Windows XP Intro

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Windows XP Intro

• Whats familiar
• Whats new
• The Taskbar
• The Start Menu

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The New Look

• Windows has had a makeover for XP
• Updated graphics
• Clearer Text especially on Flat panel LCD screens
  (like those on your new systems)
• Task-oriented interface Copy, move or delete
  files and folders conveniently
• A preview

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Windows 98 Desktop
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Windows XP Desktop
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Managing Files in Windows 98
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Managing Files in Windows XP
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Improved User Interface

• New ways to look at your files and folders
• More convenient ways of viewing graphics,
  multimedia
• Easier to organize your display
• My Documents and My Computer now Task-oriented
• A left pane presents tasks varying according to
  what you select on the right
• Easier file and folder management

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Familiar Features

• For the user, Windows XP is not a radical break
  with Windows past
• You can still do almost everything as you used to
• New possibilities save time
• Many improvements under the hood
• More stable programming core
• Based on Windows NT/ Windows 2000 architecture

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Shutting Down

• Use the Start button at the lower left of the
  screen as usual
• Now the Shut Down button is immediately above for
  you to click.

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Shut Down Choices
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New Shut Down Choices

• Log off
• Security precaution Brings up Login screen
• Breaks your connection to the network
• Network files (H drive)
• Printers
• Visitors cant get into your computer
• Use when you go away from your computer briefly
• Use of you share a computer with others

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New Shut Down Choices

• Hibernate
• Preserves everything you were doing when you
  hibernated
• Turns computer off after
• Restores everything when you restart
• Speeds up restart
• Pressing power button activates
  Hibernate! (Dont try this at home)

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The Taskbar Familiar features

• Many of the Taskbars features are the same as
  they were in Windows 95/98
• The Start Button and Clock still appear
• A running programs icon appears on the taskbar.
• When you minimize a program, its icon remains on
  the Taskbar to remind you that its running.
• To restore a program to its last size when it is
  minimized, click its Taskbar icon.

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The Taskbar
Quick Launch ToolbarClick icons to start programs
Double-click to view/change clock and calendar

• View Clock / Calendar as usual
• Quick Launch toolbar helps keep a clean desktop
• To activate Quick Launch
• Right-click an empty area of the Taskbar
• Click Toolbars gt Quick Launch
• To populate Right-drag Start menu icons to
  toolbar and choose Copy

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The Taskbar Improvements

• Open 1 3 documents in an Office program like
  Word
• One icon appears for each document
• Open (roughly) 4 documents Their 4 icons
  collapse into one
• To switch documents
• Click to open the icon
• Select the doc you want

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The Start menu

• The Start menu serves the same functions as it
  did in Windows 95/98, and more
• Click the Start button as usual to open the Start
  menu
• From the Start Menu, click All Programs get to
  any program on your system.

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Start Menu Familiar features
Click any entry with a right-pointing arrow to
open another menu

• Open several layers of cascading menus this way.
• Tip Move the cursor through shaded areas to open
  cascading menus. It takes some hand-eye
  coordination!

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Start Menu New configuration

• Programs on the left
• Important computer locations and resources on the
  right

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Start Menu Right Column

• Quickly open the My Computer or My Documents
  windows
• Get back to one of the documents youve edited
  most recently.
• Change many aspects of your computer, from the
  look of your opening screen to the computers
  date and time zone in Control Panel

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Start Menu Right Column (2)

• Set which printer youd prefer to print to
  regularly and control other print options from
  the Printers area
• Look up any Windows feature in Help and Support
• Click Search to find a document by name or by any
  phrase it contains

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Start Menu Left Column

• Pinned programs area
• These programs always appear at the top of the
  Start menu.
• Recent program list
• Displays program icons only after you use them.
• Changes dynamically as you use different programs.

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Start Menu Pinning programs

• To add a program to the top of the Start Menu
• Click the All Programs button
• Find the programs entry
• Right-click the entryA shortcut menu pops up
• Click Pin to Start menu

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Start Menu Unpinning programs

• To remove a program from the top of the Start
  Menu
• Right-click the entryA shortcut menu pops up
• Click Remove from this list

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Desktop icons

• Part of the clean new look for Windows XP is a
  desktop with very few icons
• You can do with fewer icons because of Windows
  XPs features
• Pinned program icons on the Start Menu
• Quick Launch toolbar always accessible

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Creating Desktop icons

• You can still add a desktop icon for any program
• Click the Start button, then All Programs
• Locate the entry for the program you want to
  place on your desktop
• Right-click the entry(Click with the rightmouse
  button)
• A Menu pops up

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Desktop icons 2

• On the popup menu, click Send To gt Desktop
  (create shortcut)
• A Desktop icon for the program appears
• Double-click the icon to start the program.
• The programs entry also remains in the Start
  Menu structure.

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Window XP New features Summary

• Familiar but improved interface
• More stable program core
• New Graphics
• Clean Desktop

• Task-Oriented interface in My Documents and My
  Computer
• New Shut Down Options
• Stacked Taskbar icons
• Two-Column Start Menu
• Easy creation of Desktop Icons

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Further Information

• Where to look for more on Windows XP
• PowerPoint module and document on Managing files
  on TLC website (http//www.ccsf.edu/tlc - then
  click the Handouts link, Windows Software)
• VTC Multimedia Training modules on many aspects
  of XP
• Windows Help and Support on your Start menu