Windows Basic

Identify the parts of the userinterfaceand of

a window
Start and shut down Windows
Use the mouse to click, double-click, right
click, and drag
Open an application and close it
Move, resize, minimize, maximize, and
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Concepts /Ideas:
Windows uses aGUI (Graphical User
Interface)so almost everything can be
done using mouse clicks on icons and
buttons or combinations of keys on the
keyboard. You can see what you are doing.
When you have a physical keyboard
available, you will find it useful, less tiring,
and often faster to use those odd
combinations of keys.

The Window
Awindowis arectangular areaon
the desktop which usually contains
a number of standard parts. But it
does not have to have any of the
standard parts. The illustration
shows several windows: a card
game window, an Explorer window,
aWordwindow, and a dialog
window, often called adialog
box(regardless of its shape or size).
The only part that they all have is

Parts of a Window

 Title Bar
TheTitle barof an application window
shows the title of the current document and
the name of the application.

Right end of Title bar

On the right end of the Title bar are buttons
to minimize the window to the Taskbar,
maximize the window to cover the whole
Desktop, and to close the window.

 Status Bar
The bottom of a window contains the Status Bar. It displays
messages about the status of the program. For example, it
might say "Saving document" during the saving process
and then "Done" when it is finished. The example from
Win7's Paint shows which brush is selected at the left, the
size of the current image in the middle, and has a slider to
change the zoom display for the window. What you see in
the Status Bar will vary with the type of window.

The diagonal lines in the corner of the Status Bar mean that the
window can be resized by dragging its edges.

 Document
The main area of the application
window shows the active
document. For a word processing
program this could be a letter, a
brochure, or a report. For a
graphics programs it would be a
picture. For a browser it would be a
web page.

Scroll Bars

scroll barsfor the width or the height of the

document, or both, if necessary. You change what part of the document is showing in
the window by dragging thescroll boxor by clicking thescroll arrowor by clicking
in the scroll bar itself.
indows that are too small to show the whole document will have

The size of the scroll box in many applications is in proportion to how much of the document is showing.
So, if half the document is visible, the scroll box will be half of its maximum length in the window

Using a Mouse
Before you can explore Windows much, you must know
how to use yourmouse. Your mouse is apointing
device. You use it to point to things on the computer
screen. Other pointing devices like touch pads and
game controllers are described in the lesson Computer
Basics: Input:Pointing Devices.
A mouse has at least two buttons - left and right. Most
have a middle button or ascroll wheelbetween the
left and right buttons. Some mice have several other
buttons that can be programmed for special functions,
especially for games.
The normal shape for the mouse pointer is an arrow

What You Do with a

Mouse
Move the pointer Moving the mouse around moves the mouse pointer/cursor on the
screen.
Click

Press a mouse button and release it. Usually the left button.

Double-click

Press a mouse button twice quickly.

Right click

Press the right mouse button and release it.

Drag

Hold a mouse button down while moving the mouse. Usually what the
mouse pointer was over on the screen will move or be highlighted when
you drag.

Scroll

Rolling the wheel that some mice have will move the document up and
down in the current window.

Pointer Shapes
The shape of the pointer
changes depending on where it
is and what is happening. The
term cursor is used for the shape
that shows where your typing
will appear. You can position the
cursor by clicking in a spot in a
document. So the pointer and
cursor work together, but are
not quite the same thing.
The hand shape
usually
means that the pointer is over a
link, like on a web page.

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This group of keys usually found at the right side of the

keyboard, resembles the keys on a calculator.

Alphanumeric Keys
Numeric Keypad

Querty Keyboard

This is a long bar beneath the letters used to insert

a blank Space between words.
Control Keys
Spacebar

Caps Lock

Press this key to return to the original instruction. You

can press Esc to quit a task you are performing.

Escape Key
Spacebar

Caps Lock

This key is used to lock into the uppercase alphabet mode.

Press Caps Lock to change the case of all letters you type.
Press the key again to return to the original case.

Control Keys
Caps Lock

Escape Key

This key is used to enter uppercase characters. Press this

key in combination with another key to type an uppercase
letter.

Control Keys
Shift Key

Caps Lock

Used to move the insertion point (cursor) inside

documents.
Left - Right - Up - Down

Arrow Keys
Spacebar

Caps Lock

An alternative to right-clicking of an item or file.

Control Keys
Menu Key

Shift Key

It consist the letters of the alphabet, punctuations,

and other symbols in where the user will be able to
encode his word documents.
Numeric Keyboard
Querty Keyboard

Alphanumeric Keyboard

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ANSWER KEY

Numeric Keypad
Spacebar
Escape Key
Caps Lock
Shift Key
Arrow Keys
Menu Key
Querty Keyboard