 Intermediate

1. Windows 7 Intermediate Produced by Naveen Albert

2. Knowledge • When using Microsoft Windows, knowledge is key to having a successful time using your PC. • Now that you have some basic knowledge using Microsoft Windows, you can perform regular user tasks.

3. Common applications • What programs do you regularly use? • Take a moment to think about this. How and what you use your computer for will affect system performance as well as your performance.

4. Common Applications • These Applications come with your PC in Windows 7, free of charge: • Internet Explorer • WordPad • Games • Windows Media Player/ Windows Media Center • And more…

5. What Can I Install? • There are many free software that you can install on your PC for free. You can obtain these in DVD format or download them online. • Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office may or may not come with your PC. If it doesn’t, purchase the version that’s right for you.

6. Internet • Most companies and businesses use Internet Explorer. • Most common tasks are oriented to perform in Internet Explorer • IE 8 or later will come with your PC. If you install or have installed Service Pack 1 (Windows Update) onto your PC, you will have either IE 9, IE 10, or IE 11. • Since all the major internet browsers are free, you are not limited to using Internet Explorer.

7. How Do I Download Another Browser? • While downloading a web browser is free, you must be the Administrator to perform this action. • To download a web browser, go online and search for the web browser to upgrade or install a version of the web browser. • Major web browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. You can also download Opera and Safari.

8. Internet Explorer • Internet Explorer looks very similar to Windows Explorer. • You should note that Internet Explorer favorites are stored on your computer in the Local Drive. You can view them by going to: C:\Users\(Your Username)\Favorites

9. What Is the Administrator/UAC • By now, if you do not already know, you might be wondering the purpose that an Administrator serves on a computer. • User Account Control (UAC) is a program in Windows Vista and later that prevents system changes to your computer. Whenever a user tries to make a change on the computer that will affect the system, the UAC prompt comes up and asks for the Administrator password. • You can disable UAC as Administrator, but it is not recommended.

10. Windows Explorer • Windows Explorer has existed in every version of Windows since Windows 95, when it was introduced in 1995. • Windows Explorer in Windows 7 is new and revamped, and looks similar to Internet Explorer 8. • Windows Explorer is pinned to the Taskbar by default. If you click on it, ‘Libraries’ will open by default.

11. Using Windows Explorer • If you can’t locate or open Windows Explorer, search for ‘windows explorer’ in the Start Menu. • The left hand bar is called the Navigation pane. This shows all system drives connected to your computer as well as favorites, Libraries, Home groups (not in Windows Starter), and Networks.

12. Navigation Pane • In the Navigation Pane, you can add or remove Favorites. What Is A Favorite? • If there is a location on your PC you visit often in Windows Explorer, you can pin it by going into the folder you visit and then right-clicking Favorites and selecting ‘Add current location to Favorites’.

13. Windows Explorer Address Bar • The Windows Explorer (WE) address bar might seem useless at first, but you can make a distinct comparison: it’s like the web address in the URL bar in a web browser. • If you click in the Address Bar, you’ll notice the text will highlight and turned from parent folders separated by arrows to a long string of text separated by this symbol: \

14. WE Address Bar • This is helpful, because you can paste locations into your computer like this. • For example, pasting ‘C:\Users\(Your Username)\Favorites’ will open your Internet Explorer Favorites. • Note that whenever pasting an address from a PowerPoint like this or from the Internet into WE on your computer, they will include quotes around the text and also features (your username here), or something similar behind Users). This is because (obviously), your username must replace this text. Delete ‘your username’ and fill in your username.

15. Libraries • Libraries were first introduced in Windows 7 • Libraries group collections of similar files together on your computer. • You can visit Libraries by opening Windows Explorer and selecting Libraries from the Navigation Pane. A few Libraries are already pre-created and ready for use.

16. The Local Drive… and your User Account • You may have noticed a lot of things connected to your user account, such as Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, and the storage location for most offline applications. • You can visit it by going to ‘C:\Users\(Your Username)\

17. Disc Drives • Note that if the Local disc or system disc is not C:, you should replace it accordingly. However, the majority of PCs have C:\ noted as the Local drive. If you have one disc on your computer, then it will be C: • Windows letters the discs upon the installation of Windows. When Windows installs, it will configure each disc with a letter. When you plug a USB drive into your computer, the USB will be given a letter that will it will use every time in that computer. This is why USB drives may have different drive letters in different computers.

18. Explore… • As you may have noticed along the way, while following along with this PowerPoint, we haven’t covered everything. You might see additional ‘Properties’ menus or more things that appear when you Right-click that we haven’t discussed. It would take more than a few 25 slide PowerPoints to cover everything you can do with Windows and every way to do it, so the best way to find out how to do something or what something does is to do it yourself!