GETTING STARTED WITH WINDOWS 95

The first part of our exercise will be to become familiar with the Windows 95 platform. This requires extensive use of the mouse on different buttons, pull down menus, and bars.

We will perform the following.

1. Turn on the machine

2. Click and hold on the start button (use the left mouse button)

3. Double Click on an My Computer Icon (use the left mouse button)

4. Click and hold and open a new Word Document

5. Identify the following in the Word Document window

• sizing buttons
• toolbar
• menu bar
• title bar
• mouse pointer
• minimize button
• maximize button
• close button
• start button
• taskbar
• word button

6. Practice the following activities with the mouse

• click
• double click
• drag
• point
• right click

7. Start a program

8. Moving and resizeing windows

• minimize
• maximize
• close
• increase size of window by dragging edges

9. Using scroll bars

• up scroll bar
• down scroll bar
• scroll arrows

10. Menus and dialog box

• elements dialog boxes

11. Using icons for specific functions (redundancy of windows)

• called toolbars

12. Using help

13. Shutting down the machine

14. Using a password

15. Can also use keyboard to perform tasks (hard to remember)

Optional assignment. Do the concepts review on page 23-24. Answers may be found here

GO TO MIS HOMEPAGE

For more practice, refer to the Microsoft Windows 95 workbook. Unit 1 covers the tasks illustrated above in greater detail

This page was created by David Lewis on 6/18/97

This page was last modified on 7/3/97